France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 16109, fol. 2r, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-FR-PAR-BNF-lat.16109/page/4
Condition Description:
The manuscript is pale and sometimes confusing.
Decoration:
Spaces for decorated letters remain empty.
Layout:
Text is set in two columns.
Text and commentary differ in letter size.
Some spare traces of titles to the books, i.e. f.
5r
: α, and on the upper corners of the ff.
1r
-
5r
: "Incipit primus metaphsice". Commentary-chapters are not counted.
Hand Description:
Done by one hand in blackish letters.
History
Origin Date: 13th century
Origin Place:not available
George Lacombe ,
Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.561
Jörg Fauser ,
Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen
Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982) , p. 194
Averroes & Gion Darms ,
Averroes (Ibn Rušd). In Aristotelis librum II (α) Metaphysicorum commentarius. Die lateinische Übersetzung des Mittelalters auf handschriftlicher Grundlage mit Einleitung und problemgeschichtlicher Studie, Freiburg (1966) , 35
Aristoteles: Consideratio quidem in veritate difficilis est uno modo et facilis alio (f.
2r
) - Averroes: Quia ista scientia perscrutatur simpliciter, incepit notificare (f.
2r
)
Note:
The title says, this is the "Commentum Alberti supra librum metaphisice" above both coloumns. This is not correct.