Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2435

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2435

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 180 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 346 x 225 mm

Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    The manuscript consists of two originally different parts (ff. 1r- 123v ; ff. 124r- 180v ).
  • Decoration:
    The larger initials of the first part are either in red or blue colours and decorated with little lines of purple and red. Littler ones are just in red or blue. Initials in the second part are also in red or blue and in addition decorated with lines from the 13th century . There are titles in red or blue on the top of the pages of the second part (ff. 124r- 180r ).
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 55 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' Long Commentary on Aristotle 's Physics: Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    Two scribes.
    Two scribes elaborated the bipartite code. The first part (ff. 1r- 122v ) could have been written by an Italian or Hispanic scribe, the second part (ff. 124r- 180r ) is done by a Gallican hand.
History
  • Origin Date: First part 14th, second from 13th century.
  • Origin Place: 1st part (ff.
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1228f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 122v
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation The prologues to books III and VIII are missing. Ff. 123r- 123v is empty.

Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 124r - 180r