Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 206

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 206

Glossed Aristotle-manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 371 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 315 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-371.
  • Decoration:
    Initial letters are painted in golden and other colours. They are decorated by fine pictures (cf. 258r and 306r [sic!]), painted in blue and colours, ornated with red and violet lines.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 1 column.

  • Hand Description:
    Two Anglican hands worked on the code.
    The commentaries and notes in the lower margin of the folios were made by a lot of hands from England, France and Italy (cf. f. 258r and later). They are dated to the 14th century.
  • Provenance:
    The manuscript is dated to the time before 1253.
    On f. 103v : "... anno gratie M°CC°L° tertio die Cathedre S. Petri recepit Willelmus de Salers XII solidos super istos libros naturales XX petiarum...
    On ff. 2r , 104r , 184r , 210r , 258r , 299r , 306r , 335r and 344r on every page one word is written forming a note of possession from the 14th century: "Iste liber est ad usum fratris Geraudi Carbonelli de ordine fratrum..".
History
  • Origin Date: First half of 13th century
  • Origin Place: England
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p. 1204f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 2r - 103r
  • Note:
    Excerpts of the commentary of Averroes are given in the margins, i.e. on f. 9v : "cum posuerimus subiectum principiorum, quod ..". or on f. 19v : "Et intendit per partem causam...".
Aristotle Physica 2r - 103v
Thomas Aquinas In physicam 2v - 103r
  • Note:
    The commentary of Aquinas is written in the margin.
Adam of Buckfield Commentum in De caelo 104r - 182v
  • Incipit:
    In libro precedenti, qui intitulatur de physico auditu, egit Ar. de corpore mobili...
  • Note:
    Authorship is not clear. The commentary is written in the margins.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 104r - 182v
  • Note:
    We can find excerpts of the Long Commentary on De caelo in the margins.
Aristotle De caelo 104r - 183r
Anonymous Notule super librum De generatione et corrputione 184r - 209r
  • Incipit:
    De generatione autem... Cum sit in libro phisicorum de corpore mobili..
  • Note:
    The commentary is written in the margins.
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 184r - 209r
Adam of Buckfield Notule Metheorum 210r - 256v
  • Incipit:
    Postquam etc. Intentio in hoc libro est de corpore mobili quarto...
  • Note:
    The commentary is written in the margins.
Aristotle Meteorologica 210r - 256v
Aristotle De anima 258r - 299r
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 258r - 299r
  • Note:
    Excerpts of the commentary of Averroes are given in the margins, i.e. on f. 259r : "non est possibile ut tale contingat, scilicet...".
Anonymous Commentary in De anima 258r - 299r
  • Incipit:
    Bonorum honorabilium. In hoc libro intentio est de anima...
  • Note:
    The commentary is written in the margins.
Aristotle De memoria et reminscentia 299r - 304r
Anonymous Commentary on De memoria et reminscentia 299r - 304r
  • Incipit:
    Reliquorum... Quibusdam naturalis philosophie doctoribus...
  • Note:
    The commentary is written in the margins.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 306r - 317v
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 318r - 334v
Anonymous Notes on De sensu et sensato 318r - 334v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem... Quadruplex invenitur ab Aristotele tractatus...
  • Note:
    Notes are written in the margins.
Aristotle De differentia spiritus et animae 335r - 343r
  • Note:
    tr. Hispalensis.
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 343v - 346r
Aristotle De causis 346v - 354v
Aristotle De plantis 355r - 371r