United Kingdom, Cambridge, Peterhouse College Library, 22

United Kingdom, Cambridge, Peterhouse College Library, 22

AristotelesMetaphysica
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 376 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 387 x 260 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    An old numbering exists (1-376).
  • Collation:
    a^12-c^12 (+12*)// e^12-k^12 l^12 (wants 12)-p^12 (5,6 fragments) q^12 (2 cut) t^12 (wants 6) u (11 gone) z (wants 5) aa^12 (8 mut.)-ff^12 gg^6 (wants 4-6).
  • Condition Description:
    The book ist mutilated for the sake of the initials.
  • Decoration:
    The ornament is english and of excellent quality; only traces are left because of the mutilation of the book.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns. The two translationes begin in parallel columns, lettered G and A respectively. This arrangement continues through the first book, but the nova translatio ends before the vetus. The parallel columns begin with the second book again, but the comment (on the 'arabic') begins almost at once to destroy the parallelism. There is no comment on books i, xiii, xiv, and for the two latter only the translation from greek.

    33 lines to full column of text, 65 in gloss.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand of italian look.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century - 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Montague Rhodes James , A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts of the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1899) , pp.42f.
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.353f.
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 37v
  • Explicit:
    ...diffiniuntur substancia et accidens etc. Expl. uetus methaphysice.
  • Note:
    Vetus-Translation.
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 376v
  • Note:
    New translation of 14 books, translated by W. de Morbect .
  • Colophon:
    Aristotilis philosophi de greco translatus in lati(num) a fratre w(?) de morbect
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 38r - 352r