Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 52

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 352 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 410 x 283 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    An initial depicts the figure of a philosopher and the left hand of the regent offering a fortified castle. On f. 189r we have six nude men, i.e. souls, the deprecated being brought forth from the lake to heaven.
  • Layout:
    Text is mostly set in two columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is, in most parts, diligently written by one hand.
  • Provenance:
    At the bottom of f. 1r , the same librarian, who wrote most of the text, noted: "Tibi Stephane de Provino hoc opus quod ego Michael Scotus dedi latinitati ex dictis Aristotelis sentencialiter coniungendo, et si aliquid Aristoteles incompletum dimisit de constitutione mundana in hoc libro recipiet eius supplementum ex libro Alpetraugii quem similiter dedi latinitati, etenim in eo exercitatus". According to Lacombe , the correct version of this dedication is: "Tibi Stephane de Provino hoc opus, quod ego Michael Scotus dedi latinitati ex dictis Aristotilis , specialiter commendo, et si aliquid Aristotiles incompletum dimisit de constitucione mundana in hoc libro, recipies eius supplementum ex libro Alpetraugii , quem similiter dedi latinitati, et es in eo exercitatus".
    To the dedication at the bottom of f. 1r , a later hand added: "Dominus Nicolaus Condis ... de Veneciis, die 11 oct. 1388. M. Cavolini de Ravenna".
    The codex came from the monastery S.S. Iohannis et Pauli to the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1101 - 1103
Content
Anonymous Vita Aristotelis 351r - 352v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de vita Aristotelis cum multis libris particularibus.
Aristotle De causis 344r - 351r
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de causis que sunt numero XXXII Deo gratias amen.
  • Note:
    The text has a commentary.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 1r - 186v
  • Incipit:
    Incipiunt commenta Averrois super libro primo de celo et mundo Aristotelis .
  • Explicit:
    Explicit commentum super librum de celo et mundo. Scriptor scripsisset bene citius si voluisset.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 315r - 321r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste...
  • Explicit:
    ... quia caret agente motum, et hec dicta sufficiant. Explicit tractatus Averoys commentatoris de substantia orbis.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 326r - 344v
  • Explicit:
    ... et motum octave spere. Explicit commentum de generatione et corruptione Averoys .
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 307v - 315r
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 189r - 295r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit commentum Averoys super primo de anima.
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de anima: hoc scripsi totum, pro pena da mihi potum.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 297r - 300r
  • Explicit:
    ... ista igitur summa [eorum] que quidem dicta sunt in hoc tractatu.
Averroes On Whether the Active Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it Is Clothed with the Body 324v - 326r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit quidam tractatus Averoys qualiter intellectus naturalis contingat intelligentie abstractae. Intencio nostra in hac dictione est quod habemus omnes vias claras ...
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear. Lacombe gives the title as: "De Intellectu Naturali".
Moses Maimonides Tractatus 321r - 324v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber Raby Moyse Ebrey philosophi de uno condicto quod non est corpus nec virtus in corpore. Preparatoria principia quibus indigetur ...
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 297r - 300r
  • Incipit:
    Quod autem dicit in fine istius tractatus ...
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 297r - 300r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 297r - 300r