France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 14385

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 14385

Averroes manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 233 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 385 x 260 mm
Detailed Description
  • Material Description:
    At the end two folios without counting.
  • Decoration:
    Titles at the top of the pages given in red and blue letters, alternating. Letters of the main initials partly in red, partly in blue. Letters of the minor initials in red and blue, alternating.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 62 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' Long Commentary on Aristotle 's Physics: Aristotle 's textus is given in bolder letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by two hands:
    first hand from ff. 1r- 160v and 211r- 231v , probably of Italian origin;
    second hand from ff. 161r- 210v .
  • Provenance:
    On f. 231v : Hunc librum acquisivit monasterio Sancti Victoris prope Parisius frater Johannes Lamasse , d um esset prior ejusdem ecclesie, and in another hand: Scriptum anno Domini 1424 .
History
  • Origin Date: Late 13th century
  • Origin Place: Italy ?
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.541f.
  • Averroes & Gion Darms , Averroes (Ibn Rušd). In Aristotelis librum II (α) Metaphysicorum commentarius. Die lateinische Übersetzung des Mittelalters auf handschriftlicher Grundlage mit Einleitung und problemgeschichtlicher Studie, Freiburg (1966) , 35f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 1r - 44v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 44v - 45v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber Aristotelis phylosophy, viri clarissimi et totius philosophye principis, de Sensu et Sensato quem Gerardu transtulit in latinum. Virtutes quidem sensibiles quedam sunt de necessitate..
  • Explicit:
    et de eo in secundo tractatu.
  • Note:
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 45v - 45v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractare de rememoratione ...
  • Explicit:
    illius quapropter sufficiebatur.
  • Note:
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 46r - 47v
  • Incipit:
    Sompnus igitur et vigilia...
  • Explicit:
    et de causis accidentium suorum dictum est. Explicit capitulum de sompno et vigilia.
  • Note:
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 47v - 48r
  • Incipit:
    Et in hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis et breuitatis vite ...
  • Explicit:
    posse nostrum et intellectum.
  • Note:
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 48r - 50r
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 51r - 132v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit commentum super librum Ar. d... auditu quae cummentatus e Averrois ...
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation Prologue is missing; the prologues to books III and VIII were added in the margins.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 133r - 160v
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 161r - 167r
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum in corde) 167r - 167v
  • Incipit:
    Capitulum primum de corde. In corde autem fuit...
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Sermo in diversitate vocis) 167v - 168r
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum in diversitate temporis conceptionis animalium) 168r - 168r
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum in operatione spermatis) 168r - 169v
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum de dando causam sterilitatis muli et mule) 169v - 169v
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Sermo in masculinitate et feminitate) 169v - 170r
Averroes Short Commentary on De Caelo 170v - 170v
  • Incipit:
    ...omnia duo extrema, inter que existit medium habens...
  • Explicit:
    ...in loco accipiantur aliquod aliorum predicamentorum...
  • Note:
    Two fragments: Capitulum de extremis in loco et medio; Capitulum de motu gravis et levis
Averroes On Whether the Active Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it Is Clothed with the Body 170v - 171r
  • Incipit:
    Intentio nostra de hac distinctione est quod...
  • Explicit:
    ...est in vita et in morte.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 171r - 174v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 174v - 231r
  • Incipit:
    Aristoteles: Consideratio quidem in veritate difficilis est... (f. 174v ) Averroes: Quia ista scientia perscrutatur simpliciter, incepit notificare... (f. 174v )
  • Note:
    Only lemmata are given from Aristotle's text, the text is only complete in the last four books. The books were numbered by a relatively young hand, always at the beginning of the book, but sometimes also on other folios (cf. f. 176r ). Darms states that the counting may have been complete in the past but is now partially truncated. From Book I on the books are counted ("Primus liber metaphisice"). Commenta are not counted in the marginalia, only in Book VIII, but another copyist seems to be writing here as well.