United Kingdom, Cambridge, Peterhouse College Library, 66

United Kingdom, Cambridge, Peterhouse College Library, 66

In Physicam

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 210 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 362 x 250 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Catalogue sources as well as the visible foliation indicate only 195 folia. The DARE foliation represents the correct counting.
  • Collation:
    a^12 (wants 1, 6, 7), b^12, c^12 (wants 2, 9-12), d^12 (wants 1-3), e^12 (wants 4), f^12 (wants 2), g^12 (wants 12), h^12 (11, 12 cancelled?), i^10, k^8, l^10, m^10, n^12 (1-6 gone), o^12 (5-10 gone), p-r^12, s^10, t^12, u^12 (11, 12 omit.), v^10 (wants 7-10 blank)
  • Condition Description:
    It has been a very fine book, but everything like a picture has been slashed out.
  • Decoration:
    The initials are very finely done. Golden, red and blue markings and linings.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in three columns (the commentary set between two versions of the original text).

    69 lines to the page.

    Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand, very artfully done.
History
  • Origin Date: Late 13th / early 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Montague Rhodes James , A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts of the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1899) , pp. 85f.
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.354f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 210r
  • Incipit:
    [vetus] Sustinent autem idem hoc quodam... - [ Scotus ] Etiam accidit hoc idem quoquomodo...
    Cum declarauit causam propter...

  • Explicit:
    [vetus] et impertibile et nullam habens magnitudinem. - [ Scotus ] et impertium et nullam habere magnitudinem.
    Concluditur in secunda figura primum motorem non esse corpus nec uirtus in corpore. Expl. octauus physicorum aristotelis .

  • Note:
    Textus: both translations (vetus and Scotus ) are given. The prologues to books I and VIII are missing.