Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2089

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2089

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 359 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 318 x 210 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    We have reclaimers in the final quaternion, which consists out of 12 ff., with letters a-s.
  • Decoration:
    Titles are written on top of the pages in red and blue. The larger initials are coloured in red and blue, with elongations. The minor initials are in either red or blue, entwined with lines of the other colour. We have rubrication and paragraph signs in either red or blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    48 lines to the page (less for parts with textus in larger font).
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one Gallic librarian, possibly from Paris.
  • Provenance:
    We have many erased ex-libris on f. 359r .
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1221
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 89-92
Content
Aristotle De causis 1r - 5v
  • Incipit:
    Omnis causa primaria ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sicut ostendimus. [Rubr.:] Expliciunt canones Aristotelis de pomo eterno [sic] siue de intelligentiis siue de esse, siue essentia pura [sic] bonitatis siue de causis expositis ab Alpharabio .
  • Note:
    Rubricated, we have: "Incipit liber de causis Aristotelis ".
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 6r - 196r
  • Note:
    Rubricated, we have: "Incipit liber primus de celo et mundo cum comento Auerroys ".
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 196v - 255r
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 255r - 261v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 261v - 266v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus caeleste.
  • Explicit:
    Et scias quod hec quaestio est valde bona. [Rubr.:] Explicit tractatus averois de substantia orbis.
Avicenna Physica 267r - 308r
  • Incipit:
    Postquam expediuimus nos, auxilio Dei ...
  • Explicit:
    ... [Rubr.: Capitulum de comitantia et contactu et permixtione et coniunctione et disiunctione et medio et extremo et simul et separatum] Antequam loquamur de finitate corporum ... Et hee propositiones per se note sunt. [Rubr.:] Explicit liber Sufficientie Auicenne .
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the title "Collectio Secunda Libri Sufficientie Avicenne ". D'Alverny notes a fuller rubricated title: "Titulus. Collectio secunda libri Sufficientie Auicenne principis philosophi. Prologus. Dixit princeps".
Avicenna De anima 308r - 357v
  • Incipit:
    Reverentissimo Toletane sedis archiepiscopo et Yspaniarum primati Auendeueth israelita philosophus ... [f. 308v :] Iam expleuimus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... cum loquemur de animalibus. [Rubr.:] completus est liber de anima ... Post hunc ... de causa causarum.
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the title "Sextus Naturalium Avicenne ". According to d'Alverny , rubricated, we have: "Prologus in Sextum naturalium Auicenne ". The text has a prologue.
Anonymous Elenchus Operum Avicenne VI^tum Naturalium Sequentium, et Analysis cuiusque Capituli eiusdem VI^ti Naturalium 357v - 358r
  • Incipit:
    Liber iste diuiditur in quinque partes ...
  • Explicit:
    ... instrumenta anime. Deo gratias. Amen.
  • Note:
    This text has various readings within the margin ("al. Continet autem liber tractatus quinque").