Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2077

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2077

Averroes, Long Commentary on the Physics
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 173 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 285 x 210 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-102,102a,103-172.
    Folio 103 was first forgotten in the manual foliation and afterwards signed out with a "102a" (cf. f. 103r ). Thus there are 173 folios in this manuscript and not 172, as Lacombe suggests. The DARE-foliation represents the actual counting of folios.
  • Collation:
    No script except of some annotationes in Gallic from the 15th century on f. 171r- 171v , which seems to be wrongly bound.
  • Decoration:
    Tall initials in red and blue in an Anglican way, decorated with elongating lines of the same colours. Littler ones always in blue, decorated with red lines. Numbers of the books painted in red and blue on the top in the margin of each page.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

    54 lines per column.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by three librarians. First hand on ff. 1r- 157v from the end of the 13th century. The rest of the text is written by two hands, an Anglican and probably a Rhenish, both dating from the beginning of the 14th century.
History
  • Origin Date: End of 13th, beginning of 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p. 1217
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 173r
  • Note:
    Textus: Just the Scotus -translation is given. Lemmata of the Vetus-translation given in the margin up to book VIII. Prologue to Book I is missing, prologue to book III appears in a normal way, prologue to Book VIII is added in the margin of f. 127v by a later hand.