Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 220
How To Cite
Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 220, fol. 272r, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-VA-VAT-BAV-Urb.lat.220/page/551
Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 220
Averroes-Manuscript
Physical Description
Material: Parchment
Pages: II + 417 leaves
Leaves Format:not available
Dimensions: 367 x 243 mm
Detailed Description
Decoration:
The initials are decorated with leaves and sometimes with persons and animals (
286r
,
297r
,
312r
,
312v
). Only Italian overshadowed colours are used, or red and blue decorations with red and violet lines.
Layout:
Text is set in two columns.
About
50
lines to the page.
Averroes
' Long Commentary on
Aristotle
's Physics:
Aristotle
's textus is given in bigger letters than
Averroes
' commentary.
Hand Description:
The code is worked out by serveral Italian librarians. The name of one scribe is written on f.
289v
: ... quod completus est per manus
Theodorici Theotonici
de
Erfordia
. Ff.
198r-
198v
are written by
Antonello de Aux
(cf. f.
198v
). Ff.
415v-
417v
are worked out by an humanistic hand.
Provenance:
In possession of
Fridericus dux Urbini
(around
1474
).
History
Origin Date: 14th century
Origin Place: Italy
Cosimus Stornajolo ,
Codices urbinates latini Vol. Tomus I. Codices 1-500, Rome (1902) , pp. 213-215
[220]
George Lacombe ,
Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1206 - 1207
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