United Kingdom, Worcester, Cathedral Library, Q. 34

Averroes, Long Commentary on De Anima and De Substantia Orbis
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: V + 116 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 280 x 180 mm
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    According to Floyer and Hamilton , the codex is well-written and in good condition.
  • Decoration:
    Titles on top of the pages in red and blue. We have coloured initials in red and blue. Chapter numbers are given in the margins in black.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one librarian, who distinguished the textus from the commentary with bold letters.
  • Binding Description:
    According to Floyer and Hamilton , we have a cover of old white leather, torn and detached.
  • Provenance:
    On ff. 116r- 116v is a "caucio" from 1339 .
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • John Kestell Floyer , Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester cathedral, Oxford (1906) , p. 125 [Q. 34]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp. 424 - 424
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 107v - 113r
  • Incipit:
    Intendimus in hoc tractatu ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ualde bona. Explicit tractatus aueroys de substantia orbis.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 1r - 107r
  • Incipit:
    Dixit Aristoteles ...