Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 309

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 309

Aristotle-Manuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 303 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 295 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    A printed foliation: 1-303.
  • Decoration:
    Initial letters are painted in golden and other colours, decorated with leaves and in the margins with little animals. Decorations in French style as well. Other intials are painted in red and blue, with lines around them. Titles painted on the top of each page in red and blue colours as well.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

    Ruled with 35 lines per column.
    In Liber de causis 57 lines per column, but every second line of textus left free, while the commentary uses every line.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by one French hand very well.
    A lot of glosses by at least two other hands.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th to 14th century
  • Origin Place: France
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1175f.
Content
Aristotle Metaphyisca 1r - 83r
  • Note:
    New translation in 14 books.
Aristotle De causis 83v - 88r
Aristotle Epistola ad Alexandrum 88r - 88r
Aristotle De morte et vita 88r - 88r
  • Incipit:
    Tria autem sunt accidentia circa cor...
  • Explicit:
    ...huius speculationis fere dictum est de omnibus.
  • Note:
    Just the last chapter: Liber de motu cordis.
Aristotle De bona fortuna 88v - 88v
Aristotle Physica 89r - 146v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 89r - 146v
  • Note:
    The Commentary of Averroes can be found in the marigns of the Aristotelian text, i.e. on f. 93v .
Aristotle De caelo 147r - 178r
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 178v - 195v
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 178v - 195v
  • Note:
    The Commentary of Averroes can be found in the marigns of the Aristotelian text.
Aristotle Metheorologica 196r - 232v
Aristotle De anima 233r - 254r
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 233r - 254r
  • Note:
    The Commentary of Averroes can be found in the marigns of the Aristotelian text.
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 254r - 261r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 261v - 264v
  • Note:
    A long excerpt from Averroes Commentary on De memoria on f. 262r .
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 261v - 264v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 264v - 271r
Aristotle De motu animalium 271r - 275r
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 275r - 277r
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 277r - 285r
Aristotle Physiognomonica 285r - 291r
Aristotle De coloribus 291v - 296r
Aristotle De lineis indivisibilibus 296v - 299v
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 299v - 301r
Aristotle De bona fortuna 301r - 303v