Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2079

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2079

Averroes-Manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 290 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 360 x 250 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-44, 44a, 45-64, 64a, 65-79, 79a, 80-132, 132a, 133-220, 220a, 221-285.
    The old foliation is wrong on five folios: Numbers 44, 64, 79, 132 and 220 are given twice (cf. ff. 44r and 45r , 65r and 66r , 81r and 82r , 135r and 136r , 224r and 225r ). All in all there are 290 folios and not 285 as Lacombe suggests. The DARE foliation offers the correct counting.
  • Decoration:
    Large initial letters in red and blue, decorated with tangled lines. Small initials always in blue. The number of the particular book is painted in red or blue on each page.
  • 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:
    Two scribes
    Most of the manuscript was written by one scribe from northern France.
    Ff. 287r- 289r are made from another scribe in the 14th century .
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: Northern France
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1217
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 200v
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation The prologues to books I and III are missing.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 201r - 212v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 213r - 287v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 288r - 290r
  • Incipit:
    Quod autem motus localis... Cum declaraverat quod motus circularis...
  • Explicit:
    ...Revertamur ergo ad verba Aristotelis .