Italy, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, E. 80. Inf.

Averroes In de celo
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 57 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 400 x 250 mm
Detailed Description
  • Content:
    Aristoteles' text is pure, but it is uncertain, which translation it is. Lacombe thinks the first part combines parts of both translation, while it follows neither consistently.
  • Condition Description:
    The first and the last folio is torn out, and this leads to mutilated beginning and end of the text. Furthermore parts of the first eleven pages have been cut out, but without loss of text.
  • Layout:
    No annotations in the margins or between the lines.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by one hand.
  • Provenance:
    The code was a gift to the Ambrosian library a.D. 1823. The previous owner is anonymous, but the codex has a acquisition note in common with the codes E 27 inf., E 29 inf. ed E 47 inf. of the same library.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.985f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 1r - 57v
  • Incipit:
    The beginning of the Aristotelian text is: "Quoniam corporum hoc quidem simplex est, hoc quodem compositum ex simplici, et est dicere corpus simplex omne corpus in quo est principium motus naturalis, verbi gratia ignis et terra et similia formis eorum... " The beginning of the commentary is: "Cum posuit motus naturales voluit demonstrare quod causa esse motuum simplicium est simplicitas corporum movencium..."