Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4548
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Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4548, fol. x1, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-VA-VAT-BAV-Vat.lat.4548/page/1
Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4548
Middle Commentary on the Physics, tr. Balmes.
Physical Description
Material: Paper
Pages: 169 leaves
Leaves Format:not available
Dimensions:not available
Detailed Description
Foliation:
1-169.
A contemporary foliation done with the same ink as the text.
Condition Description:
The condition of the paper is bad, especially in the third third of the manuscript. The transparency of the pages makes it hard to read the text.
Decoration:
No decorations. Numbers of the chapters are given in the left margin.
Layout:
Text is set in 1 column.
About 30 lines to the page.
Hand Description:
The text is written by one hand. It is a autograph by
Abraham de Balmes
, as one can read on f.
1r
and
2r
.
Incipit liber primus de phisico auditu. Istius primi libri intentio prima est perscrutari de causa materiali communi omnibus entibus naturalibus.
Explicit:
Cum iam fecerimus expositionem illus ad plebem etate nostre adolescentie brevi epithomate. Nunc autem usus sum facere hanc expositionem perfectiorem sperans in deum perficere expositionem reliquorum librum
Aristothelis
. Sit dei nomen semper benedictum. Amen. Finis.
Note:
Translated by
Abraham de Balmes
. With a prologue by the translator on ff.
1r-
1v
. Some personal additions by Balmes marked with the words: "Ait interpres..", cf. ff.
58r
and
64v
.
Colophon:
Incipit paraphrasis
Averroys
in libros physicarum auscultationum interprete
Abramo de Balmes
de litio artium et medicine doctoris maximo.