Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2984

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2984

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 227 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 263 x 185 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Major initials in the Gallic way, with images of persons and scenes illustrating the text elegantly ornated, depicted in various colours. The minor initials are decorated with red or blue little lines. The first words of the tractates have their major letters depicted with coloured areas. Numbers of the books in red and blue in the top margin.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines.

    33 lines to the page up to f. 216r .

    About 38 - 44 lines to the page in ff. 217r - 227v .

    Ff. 216v and 222v are without script.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by a Gallic librarian.
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1233
Content
Aristotle Physica 1r - 60v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 6v - 6v
  • Note:
    These three fragments (book I, 79; book II, 53 and book II, 82; in consecutive order) are given in three glosses, all in the outer left margin, near the bottom of the main text. There are more similar-sized fragments of Averroes' commentary throughout the outer margins of the Physica.
Aristotle De generatione 61r - 79v
Aristotle De caelo 80r - 130v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 107v - 107v
  • Note:
    These fragments are given in three glosses or parts of glosses, respectively. The first fragment (f. 107v ; book II, 60) is in the upper right margin, the second (f. 114v ; book II, 111) in the middle of the outer left margin and the third (f. 127v ; book IV, 24) at the bottom of the inner left margin. There may be more fragments of Averroes' commentary throughout the De Caelo.
Aristotle Meteorologica 131r - 161v
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia 161v - 167r
  • Note:
    This is the translation of John of Seville .
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 167r - 169r
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 169r - 177v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 177v - 185v
Aristotle De plantis 185v - 197r
Aristotle Metaphysica 197v - 216r
  • Note:
    This is the old translation.
Aristotle De causis 217r - 222r
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 223r - 227v
  • Incipit:
    [I]n hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur [?] corpus celeste.
  • Explicit:
    ... destrueretur motus entium inferiorum.
  • Note:
    The text ends abruptly near the end of the fourth tractate.