United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 105

United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 105

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 173 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 370 x 260 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Quires of 12 leaves, except of xii^10 and xv^6.
  • Decoration:
    The first words of each paragraph are underlined or lined through in bright red. The first words of commentary are also signed by red lines. Capitals and headings are not filled in, although there is space left for them. Littler initials worked out in red color.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

    Each column has 42 lines.
  • Hand Description:
    One or more somewhat irrgular bookhands (Dutch or German?), using very black ink.
History
  • Origin Date: Early 14th century
  • Origin Place: Dutch or German ?
  • Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors , Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford, Oxford (1963) , p.86f.
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.400
Content
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 2r - 5r
  • Incipit:
    Virtutes quidem sensibiles...
  • Explicit:
    ...loquendum est de eo in secundo tractatu huius libri.
  • Note:
    This is the Compendium libri de sensu et sensato. Translated by Michael Scot .
Anonymous De appetitu 11v - 12r
  • Incipit:
    Continue alterantur sicut resolvuntur...
  • Explicit:
    ...nec sunt animalia cum organum non habeant. Expliciunt libri de sompno et vigilia et de morte et vita.
Alfred of Sareshel De vegetabilibus 12r - 15r
  • Incipit:
    Vita in animalibus et plantis inventa est. Inferioris mundi corporum quattuor sunt prima genera...
  • Explicit:
    ...calorem et siccitatem inducendo unde fit amarus.
Themistius In de anima 15r - 65r
  • Incipit:
    Bonorum honorabilium etc. De anima quecumque est possibile sciencia comprehendere...
  • Explicit:
    ...ad significare aliquid alteri.
  • Note:
    The version of Guilelmus de Moerbeke .
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 65v - 173r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam de rebus honorabilibus est scire aliquid etc. Intendit per subtiliatem confirmationem demonstrationis...
  • Explicit:
    ...et hoc est manifestum. Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor eat.
  • Note:
    No script on f. 173v , except for an early note: "170 folia". With the Aristotelian text. This is the version of Michael Scot , printed in the Juntine edition (Venice, 1550), Vol. VI.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 2r - 5r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit commentator de memoria et minscencia. Iste tractatus incipit perscrutari de memoracione...
  • Explicit:
    ...alteram aut utramque.
  • Note:
    This is the Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia. Translated by Michael Scot .
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 2r - 5r
  • Incipit:
    Sompnus ergo et vigilia describuntur multis modis...
  • Explicit:
    ...suorum dictum est.
  • Note:
    This is the Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia. Translated by Michael Scot .
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 2r - 5r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis ...
  • Explicit:
    ...posse et intellectum. Explicit commentum Averreys super librum de vmorte et vita (this colophon is deleted).
  • Note:
    This is the Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite. Translated by Michael Scot .