Condition Description:
Glued pages. Folio 3 has an hole on the top (cf. f.
3r
), coming from a former chain.
Textus and Commentary are shortend.
Decoration:
There is a painting in the form of a head painted by a later hand on f.
4r
.
On f.
1r
one can find a blue 'Q'-initial extending over 6 lines. Some initials were planned, but are not painted as we can see from some spaces left for them.
Kurt Heydeck ,
Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften der
Universitätsbibliothek Rostock Vol. Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Rostock; Bd. 1, Wiesbaden (2001) , p. 316f.
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Content
Averroes
Long Commentary on the Physics
1r - 4v
Incipit:
[Textus f. 1ra:] Quoniam disposicio sciencie et certitudinis in omnibus viis habentibus principia et causas et elementa etc.
[Commentary f. 1ra:] A. Incepit hunc librum a causa propter quam fuit consideracio huius sciencie in cognicione causarum rerum naturalium
[Textus f. 1vb:] Dicamus quod encium...
[Commentary f. 1vb:] Incepit notificare causam propter quam contingit ei loqui...
[Commentary f. 3vb:] Quia prima eius intencio est perscrutari de primo motore... quod nulla pars mundi mo[f. 4ra:]ueatur aut isti motus existentes (as commentary on Book VIII,1: "Utrum autem motus aliquando fuit et non ...")
[Textus f. 4vb:] Sed sequitur in istis si mouentur ...
[Commentary f. 4vb:] Unus agens non habet naturam largiendi ...
Explicit:
[Commentary f. 4vb:] ...ista sunt magis digna esse de numero
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