Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 37

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 37

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 324 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 302 x 200 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    We have titles in the top margins. Initials are coloured in red and blue. The very first letter of the initials is decorated in the Gallic way, with a picture of a teacher and a student, accompanied in the margin by ivy leaves and a picture of a dog chasing a stag. Otherwise, we have many small pictures at the bottom of the page, partly cut off (cf. ff. 36v , 60v , 84v , 94v , 134v , 146v , 158v , 170v , 182v , 194v , 206v and 231v ). We have drawings to illustrate the text on ff. 109v , 105r and 111r- 112r , all except the first at least partly within the written area.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns, in most parts.

    43 lines to the page, except for the end of the codex (around 52 lines to the page on ff. 317r - 324v).

    No script on ff. 232v and 315v . Ff. 316r- 316v have some notes and basic drawings, but otherwise no script.
  • Hand Description:
    For most parts of the codex, the text is well written by one hand.
  • Provenance:
    Another signature (Vat. Lat. 10537) is handwritten on f. x2 , together with the printed "Borghes. 37".
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1165 - 1166
  • Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino: Mirabile - Online Catalogue. Archivio digitale della cultura medievale. Digital Archives for Medieval Culture [description]
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 53v
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle Physica 54r - 92r
Aristotle Meteorologica 92v - 118v
Avicenna De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum 118v - 119v
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the title "De Mineralibus".
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 120r - 132r
Aristotle De caelo 132v - 154r
Aristotle De anima 154v - 169v
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 169v - 175r
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 175v - 177r
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 177v - 182v
Aristotle De motu animalium 182v - 185v
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 185v - 186v
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 187r - 192v
Aristotle Physiognomonica 192v - 197r
Aristotle De bona fortuna 197r - 198v
Aristotle De causis proprietatum elementorum 198v - 203r
Aristotle De lineis indivisibilibus 203v - 205v
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 205v - 206v
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia spiritus et animae 207r - 210r
  • Note:
    This is an anonymous recension.
Aristotle De plantis 210r - 217v
Aristotle De coloribus 218r - 221r
Aristotle De pomo 221v - 224v
Aristotle De intelligentia 224v - 225v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 226r - 232r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber averoys de substantia orbis. In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    ... nisi quia caret agente motum. Explicit liber de substantia orbis. amen.
Aristotle De causis 233r - 240r
Aristotle De progressu animalium 240v - 244v
Aristotle Problemata 245r - 315r
  • Note:
    This is the translatio vulgata.
Al-Ghazali Physica 317r - 324v
  • Incipit:
    Iam diximus quod ea que sunt ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et naturalibus.
  • Note:
    Lacombe also gives the title "Abreviatio Algazel de Naturalibus Aristotilis ".
Anonymous De forma 324v - 324v
  • Incipit:
    Utrum sit una forma substantialis in homine ...
  • Explicit:
    ... forma est causa omnium accidencium que sunt in ea, sicut mater, ergo omne.
  • Note:
    The text ends abruptly.