France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 14379

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: VII + 157 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 370 x 250-255 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of three codicological sections (ff. x1- x7 , 1r- 108v and 109r- 156v ).
  • Decoration:
    No decoration in the Aristotelian part.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    53 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by many librarians.
    The Aristotelian part is apparently written by one Anglican hand.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 156v , a hand from the 14th century wrote: "Hec 4^or sexterne inconjuncte commenti Averoys super libro De Anima Aristotelis pertinent sancto Victori prope Parisius". Without a doubt, this refers to the antefolio of the first part: "Istum librum dedit ecclesie sancti Victoris Parisiensis bone memorie Adenulphus de Anagnia [† 1289 - 1290 ], quondam prepositus sancti Audomari et canonicus atque electus Parisiensis, sub tali conditione quod abbas et conventus ejusdem ecclesie non possint illum alienare vel vendere sed teneantur etc."
    The codex was once Sanctus Victor 372.
    According to Huygens , the codex was written in Northern France in the early first quarter of the 14th century .
    A copy of either the whole codex or at least the Excidii Aconis Gestorum Collectio was made ( 17th century ) and is now Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 14359.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.540 - 541
Content
Adenulphus de Anagnia Super Actus Apostolorum 1r - 107v
  • Incipit:
    Superedificasti ...
  • Explicit:
    ... intelligendam dedit.
Anonymous Excidii Aconis Gestorum Collectio x1 - x6
  • Incipit:
    Audite insule, Ecce nova vagit hystoria ...
  • Explicit:
    ... terre sancte recuperatione.
  • Note:
    Huygens notes different incipit/explicit words, possibly set before/after the main text: "Excidii Aconis in anno domini .M.CC.nonagimo [sic] primo gestorum collectionis prohemium incipit ... Explicit Excidii Aconis gestorum collectio". According to him, this is by far the most reliable manuscript of this text.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 154v - 156v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 109r - 154v