Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4549

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4549

Elia del Medigo-Translations

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 58 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 312 x 220 mm

Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    This scan of the manuscript does not give the folios without script.
  • Decoration:
    No initials nor titles on the top of the pages.
  • Layout:
    The text is set in 1 column.


  • Hand Description:
    The code is worked out by one hand.
History
  • Origin Date: 16th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1238
  • Paul Oskar Kristeller , Iter Italicum. Accedunt alia itinera. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries Vol. Vol VI, London - Leiden - New York - København - Köln (1992) , p. 322a
  • Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino: Mirabile - Online Catalogue. Archivio digitale della cultura medievale. Digital Archives for Medieval Culture [description]
Content
Averroes Epitome De anima x - x
  • Note:
    cf. Salvador Gómez Nogales Epitome de anima Madrid 1985. Josep Puig Montada (ed.comm.) Eliahu del Medigo, traductor del epítome de Averroes «Acerca del Alma» «Ciudad (La) de Dios» 122 (2006) 713-29

Aristotle De proprietatibus elementorum 1r - 6r
  • Note:
    The translation is close to the one of Gerardus of Cremona . No script on ff. 6v- 10v .

Averroes De intellectu speculativo 11r - 18r
  • Incipit:
    Tractatus de intellectu speculativo a summa Commentatoris in tertium de anima
    Sed sermo de speculativo hac indiget declaratione...

  • Explicit:
    ...quod intellectus materialis est eternus
    Nam Aristoteles scripsit quod intellectus materialis est eternus

  • Note:
    Translated by Elia del Medigo . No script on ff. 18v- 20v .

Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus 21r - 57v
  • Incipit:
    Intendimus in hoc tractatu dare vias et ordines logicales proprios arti consideranti in naturis animalium

  • Note:
    De Animalibus tract. X - XIV = In De partibus animalium Libri I-IV. Ends abrupt around the beginning of book 4. cf. Ed. apud Iuntas, Tomus VI (1550), ff. 64r-90v.