United Kingdom, Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, 485/481

United Kingdom, Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, 485/481

In Physicam
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 176 + IV leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 377 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    No continous foliation but serveral marks, i.e. on ff. 25r and 165r .
  • Collation:
    a^2, 1^12-6^12, 7^8, 8^12-15^12, b^2
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 50 lines to the page.

    Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand.
    Generally well written.
  • Binding Description:
    Leather over board, clasps gone. Traces of chain-mark at top and bottom of first cover.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Montague Rhodes James , A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Gonville and Caius College Vol. Volume I. 1-354, Cambridge (1907) , p.555
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.348
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1v - 176r
  • Incipit:
    Intencio mea in hoc sermone est glosare...
  • Explicit:
    ...uirtus in corpore. Expl. liber.
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation