Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Z. L. 247

Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Z. L. 247

Averroes, Long Commentary on the Physics

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 122 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 416 x 260 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Titles in red. Greater initials are painted in different colours.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 65 lines to the page.

    The Aristotelian text is only written in lemmata and distinguished from the commentary by bolder letters.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one hand.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1118
  • Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli , Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Digessit et commentarium addidit Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli Vol. Tomus V, Venice (1872) , p. 32 [Z.L.247]
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 122v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit proemium Averois super libros phisicorum...

  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation The prologue to book VIII is missing.