Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 308

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 308

Aristotelian Manuscript

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 301 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 330 x 240 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-242, 242bis, 243-300.
    A printed foliation with a mistake on f. 243 (cf. f. 243r ), which has no counting on it, but a handnote writing "242bis". The DARE-foliation differs from there on to offer the actual foliation.
  • Decoration:
    Initials out of red and blue colours. Initial letters to the books are also in red and blue colours, but also filled with golden parts. Titles of the same colours.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

    Ruled with 38 lines per column.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by one Northern or maybe Anglican hand.
    A lot of glosses by at least two other hands.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th and 14th century
  • Origin Place: Northern Europe, maybe England
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1174f.
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 69r
  • Note:
    New translation, 14 books.

Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 69r
  • Note:
    The Commentary of Averroes can be found in the marigns of the Aristotelian text, i.e. on f. 34v .

Aristotle Physica 69v - 117v
Aristotle De caelo 118r - 144v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 118r - 144v
  • Note:
    The Commentary of Averroes can be found in the marigns of the Aristotelian text, i.e. on f. 144r .

Aristotle Metheora 144v - 175v
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 175v - 189v
Aristotle De anima 189v - 207v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 189v - 207v
  • Note:
    The Commentary of Averroes can be found in the marigns of the Aristotelian text.

Aristotle De sensu et sensato 209r - 215v
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 215v - 217v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 218r - 223v
Aristotle De motu animalium 223v - 227r
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 227r - 229r
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 229r - 235v
Aristotle De causis proprietatum elementorum 235v - 241v
Aristotle De lineis indivisibilibus 241v - 244r
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 244v - 245v
Aristotle De bona fortuna 245v - 247v
Aristotle De plantis 247v - 256v
Aristotle De coloribus 256v - 260v
Aristotle De mundo 260v - 267r
Aristotle De progressu animalium 267r - 272r
Aristotle Physiognomonica 272v - 278v
Aristotle De pomo 278v - 283r
Aristotle De intelligentia Aristotelis 283r - 284v
Aristotle De differentia spiritus et animae 285r - 289v
Aristotle Epistola ad Alexandrum 289v - 290v
Aristotle Vita Aristotelis 290v - 292r
  • Note:
    Longer edition.

Aristotle De causis 293r - 301r