France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 15453

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 15453

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 414 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 395 x 275 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-414 in a current handwriting.
  • Decoration:
    Titles at the top of the pages in red and blue, alternating. Initials in red and blue or blue and golden.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    62 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' Long Commentary on Aristotle 's Physics: text and commentary alternating; each piece is marked with the letters " Ar. " (main text) and " Av. " (commentary).
  • Hand Description:
    Swiftly and firmly written by a scribe from Milan ; cf. colophon on f. 354r .
  • Provenance:
    On the back cover : Iste liber est pauperum magistrorum de Sorbona ex legato magistri Johannis Fuselerii , precii VIII librorum.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: Milan (Italy)
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.551f.
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Bnf. Gallica - Online catalogue [Latin 15453 in black and white]
  • 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) , 31f
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Bnf. Gallica - Online catalogue [Latin 15453 in colour]
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1v - 1v
  • Note:
    The prologue occurs tree times in the whole manuscript. The first version here, a second one as part of the Long Commentary on the Physics on f. 6v . A third version of the Prologue on f. 119v is written only in excerpts.
Anonymous Fragmentum juridicum 2r - 5v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 6v - 120v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Commentum Av. yspani Cordubensis super libro physicorum Ar. greci ...
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation The prologues to books III and VIII were added in the margins. Chapters VIII, 77-79 were added in the end of the text. The Textus of Scotus is only given in lemmata. Another version of the Prologue on f. 119v is written only in excerpts.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 121r - 202r
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 203r - 210v
  • Incipit:
    Commentum Averroes Yspani Cordubensis super libro De Generatione et Corruptione Aristotilis Greci Stragelite .
  • Explicit:
    ...motum non spere.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 210v - 214r
David of Dinant Tractatus Naturalis 214r - 216v
  • Incipit:
    Tria sunt in anima: sensus, ymaginacio, desiderium...
  • Explicit:
    ...anni solaris esse qoud exit ex divisione.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 217r - 259r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 259r - 260v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 260v - 261r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 261r - 263r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 263r - 263v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 263v - 266r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus exquibus...
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 267r - 354r
  • Incipit:
    Aristoteles: Incipit Commentum Averrois yspani Cordubensis super libro Metaphysice Aristotelis Greci stragelite phylosophorum precipui. Consideratio quidem in veritate difficilis est uno modo et facilis alio. (f. 267r ) Averroes: Quia ista scientia perscrutatur simpliciter, incepit notificare ... (f. 267r )
  • Explicit:
    On f. 354r : Explicit liber Metahysica Aristotilis cum commento Averroit .
  • Colophon:
    Colophon on f. 354r : anno dominice incarnartionis millesimo ducentesimo quadragesimo tercio, die veneris, quinto die exeunte junio fuit expletum per Jacobum Karentanum de Porta Nova et civitatis Mediolani . Deo gratias qui te illuminavit, benedicat qui cuncta creavit.
Aristotle De animalibus 355r - 411v
Proclus Diadochus Index capitolorum Elementationis physicae 412r - 412r
  • Incipit:
    Liber Prodi Lucii in Phisicis
Anonymous Tabula librorum 412v - 412v
Anonymous Fragmentum juridicum 413r - 414v