Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 108

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 108

Aristoteles Manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 290 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 205 x 155 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Simple initial letters until f. 103v . The rest of the text is written by a French hand and has red or blue initials.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 1 column.

  • Hand Description:
    Written by a lot of librarians.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 200r : "Iste liber est Crebhinis (?) Colessoni (?)." And on f. 241v somebody wrote a verse: "Fur aurum, virgo flores, mare navita, libros Clericus; equivoce singula quisque legit."
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1168
Content
Aristotle Analytica priora 2r - 103v
Aristotle Topica 104r - 188v
Aristotle Analytica posteriora 189r - 225v
Aristotle De sophisticis elenchis 226r - 252v
Aristotle Ethcia 253r - 263v
  • Note:
    Another translation of the end of the Ethica (cf. Aristoteles latinus, vol. I, pp.67,156).
Aristotle Ethica 264r - 283v
  • Note:
    In the old Translation.
Aristotle Ethica Nicomachea 284r - 286r
  • Note:
    This translation is called "Borghesiana" by Lacombe, unique here.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics 284r - 290v
  • Note:
    Fragments of Averroes' Commentary could be in the margins. The hint is given by In principio-Database, further research had no results jet.
Aristotle Ethica Nicomachea 286r - 290v
  • Note:
    A fragment of Book VIII.