Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1031

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1031

Aristoteles, Physica and Metaphysica

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 123 + I leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Foliation from the 17th or 18th century: Paper in the beginning: I, then numbers from 1-123.
  • Collation:
    14IV^112 + (VI-1)^123
    Continous reclaimers.
  • Decoration:
    On f. 49r Initial lines are written with white colour on red ground. Other beginnings of books are decorated with red or blue Fleuronné-initials, some with ornaments, spirals, filled with frog spawn, their ends painted with fishbones. Paragraphs and titles changing in red and blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns. The box with script has the measures

    33-38 lines per column.
  • Hand Description:
    Written by one hand in Tetualis libraria. Some glosses written in a cursive handwriting.
  • Provenance:
    Manuscript of the University library. Title given in the catalogue: "Textus metaphysice et textus ethicorum in pergamento".
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: France
  • Dorothea Walz & Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Die historischen und philosophischen Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek (Cod. Pal. Lat. 921 - 1078), Wiesbaden (1999) , p.181 [Online link]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1194
Content
Aristotle Physica 1r - 48v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam quidem intellegere et scire...

  • Explicit:
    Nullam habens magnitudinem. Explicit liber phisicorum Aristotelis .

  • Note:
    Some quotes by Averroes ' Long Commentary on the Physics. Translated by William of Moerbeke .

Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 48v
  • Note:
    Some quotes from the Long Commentary on the Physics, one can find a citation on f. 19r and at the end of Physica on f. 48v .

Aristotle Metaphysica 49r - 123r
  • Incipit:
    Omnes homines natura scrie desiderant ... debentes ... eligimus...

  • Explicit:
    ... ut quidam dicunt neque hec esse principia. Explicit liber methaphisicorum Aristotelis secundum novam translationem.

  • Note:
    Translated by William of Moerbeke .