Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 84.04

Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 84.04

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 256 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In folio
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Initials in various colours, some with pictures, the first showing a franciscan monk offering a book to Christ (cf. f. 1r ).
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column.

    25 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' long commentary on Aristotle 's Physics is given in form of marginal glosses by a later hand.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.914
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 84v
  • Note:
    Textus: vetus-translation Prologue is missing.
Aristotle De caelo 84v - 130v
  • Note:
    New translation.
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 130v - 155r
  • Note:
    New translation.
Aristotle Meteorologica 155r - 208v
  • Note:
    New translation.
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 208v - 211r
Aristotle De proprietatibus elementorum 211v - 223r
Aristotle De anima 223r - 256v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber De Anima Aristotelis et est sextus librorum naturalium. Deo gratias amen.
  • Note:
    New translation.