Italy, Modena, Biblioteca estense universitaria, cam. 104

BoethiusandAverroes
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 79 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Tall initial letters, but none of them is decorated with ornaments. Paragraph-signs in red ink.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one librarian.
  • Binding Description:
    Bound in Leather by Mr. Giuseppe Campori
  • Provenance:
    Another inscription by the same hand one can read on f. 68r : "Dordrecht letare, te non potuit superare, Turba Brantia, gens hollandrina vicina. A quibus obsessa, fuit civitas tua non retrogressa. Per quatuor hebdomadas, circumvallata patebas. Hoc scitur, gestis, sis concors intus et exstris (?)". Because the town was sieged by enemies in 1418, this inscription could be a hint, that this manuscript was written in this year.
History
  • Origin Date: 1418 (?)
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1000f.
  • Raimondo Vandini , Appendice prima al catalogo dei codici e degli autografi posseduti dal marchese Giuseppe Campori, Modena (1886) , p. 46 [Link]
Content
Averroes De consolatione philosophiae 1r - 68r
  • Incipit:
    ... quasi [...]entis rugatur nam caro et sanguis coagulatus...
  • Explicit:
    Hec dum mecum tacitus, etc. Ostendit metro precedenti, assumpta persona miseri Boethius se talem quod consolatione indigeret...
  • Note:
    The end is mutiliated.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Poetics 69r - 79r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Poetria Aristotelis cum commento Averrois ...
  • Explicit:
    [Textus:] ... aut est impossibilis aut difficilis ad usum aliquem certum intellectus.
    [Commentary:] ... itaque deridetur qui dulorationem (?) et manifestationem intendit. Explicit poetria Aristotelis cum commento Averrois translata de arabico in latinum. Completori bonorum referantur gracie.