United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 113

United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 113

In metaphysicam
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 165 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 370 x 355 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    No space left for headings on top of pages. The initial words of each comment are emphasised by red rulings.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two colums.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by two or three hands.
    Similar thick english hands, magnificently written.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 1v , written by a 15th century hand: "Liber domus de Balliolo in Oxon(ia) ex dono Willelmi Gray, Eliensis episcopi".
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.401f.
  • Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors , Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford, Oxford (1963) , pp.91f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 144r
Aristotle Metaphysica 144r - 144r
  • Note:
    Middle translation, from book 12 just the end.
William of Moerbeke Elementatio theologica Procli (in calce nomen G. de Morbeka translatoris a. D. 1268 Viterbii) 145r - 165v