Italy, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII. E. 19

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: ABC + 51 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 330 x 228 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Initials, as well as titles are omitted throughout the codex. Paragraph signs and chapter titles in red.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns, except for ff. 33r - 35v, where we have long lines.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one librarian.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century (1327)
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1007f.
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 72-73
Content
Al-Farabi De ortu scientiarum 33r - 34v
  • Incipit:
    Inquit princeps Abohali . Scias nichil esse preter substantiam et accidens ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et cuius quod accidit ei ex hoc, quod sunt ad hoc tantum. Explicit epistula Avicenne in assignanda causa ex qua orte sunt science philosophie, et quis est ordo earum in disciplinis, translata a magistro Gerardo Cremonensi in Tolecto de saraccinto in latinum. Deo gratias amen.
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear.
Anonymous Praefatio translatoris libri Avicennae De Anima 28v - 28v
  • Incipit:
    Reverendissimo Tolletane sedis archiepiscopo et yspaniarum primati, Advendeuth ishraelita philosophus ... iste liber dividitur ...
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear, the title is given according to Lacombe .
Anonymous De causa 34v - 34v
  • Incipit:
    Causa est cuius esse sequitur aliud ; causarum alia efficiens, alia materialis, alia finalis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quod in fine iudicii. Explicit de causis. Deo gratias.
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear.
Aristotle De animalibus 36r - 51v
  • Explicit:
    ... et quando volant sui pulli volat cum eius et dat eis ad ...
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scot . The text has a preface, but ends abruptly in the sixth book.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 34v - 35v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 28v - 28v
  • Note:
    At the bottom of f. 28v , Averroes' commentary on De Anima is referenced.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 32v - 33r
Avicenna De anima 1r - 28v
  • Incipit:
    [F. 1r :] Iam explevimus in primo libro verbum de hiis que sunt communia naturalibus ; cui consequenter adiunximus librum secundum qui est de cognitione corporum ...
    [F. 22r :] ... capitulum quintum in quo continetur quod adiecit Advenneth . Una ex dispositionibus que sunt cordis hominis.
  • Explicit:
    [F. 22v :] ... et hic est finis eius quod transtulit Avohannet ex capitolo illius libri ad hunc locum huius libri de anima ...
    [F. 28v :] Et post hunc sequitur liber de causa causarum.
Avicenna De caelo et mundo 28v - 32r
  • Incipit:
    Liber Avicenne de celo et mundo. Collectiones expositionum ab antiquis grecis in libro Aristotelis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ut non moveatur. Completum est capitulum in cuius complectione completus est liber. Laus sit creatori nature et largitori esse et creatori et sit pax et salus anime modeste et benigne. Amen.
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear.