Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 57

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 57

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 95 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 230 x 160 mm

Detailed Description
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 1 column in the first part. The second part is set in 2 columns.


  • Hand Description:
    The code consists out of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r- 55r ) is written by two French hands from the 13th century. The second part (ff. 56r- 95v ) was written in the 12th century by a single hand.
  • Provenance:
    Previous owner: P(etrus) Rogerii de Malomonte ( ) , monachus Case Dei. Bought in 1312. This can be seen in a note on f. 54v : «Iste liber est rotgerii de Malomonte [i.e. Clemens PP. VI] Monachi case dei. et decostitit xii solidos bonorum parisiensium Anno ab incarnacione domini M°.ccc°.xii°. die veneris Ante festum omnium sanctorum quem emit a bernardo [...] claramontensis diocesis exsequitoris [...]»; After the words "a bernardo" and "exsequitoris" some words are cut away.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1167
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics 1r - 55r
  • Incipit:
    Post hec autem dicendum de largitate, quid est...

  • Explicit:
    propter quid similantur leges in usu earum consuetudinibus. Incipiamus ergo et dicamus.

  • Note:
    A fragment of the Commentary beginning with the fourth Chapter. Book VI - X.

Anonymous Fragment 55v - 55v
  • Note:
    Some thoughts written down in French and Latin in 1293.

Anonymous Commentary on Cicero 's De inventione 56r - 95v
  • Incipit:
    In primis materia et intentio huius rhetoris, id est ...

  • Note:
    Ends abrupt.