Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 306

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 306

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 159 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 340 x 237 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Several rubrications among the lines. The big initial letters are painted in gold and various colours (the first big initial is missing). Some are decorated with images of human heads (fol. 88r and fol. 98v ) or the lamb of god (fol. 110v ). Smaller initials are sometimes underlined in blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    Main text differs from commentary in letter size.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand, probably english origin.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th-14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1174
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 131r
Robert Grosseteste Notule super librum Posteriorum analeticorum secundum beatum Robertum Lyncolniensem episcopum 135r - 159v
  • Incipit:
    Intentio Aristotilis in hoc libro...