Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2076

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2076

Averroes, Long Commentary on the Physics
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 290 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 315 x 215 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-126, 126a, 127-289.
    There is a foliation-mistake on f. 127r , where f. 126 is later counted a second time and marked with '126a'. The DARE-foliation offers the correct count of folios. The total count of is 290 and not 289 as Lacombe suggests, because he has obviously not seen through the whole manuscript.
  • Decoration:
    Initial letters of each book are painted in golden and other colours, ornated with persons, elongated in the margins with dragons and branches. Lesser initial letters are painted in blue, surrounded by red lines. Numbers of the books are given in the upper margin in red and blue. In comparison to the commentary the textus are given in taller letters using every second line.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

    About 48 lines to the commentary, about 25 lines to the textus using every second line.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one hand very neatly, maybe from England or France.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: England or France
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p. 1216f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 289v
  • Note:
    Textus: Just the Scotus -translation is given. Lemmata of the Vetus-translation given in the margin up to book VI. Prologue to Book I is missing, prologues to book III and VIII appear in a normal way.