Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Z. L. 291

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 204 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 413 x 288 mm
Detailed Description
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one hand, named as Senis by Lacombe .
  • Provenance:
    The codex once belonged to cardinal Bessarion and, according to the colophon of the Commentary on the Meteorologica and the note after the table of contents, can be dated more precisely to 1435 - 1443 .
History
  • Origin Date: 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982)
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1122f.
  • Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli , Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Digessit et commentarium addidit Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli Vol. Tomus V, Venice (1872) , pp. 14 - 15 [Z.L.291]
Content
Albert the Great De anima 1r - 79v
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , this does not contain the Aristotelian text.
Albert the Great Meteora 81r - 195v
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , this does not contain the Aristotelian text. The text ends in book II.
  • Colophon:
    [L. 2:] Expletus Senis die 20 fegruarii 1435. Burgius scripsit.
    [L. 4:] Explicit feliciter Metheaurorum liber Alberti qui magnus dicitur hora 16^a die 13^a aprilis 1443.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 200r - 204v
  • Incipit:
    Libellus seu tractatus aureus Averrois commentatoris de substantia orbis ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber Averrois , de substantia orbis, in quo maiores difficultates philosophicae sunt tactae.
  • Note:
    Valentinelli notes, that in the beginning of the text we have a sample of the forged letter from Ps.-Lentulus , governor of Judea, to the Roman senate about Jesus Christ . According to Valentinelli , the text is also called "de compilatione coelesti" and the words of the explicit can be found only after the actual end.