Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Z. L. 232

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 334 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 307 x 215 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    We have small pictures on the first folio. There are no titles within the text. On top of the pages, very short abbreviations of the titles are depicted in alternating red and blue. Initials are either written with plain colours, or ornated.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines with spacious margins.


  • Hand Description:
    Text is splendidly written by one Gallic librarian.
  • Provenance:
    In the beginning and in the end we have: "Thomas notarius subscripsit".
    According to Lacombe , the codex originates from Cardinal Bessarion ( 1468 ).
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1114f.
  • Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli , Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Digessit et commentarium addidit Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli Vol. Tomus V, Venice (1872) , p. 3f. [Z.L.232]
Content
Aristotle Physica 1r - 84v
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 85r - 110v
Aristotle De anima 111r - 142r
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 142r - 155r
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 155r - 159v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 159v - 172r
Aristotle De motu animalium 172v - 180v
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 181r - 184v
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 184v - 199v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de iuventute et senectute, de expiratione et respiratione, et morte et vita.

Aristotle De causis 200r - 214v
  • Incipit:
    Omnis causa primaria plus est influens super causatum suum ...

  • Note:
    The text has a commentary. In the end, we have: "Expliciunt libri naturales scripti Cameraco--Deo gratias".

Aristotle De caelo 215r - 265r
Aristotle Meteorologica 265r - 320r
Aristotle De bona fortuna 320r - 322v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 323r - 334v