United Kingdom, Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, 486/482

United Kingdom, Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, 486/482

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: II + 502 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 395 x 234 mm
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    According to Thomson , the outermost parchment leaves were originally pastedowns and the manuscript was retrimmed, affecting the marginalia.
  • Decoration:
    Titles at the top of the pages in red and blue. Smaller initials done in red and blue with tangled lines. According to Thomson , the blue initials are flourished in red, the red initials at first in blue, later in violet, all with long extensions in red and blue. The bigger initials letters are done in gold and various other colours and on their shafts, reaching in the margins, they show images of monstrous birds with human faces. According to Thomson , the initials opening items 1 - 3 are excised, while some of the others have protective curtains of gold textile. Paragraph signs in red or blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 61 lines to the page.

    According to Thomson , text and comment are written in alternating blocks, the text in large script on every second line.

    According to Thomson , there are two unnumbered paper blanks at each end. Additionally, flyleaves I-II, as well as ff. 1r , 384v and 499v- 502v are without script.
  • Hand Description:
    Neatly done by one hand of English origin. According to Thomson , it is a proficient gothic rotunda bookhand.
  • Binding Description:
    According to Thomson we have a 19th century binding, formerly with clasps at head and tail, two at the foredge.
  • Provenance:
    According to Thomson , the codex was probably made, and certainly first used, at Oxford and at Cambridge by the end of the 14th century .
History
  • Origin Date: Early 14th century
  • Origin Place: England ?
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.348f.
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 2: Cambridge, Turnhout (2013) , pp. 72 - 75
Content
Anonymous De appetitu 495r - 495r
  • Incipit:
    Continue alterantur...
  • Explicit:
    ...organum non habeant anguille.
  • Note:
    This is not listed in Thomson .
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1v - 234v
  • Incipit:
    Intencio mea in hoc sermone est glosare hunc librum Aristotelis qui dicitur auditus naturalis ...[mutilated beginning] propter quam necesse ut demonstrationes huius sciencie fuerunt signa ...
  • Explicit:
    Concluditur in secunda figura primum motorem non esse corpus nec uirtus in corpore.
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation. According to Thomson , the beginning is mutilated, the leaf after 1 excised.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 235r - 384r
  • Incipit:
    [Dedication:] [Tibi Stepha]ne de Pro[uino hoc opus] quod ego [Michael Sc]otus dedi ...
    [Text:] [Maxima] cognitio nature ...
    [Commentary:] Quia iste liber primus in quo loquitur de rebus sensibilibus naturalibus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et sic completa est intencio nostra in hoc tractatu.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 495r - 499r
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 471r - 482v
  • Incipit:
    Intencio nostra in hoc libro est quod oportet determinare causas uniuersales generatorum omnium et corruptorum ...
  • Explicit:
    Manifestum est quod differt postremum numero a precedentibus. Explicit tractatus Aueroyz super librum de generacione.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 483r - 487v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus Aueroys super librum Metheororum. Postquam uisum est quod principia elementaria elementorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ut dicat qualitatem generationis sue in eo quod est ei proprium. Explicit tractatus Aueroyz super librum Metheororum.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 385r - 470v
  • Incipit:
    [Text:] [Quoni]am de re[bus h]onorabi[libus] ...
    [Commentary:] Intendit per subtilitatem confirmacionem demonstracionis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et precipue uisus et auditus et hoc est manifestum.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 487v - 489v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus Aueroys super librum de Sensu et Sensato. Virtutes quidem sensibiles quedam sunt necessarie in esse animalium et quedam sunt propter melius ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in secundo tractatu istius libri qui dicitur liber de Sensu et Sensato. Explicit tractatus Aueroys super librum de Sensu et Sensato.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 487v - 489v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus Aueroys super librum de Memoria et Reminiscencia. Iste tractatus incipit perscrutari de memoracione et inquisicione per rememoracionem ...
  • Explicit:
    ... habeat alteram istarum uirtutum uel utramque. Explicit commentum Aueroys super librum de Memoria et Reminiscencia.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 487v - 489v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus Aueroys super librum de Sompno et Vigilia. Dicendum est de sompno et uigilia primo utrum appropriatur anime aut corpori ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et de causis accidencium suorum dictum est.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 487v - 489v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis et breuitatis uite. Incipit tractatus Aueroys super librum de morte et uita et de causis lon. & bre. uite. Dicamus igitur quod concessum est hic esse causas naturales in hiis duobus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... amen non organum non habeant anguille. Explicit commentum Aueroys super librum de morte et uita.