Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 6765
How To Cite
Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 6765, fol. 1v, 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.6765/page/6
Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 6765
Averroes, Long Commentary on the Physics
Physical Description
Material: Parchment
Pages: I + 173 leaves
Leaves Format:not available
Dimensions: 380 x 235 mm
Detailed Description
Foliation:
Old foliation.
Decoration:
The first initial on f.
2r
is decorated with pictures of a teacher and his student. The other initials are decorated with humans and leaves in various colours, whereas the smaller ones are always blue and decorated in English manner with red lines.
In the margins we find twigs bearing birds, musicians, dogs and haunting boys.
The numbers of the books are given on top of the page in red and blue.
Layout:
Text is set in two columns.
About
60
lines to the page.
Aristotle
's textus is given in bigger letters than
Averroes
' commentary.
Hand Description:
Text is written by multiple hands.
History
Origin Date: Early 14th century.
Origin Place: England ?
George Lacombe ,
Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p. 1239
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