Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 53

Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 53

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 70 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 310 x 208 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Foliated, except for blank pages at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.
  • Hand Description:
    Done by one hand in Padova in 1442 . Cf. note on the last blank page: 1442. Iohannes Marchanova artium et medicine doctor pro sua pecunia faciendum curavit Patavii.
  • Acquisition:
    Manuscript came to the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in 1782 .
  • Provenance:
    Given to the monastery S. Iohannes in Viridario in Padova by Iohannes Marchanova in 1467 .
History
  • Origin Date: 1442
  • Origin Place: Padova, Italy
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1103
  • Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli , Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Digessit et commentarium addidit Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli Vol. Tomus V, Venice (1872) , p. 119f. [VI,53]
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 119-120
Content
Al-Farabi De ortu scientiarum 55r - 57v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Alpharabii de ortu scientarum.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Isagoge 1r - 6r
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Categories 11r - 20r
  • Explicit:
    Explicit commentum Averoys super predicamenta.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Interpretatione 20r - 29v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit commentum Averoys super libro periermenias.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 44r - 52v
  • Explicit:
    Completum est commentum Averoys super quartum librum Meteororum Aristotelis .
Averroes On Whether the Active Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it Is Clothed with the Body 58r - 59v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit epistula Avicenne de intellectu. Intencio nostra in hac dictione est quod probemus omnes vias claras...
  • Explicit:
    ...hoc est in vita et in morte.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 69r - 70r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit epistola Averoys super questionem de creatione et generatione. Et nos diximus in hoc secundum nostrum posse...
  • Explicit:
    ...fit in anima artificis.
Avicenna Epistola de causa et causato 65r - 67v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit epistola Avicenne de causa et causato.