Germany, Bernkastel-Kues, Bibliothek des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals, 301

Averroes, Colliget
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 52 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 425 x 270 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Layers without a certain orderliness.
  • Decoration:
    No Rubrications. Initials ornated in gothic style.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

    75 lines to the column.
    Schemes made with a pencil give the writing lines.
  • Hand Description:
    Written in a gothic cursive handwriting.
  • Binding Description:
    Cover made of wood coated with Morocco leather. Two leather closures torn off. Cover-sheets and protective leaves are missing.
History
  • Origin Date: 1339
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Jakob Marx , Verzeichnis der Handschriften-Sammlung des Hospital zu Cues bei Bernkastel a./Mosel, Trier (1905) , pp. 293f. [Link]
Content
Averroes Colliget 1r - 52v
  • Incipit:
    Quando ventilata fuit super me voluntas per nobile preceptum ex parte nobilis domini andelach sepstamirum helmoinum de maracho .. compilare librum in quo continetur tota sciencia medicinalis in arabico .. et vocavi nomen suum coliget.
  • Explicit:
    Nostros oculos illuminare dignetur. Amen. dicant omnes. Finito libro sit laus et gloria christo cuius misericordie super omnes prophetas eius sunt. Completus est iste liber anno domini 1339 XVI kalendas Januarii die veneris in quattuor temporibus ante natale domini et nocte illa super diem veneris thontrua cum choruscacionibus flurima fuerunt. [table]
  • Note:
    After the text comes a table written by the same hand.