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Long Commentary on the Physics

Note:
Textus: Scotus -translation Prologue (ff. 1r- 1v ) added by a hand from the 15th (?) century . After the Prologue (f. 1v ) 16 verses give a short information about the content of the eight books: Primus narrat opinata negat unum et innumerata... [octavus] hic motum fieri negat aut movens quoque moveri.

Long Commentary on the Physics

Note:
The supplement gives the missing text on ff. 130r , 166r and 168r .

Cuiusdam commentarii in Averrois in Physicam commentarium fragmentum perbreve

Incipit:
Nec est virtus in corpore sicut sensus est hoc actu, id est corpus vel virtus in corpore. Et tunc sequitur ultima conclusio...

Explicit:
...quod dictum est secundum equivocationem.

Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 246

Decoration:
The painter put titles, initials, etc. in the text. The Aristotelian text is highlighted by "Dicit Aristoteles " while the commentary is referred to by "Dicit commentator".
Layout:
Text is set in two colums.

About 55 lines to the page.

Averroes ' Long Commentary on Aristotle 's Physics: Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
Hand Description:
The code is written by one hand while the Prologue to the Physics was added later ( 15th (?) century ).
Provenance:
F. 168v : signatures of notaries as well as " Thomas notarius suscripsi - De Fantusiis notarius"
The code was bought in Venice in 1440 from Master Iohanne Marchanova "pro sua pecunia". Then, in 1467 , it was given via testament to the little Patavian abbey S. Iohannis in Viridario .
In 1782 , it came to the S. Marci Library in Venice . As Venice was sacked by the French, the inscripted sign on f. 173r says: " Bibliothèque Nationale ".

George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1111f.
Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli , Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Digessit et commentarium addidit Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli Vol. Tomus V, Venice (1872) , p. 32 [Cod. 34 membr. ; Lat.VI.246]