United Kingdom, Durham, Chapter Library, C. I, 17 (B)

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 266 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 400 x 250 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Rud notes another text before the first item, i.e. the Physica of Aristotle with the commentary of Averroes . He adds, that something is missing from the beginning of this text. The text is not mentioned in Lacombe and may have been bound or stored together with the present texts at an earlier time.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

  • Provenance:
    We have a similar codex (Durham, Chapter Library, C. I, 17 (A)), which together with this one forms a two volume work. The signs depicted in ff. 1r and 266r show, that both codices belonged to the Salvayn family, which left the county of Durham in northern England in the beginning of the 15th century .
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.365
  • Thomas Rud , Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis Catalogus Classicus, Durham (1825) , pp.263 - 264
Content
Anonymous De appetitu 232v - 233r
  • Incipit:
    Continue alterantur ...
  • Explicit:
    ... non habeant anguille.
  • Note:
    This text is not mentioned in Rud .
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 1r - 147v
  • Incipit:
    Quia iste primus liber, in quo loquitur de rebus sensibilibus, naturalibus ...
  • Note:
    The text includes a letter to Stephanus de Provino, but ends abruptly in book IV. According to Rud , this is only the second item of the codex, the first being Aristotle 's Physica with the commentary of Averroes , but with some text missing at the beginning. However, he gives the signature as "C. I. 17.", which suggests, that the codex may have been split up, later.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 250r - 254r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari ...
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 233r - 245r
  • Incipit:
    Intentio nostra in hoc Libro est, quòd oportet determinare causas ...
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 245r - 250r
  • Incipit:
    Postquam visum est quod Principia ...
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 148r - 225v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit Commentum Averoÿz .
  • Note:
    The beginning of the text is missing.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 226r - 228r
  • Incipit:
    Virtutes quidem sensibiles ...
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 226r - 228r
  • Incipit:
    Tractatus iste incipit de Rememoratione ...
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 226r - 228r
  • Incipit:
    Cum jam diximus de hâc Virtute ...
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 226r - 228r
  • Incipit:
    Et in hoc tractatu perscrutatur de ...