Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2080

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2080

Averroes in Metaphysicam

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 187 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 350 x 240 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Ff. 161 and 162 are signed out twice (cf. ff. 161r and 162r , 163r and 164r ).
  • Decoration:
    The initials are with golden and various other colours beautifully painted. The smaller intials are in alternating red and blue colour; they are decorated with lines inside and tripartite leaves. In the bottom margin, there are twigs with leaves bearing hounds and other animals. One haunting human is depicted on f. 1r .
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by one hand.
    The text is written by a French hand.
History
  • Origin Date: Early 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p. 1218
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 187v