France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 17155

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 17155

Averroes-Manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 344 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 360 x 235 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Titles alternating rufous or blueish on the top of the pages. Big initials in gold or in different colours; their surrounding elongations exceed the pages. Small initials are alternating rufous or blueish.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    66 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' Long Commentary on Aristotle 's Physics: Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary; the vetus-translation is written in bolder letters than the Scotus-version.
  • Hand Description:
    The fine code is elegantly devised by one hand.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 582
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 3r - 154v
  • Note:
    Textus: both translations (vetus and Scotus ) are given. In V, 64 and 65, however, the vetus-version is lacking (see f. 89v ). In VIII, 77-79 only Aristotle 's text in the vetus-translation is given while the Scotus )-version as well as Averroes ' commentary (starting with the end of VIII, 76) are lacking (see ff. 151v- 152r ). These missing parts are found in the second text of this manuscript (see ff. 155r- 157r ). Prologue was added later on f. 3r- 3v . The prologue to book VIII is missing.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 155r - 157r
  • Note:
    These are the missing parts of the first text in this mansucript. F. 157v is empty.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 158r - 224v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 225r - 344v
  • Incipit:
    Tibi Stephano de Provino...