United Kingdom, Edinburgh, University Library, 128

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 16 + II leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 146 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    a^8, b^8 (+ 2 flyleaves) = 16.
  • Decoration:
    Initials have not been inserted. The text is accompanied by diagrams.
  • Layout:


    27 and 35 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by two hands, probably Italian.
  • Binding Description:
    Modern binding.
  • Provenance:
    The two hands are probably Italian, but there are no marks of local origin.
    A previous spelf-mark has been 712.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: Italy
  • Catherine Robina Borland , A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Mediæval Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh (1916) , pp. 203 - 204 [128]
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 12r - 16v
  • Incipit:
    [I]n hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus ...
  • Note:
    The text ends incompletely with a diagram and a title added on the flyleaf: "Tractatus de Substantia orbis Averois ".
Johannes de Sacrobosco Tractatus de sphaera 1r - 11v
  • Incipit:
    [T]ractaturum de Spera in quatuor capitulis distinguimus, etc. Spera igitur ab Euclide describitur ...
  • Explicit:
    ... aut mundi machina dissolvetur. Explicit tractatus spere. Deo gracias.