Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 10264

Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 10264

Averroes In physicam

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 168 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 330 x 235 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Modern foliation: 1-168.
  • Collation:
    7VI^84 + V^94 + 6VI^166 + I^168
    Signatures for the layers just in the first part of the manuscript.
  • Condition Description:
    Foliation of the layers sometimes cut away.
    Not the original binding; pages cut at the top.
  • Decoration:
    Black ink. The structure of the text is supported by simple initials, extending over two lines.
    On ff. 85r- 94v (one layer) even simpler initials.
    Taller initials extending over 5 lines at the beginning of each book with red and blue filigranes and extensions (cf. ff. 1r , 15r , 28r , 40r , 72v , 110v , 124v ).
    A large initial extending over 6 lines at the beginning of Book VI with red and blue filigranes (cf. f. 88v ). Book numbers given at the top of the pages in red and blue.
  • Layout:
    Box of script: Text is set in two columns.

    About 72 lines to the page. Textus is written on every second line, commentary on every line.

    Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    At least three hands, probably of French origin. Corrections and additions in the margins by a lot of hands.
  • Binding Description:
    Modern cardboard-cover.
  • Provenance:
    In a hand from the 17th century , on f. 1r : "Ex bibliotheca PP. Carmelitarum Divionensium." In the 17th century the manuscript was owned by the Carmelites of Dijon. Some other note on the same page erased.
    On f. 166v : Ego Anthonius Beaupere vendidi hunc librum magistro Laurencio Burelli , carmelite, anno Domini M° octuagesimo nono , teste signo meo manuali hic opposito, anno M°CCCC°LXXXIX, die XIIa maij (and in a different hand:) A Beauxpere.
    Codex once belonged to the Bibliotheca Palatina, Mannheim .
History
  • Origin Date: 13th / 14th century
  • Origin Place: France
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.734
  • Hermann Hauke , Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayrischen Staatsbibliothek München Vol. Tomus IV, Series Nova, Pars I: Die Handschriften der ehem. Mannheimer HB Clm 10001-10930, Wiesbaden (1991) , pp. 139f. [Clm 10264]
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 166v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam dispositio scientie et certitudinis in omnibus viis...
    Incepit hunc librum a causa propter quam...

  • Explicit:
    ...impartibiliem et nullam habere magnitudinem.
    ...non esse corpus nec virtus in corpore. Explicit.

  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation; the vetus-translation was partially added by a later hand (in the margins, only lemmata) Prologue is missing.