Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Z. L. 250

Averroes, three Commentaries and De Substantia Orbis

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 101 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 330 x 218 mm

Detailed Description
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.


  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one librarian.
  • Provenance:
    In the De Anima commentary, f. 2r , we have a note by a later hand: " Averrois super libris de anima et de generatione et corruptione: liber B. cardin. Tusculan ".
    The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana dates this codex of cardinal Bessarion to 1468 .
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1119
  • Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli , Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Digessit et commentarium addidit Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli Vol. Tomus V, Venice (1872) , p. 12 [Z.L.250]
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 95v - 100v
  • Note:
    The text contains five tractates.

Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 72r - 86r
  • Explicit:
    Explicit comentum Averois super libro de generatione.

Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 1r - 70v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit comentum Averois super librum Aristotelis de anima. Deo gratias. Amen.

Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 86v - 88v
  • Incipit:
    [ Lacombe :] Incipit tractatus Averois de sensu et sensato ...
    [ Valentinelli :] Virtutes quidem sensibiles quaedam sunt de necessitate in esse animalis ... ...

Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 86v - 88v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 86v - 88v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 86v - 88v