Italy, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII. E. 45

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 89 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 340 x 255 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Initial letters are painted in red and blue, the very first initial shows a picutre of Aristoteles teaching two students. Titles in the text are rubricated, but on the top of the pages titles are given in short.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

  • Hand Description:
    One hand worked on the code.
  • Binding Description:
    Parchment.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 88r one can read: "Mensis iulii die XXIII hec est inquisitio facta de Lino comusto (?) deuctalleurgeo..."
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1013-1015
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Supplementa altera, Bruges-Paris (1961) , p. 145
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982) , p. 193
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982) , p. 199
Content
Albert the Great Metaphysica 1r - 71v
  • Note:
    A lot of glosses by two hands of the 15th century, i.e. on f. 8r .
Albert the Great De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa 53r - 76v
  • Incipit:
    Primum etiam solum necesse est esse omnino et omnimode, quamvis enim necesse multis modis dicatur...
  • Explicit:
    ... et ipsum lumen et sic intelligentia est.
  • Note:
    The text is taken out of Book I: tr.1, ch.9 (beginning) - tr.4, ch.8.
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 71v
  • Note:
    A lot of glosses by Averroes and Albert the Great (see above), but also by Avenzoar (i.e. on f. 2r ), Hermes Trismegistus (i.e. on f. 2r ), Boethius (i.e. on f. 2v ) and Avicenna (i.e. on f. 14v ). Text is in the new translation.
Aristotle De mundo 72r - 78v
  • Note:
    Translated by Nicolaus Siculus .
Aristotle Epistola ad Alexandrum 78v - 79v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 71v
  • Note:
    One can find Averroes ' glosses i.e. on ff. 4v , 28r , 36r and 40v .