Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2090

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2090

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 118 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 310 x 220/230 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    In quires 1, 5, 7-10 the signs of pagination are still visible which - after adding some ornaments - a hand in the middle of the margin below notated in converse order. The single pages 1r- 118v were paginated in order by the Biblioteca Vaticana; because the one who did the pagination first numbered the pages in an absurd sucsession: 6, 5, 8, 7, which was corrected by the Biblioteca Vaticana.
  • Collation:
    The codex consists of eleven quires, two seniones with one folio added as an ending to De generatione and De corruptione, followed by another two seniones, two quiniones, one senio, one quinio, another two seniones and one binio of which the last page is missing.
  • Condition Description:
    Parchment of no greater value with marginal cracks and largely damaged by humidity, especially the superior parts of the pages. Most pages were restored later, the signs are still visible. Moths have damaged ff. 1r- 20v , 107r- 118r .
  • Decoration:
    Initial letters almost ornaments. Some free space to fill in initials, but the initials are missing. Some smaller initials are rubricated, but only in ff. 1r , 25v , 26r .
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column.

    Numbers of written lines variing: 26 (quires 1-2, 8-9), 27 (quires 3-6, 11), 26-29 (quire 7), 26-27 (quire 10)
  • Binding Description:
    The cover was made under pope Pius VI (1775-1799) in the Biblioteca Vaticana: charts of red with two added golden lines, the back was restorted in 1846-1853, but later mostly damaged by moths, with impressed golden ornaments of pope Pius IX (1846-1878) and librarian Aloysius Lambruschinus (1834-1853)
  • Provenance:
    The codex was discovered by an unknown librarian, perhaps an Italian. In f. is written this indication in Italian hand of 15th century : In isto volumine sunt tres libri s(cilicet)/ Liber Metaphisice/ liber de gen(er)atione et cor(r)uptio(n)e/ Liber de intell(e)ctu et c(e)tera.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century - 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Claudius Leonardi , Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codices manu scripti recensiti Vol. Codices vaticani latini. Codices 2060-2117, Vatican (1987) , pp.129-132
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1221f.
Content
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 1r - 25v
  • Incipit:
    [D]e generatione autem et corruptione [corr. ex cum] natura generatorum et corruptorum universaliter de omnibus...
  • Explicit:
    ...sed non quorum substantia generatur ens talis qualis contigit non esse
Aristotle Metaphysica 26r - 38r
  • Incipit:
    [O]mnes homines natura scire desiderant. Signum autem est sensus delectio [sic pro: dilectio] propter enim utilitatem propter ipsos diliguntur...
  • Explicit:
    ...ex ipsis aliquid ad posteriores dubitationes proficiemur
  • Note:
    Book I.
Aristotle Metaphysica 38r - 115v
  • Incipit:
    [C]onsiderati quidem in veritate difficilis est uno modo et facilis alio modo...
  • Explicit:
    ...et impossibile est non ponere contratrium boni et intellectus
  • Note:
    Book XI.
Averroes On Whether the Active Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it Is Clothed with the Body 115v - 118r
  • Incipit:
    [I]ntentio nostra in hac dictione est quod probemus omnes vias claras et demonstrationes firmas...
  • Explicit:
    ...et inducat nos ad hoc quod simus fortunati primo et postea hoc est in vita et in morte
  • Colophon:
    De intellectu