Spain, Seville, Biblioteca Universitaria, A 330.154

Spain, Seville, Biblioteca Universitaria, A 330.154

Physica cum commentoAverrois

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 273 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 480 x 340 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    A square, golden surface on first page of the codex is prepared for an intial. Margins with decoration of strawberries and wild roses from the 15th century .
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    50 lines to the page.

    Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one hand in Gothic letters.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century.
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p. 831f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 273r
  • Incipit:
    Intentio mea in hoc sermone ...

  • Explicit:
    ... debemus transire.

  • Note:
    Textus: both translations (vetus and Scotus ) are given. The prologue to book III is missing.

  • Colophon:
    Hoc volumen comperavit Raphael de Marcatellis , Dei gratia episcopus Rosensis , abbas iuxta Gandavum , anno Domini 1492 .