Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14070 a

Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14070 a

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: II + 14 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 320 x 225 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    (2+IV)8 + III14
    The double-pages 10/13 und 11/12 are swapped, the 2nd double-page of the second layer is missing. original sequence of folios: 9, X, 11, 10, 13, 12, X, 14 (X = missing folio).
  • Decoration:
    The writer left space for initials.
  • Layout:
    The text is set in 2 columns.

    There are about 78-82 written lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    The code is worked out by one hand writing Gothic italics.
  • Binding Description:
    Cardboard.
  • Provenance:
    The manuscript consisted of four primarily autonomous partes with 91 folia altogether. It was bound after 1500. 1875 the manuscript was parted in three autonomous manusripts: I = Clm 14070a, II = Clm 14070b, III and IV = Clm 14070c.
History
  • Origin Date: Second half of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Manuscripta medievalia, Onlinekatalog [München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14070a]
  • Elisabeth Wunderle , Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayrischen Staatsbibliothek München Vol. Bd. 1 Clm. 14000-14130, Wiesbaden (1995) , pp. 162f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 1r - 13v
  • Incipit:
    si concessissemus quod esset inferius...
  • Explicit:
    ... a sensibus scilicet ut instrumentum.
  • Note:
    Chapters II,38 - III,66 After f. 9v a loss of one page: III,5-11 missing. Text conversion by leaf interchange.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 14r - 14v
  • Incipit:
    non transmutant substantiam transferentem...
  • Explicit:
    ...quia caret agente motum. Deo gratias. Materia vero...dignius habet hoc nomen substantiam quam hoc nomen materia (!). Explicit Commentator. Finitus et conpletus dei gratia, cui debetur gloria in secula seculorum.
  • Note:
    A fragment, i.e. the end of the De Substantia Orbis, starting in the middle of chapter 2. The loss of pages (see above) is the reason, why the beginning is missing. No text in the b-column on f. 14v .