Italy, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII. E. 36

Italy, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII. E. 36

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 537 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 384 x 265 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Red and blue titles at the top of the pages in small letters. Small initial letters in red and blue. Rubrications throughout the text.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 60 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' Long Commentary on Aristotle 's Physics: the translations from Greek and Arabic are seperated in the two columns; the commentary by Averroes is set in the margins around.
  • Hand Description:
    Written by one hand.
  • Binding Description:
    Codex is bound in parchment.
History
  • Origin Date: Early 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1011ff.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 178r
  • Note:
    Textus: both translations (vetus and Scotus ) are given. Prologue is missing.
Aristotle De motu animalium 178r - 178v
  • Incipit:
    Quod autem secumdum locum mutatioprimus motuum est...
  • Explicit:
    ...nullum itaque finitum cintingit infinitam potenciam habere.
  • Note:
    A fragment.
Aristotle Suppletiones ad Physicam 179r - 180v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 181r - 284v
Aristotle Metaphysica 285r - 292v
  • Note:
    The first book, new translation.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 293r - 428r
  • Note:
    In the new translation of Book 2-10 and 12.
Aristotle Metaphysica 429r - 444v
  • Note:
    New translation of Book 11 and 13-14.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 445r - 520v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit commentum Averroys super libro de anima Aristotelis cum textu utriusque translationis. Gratia plume et atramenti. Explicit commentum Averroys .
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 522r - 529v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit Averroys super librum de generatione et corruptione.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 530r - 531v
  • Incipit:
    Averroys de sompno et vigilia. Cpt. primum diffinitio sompni et vigilie. Somnus igitur et vigilia...
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 535r - 535v
  • Incipit:
    [End of chapter 2:] ... necesse est ut primum [?] calefaciens calefaciat per qualitatem ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et scias quod haec quaestio est valde [?] bona.
  • Note:
    This is a fragment from the end of the De Substantia Orbis (beginning with the end of chapter 2).
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 536r - 537v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 530r - 531v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 530r - 531v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 530r - 531v
  • Explicit:
    ...quoniam autem fit remomoratio et