United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 94

United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 94

Averroes, Long Commentary on the Physics
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: II + 136 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 350 x 240 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Quires of 12 leaves (except xii^4), with catchwords and pencil signatures.
  • Decoration:
    Titles at the top of the pages done in a blackish current script. Initial letters in red and blue, smaller ones in red or blue, alternating. A modest initial to each book in blue flourished in red.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    48 lines to the page.

    Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    Neatly done by one hand.
    Each section of text in a larger hand than the following comment.
  • Provenance:
    Three 14th-cent. inscriptions in a current script on the verso-page of the first original flyleave: 1. "Liber M. Willhelmi Red ex dono magistri Nicholai de Sandwyco / Commentum Averois super 8 libris phyisicorum"; 2. following on this and now erased, apparently "Proprietas domus Mertone", same as in Merton College MS. 282. If this inscription is correctly read, the volume must have been originally selected as one of the 100 books left to Merton College by William Rede, who was bishop of Chichester 1368-85, and then transferred to Balliol by a change of plan. Nicholas of Sandwich was Rede's benefactor. The Balliol inscription is probably in the hand of Rede's secretary, Walter Roberts. 3. "Liber aule Balioli Oxon' in communi libraria eiusdem et ad usum communem sociorum ibidem / studencium cathenandus Ex dono venerabilis patris domini Willheilmi tercii episcopi Cicestrensis. Oretis / iogitur pro eodem et benefactoribus eiusdem ac fidelium animabus a purgatio liberandis".
History
  • Origin Date: early 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.399f.
  • Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors , Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford, Oxford (1963) , pp.78f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 136v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam disposicio sciencie etc. Incepit hunc librum a causa propter quam fuit consideracio...
  • Explicit:
    ...nec virtus in corpore. Explicit viiijus liber phisicorum.
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation Prologue is missing.