France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 16601

Averroes-Manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 85 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 250 x 195 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    We have gatherings of six or eight folios.
  • Condition Description:
    Ff. 1r and 85v are glued to the cover.
    According to Lacombe , the infrequent annotations are cut off by the bookbinder. Hillgarth just mentions, that some folios are mutilated.
  • Decoration:
    No decoration in the whole code.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns. The written area is 210 mm x c. 157 mm.

    69 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by multiple current hands, nearly faded and difficult to read due to negligent writing.
  • Binding Description:
    Binding of the Sorbonne, according to Hillgarth .
  • Provenance:
    On f. 84r we have: "Iste liber est pauperum scolarium de Sorbona ex legato magistri Henrici de Lewis in Brabantia [canonici] Leodyensis, magistri in sacra theologia, quondam socii de Sorbona".
    The codex was once Sorbona 1880.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.578
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 61r - 66r
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 74v - 84r
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 2r - 60r
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , the Aristotelian text of De Anima differs greatly from the commentary with respect to the lines. Lemmata of the older Greek/Latin version are inserted within the text of Averroes .
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 66v - 69r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 66v - 69r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 66v - 69r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 66v - 69r