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Incipit:
Quoniam quidem intellegere et scire...

Explicit:
Nullam habens magnitudinem. Explicit liber phisicorum Aristotelis .

Note:
Some quotes by Averroes ' Long Commentary on the Physics. Translated by William of Moerbeke .

Long Commentary on the Physics

Note:
Some quotes from the Long Commentary on the Physics, one can find a citation on f. 19r and at the end of Physica on f. 48v .

Metaphysica

Incipit:
Omnes homines natura scrie desiderant ... debentes ... eligimus...

Explicit:
... ut quidam dicunt neque hec esse principia. Explicit liber methaphisicorum Aristotelis secundum novam translationem.

Note:
Translated by William of Moerbeke .

Material: Parchment
Pages: I + 123 + I leaves
Leaves Format: not available
Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1031

Foliation:
Foliation from the 17th or 18th century: Paper in the beginning: I, then numbers from 1-123.
Collation:
14IV^112 + (VI-1)^123
Continous reclaimers.
Decoration:
On f. 49r Initial lines are written with white colour on red ground. Other beginnings of books are decorated with red or blue Fleuronné-initials, some with ornaments, spirals, filled with frog spawn, their ends painted with fishbones. Paragraphs and titles changing in red and blue.
Layout:
Text is set in 2 columns. The box with script has the measures

33-38 lines per column.
Hand Description:
Written by one hand in Tetualis libraria. Some glosses written in a cursive handwriting.
Provenance:
Manuscript of the University library. Title given in the catalogue: "Textus metaphysice et textus ethicorum in pergamento".

Dorothea Walz & Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Die historischen und philosophischen Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek (Cod. Pal. Lat. 921 - 1078), Wiesbaden (1999) , p.181 [Online link]
George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1194