France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 16151

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 16151

Averroes-Manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 158 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Large initials in gold and other colours. Other ones are partly in red and partly in blue. Headings on top of the pages are painted in the same colours.
  • Layout:
    Text is mainly set in two columns, but ff. 22r - 145v have splitted columns to show two different versions of the treatise De anima parallelly.

  • Hand Description:
    The codex is written elegantly by one librarian.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 158v one can read: "Iste liber est pauperum magistrorum in theologica facultate studentium, ex legato magistri Gyraudi de Abbatisvilla (Anm. Lacombe : ✝ a. D. 1271 vel 1272)".
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 568
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 2r - 7r
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 7r - 21v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 22r - 145v
  • Note:
    New and old translation of the Textus are given
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 146r - 149r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 146r - 149r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 146r - 149r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 146r - 149r
  • Note:
    Lacombe : Begins on f. 155r .