Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 45

Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 45

In Metaphysicam

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: not available
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Initials are big and painted with various colours.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    Text of Aristoteles differs from text of the commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one hand.
  • Acquisition:
    The codex was a present given by Hieronymus de Sancta Sophia, a doctor artium from Padua, to Johannes Marchanova in 1450. Johannes, then, gave it as his heritage to the Paduan coenobium of St. John in Viridario. In 1782 the codex came to Venice in the Biblioteca S. Marci.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p. 1099
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 107v