Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2985

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2985

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 55 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 282 x 202 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Titles on top of the pages in minium. According to Lacombe , the initial for the first chapter is decorated in the Italian way, with the head of a teacher inside the letter. The other initials either have acanthine leaves and varying colours, or red and blue colours and entwined little lines.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    50 lines to the page.

    Ff. 28r- 28v are without script.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one Italian librarian.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1234
Content
Aristotle Physica 1r - 27v
  • Note:
    This is the old translation.
Aristotle Physica 11v - 12r
  • Incipit:
    ... sit enim b. quidem aqua ...
  • Explicit:
    ... distabit cubi corpus ...
  • Note:
    This is a fragment of the old translation (a continuous part of IV, 8), given in two long glosses, both below the main text.
Aristotle De generatione 29r - 37r
  • Note:
    This is the old translation.
Aristotle De anima 37r - 48r
  • Note:
    This is a contaminated version.
Aristotle De causis 48r - 52r
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 52r - 55v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated: Incipit liber de substantia orbis secundum quosdam.] In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste.
  • Explicit:
    ... et scias quod hoc quaestio est valde bona.