United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. class. lat. 287

Averroes, Long Commentary on De caelo
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 151 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 390 x 245 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    I and f. 148 are postmedieval paper binding leaves.
  • Decoration:
    Opening intial in colours and gold, with full length author portrait and 3-sided border, the elongations of the intial circumscribe the page. Elsewhere red or blue initials flourished in the other colour with branches and dragons. Red and blue running heads, red or blue paragraphs.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns. The writing box:

    60 lines of commentary to the column.
    The commentary differs from the textus. Textus are written in larger script, on alternate lines. Textus and commentary are in alternating blocks. Written in slightly black ink.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by one proficient scribe, writing formal gothic rotunda bookhand.
  • Binding Description:
    Canonici binding.
  • Acquisition:
    The code was acquired in 1817 by the Bodleian Library from the collection of the Venetian Jesuit Matteo Luigi Canònici (d.1805).
History
  • Origin Date: second quarter of 14th century
  • Origin Place: Italy, (Venice?)
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 329
  • Henry Octavius Coxe , Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars tertia codices Graecos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Oxford (1854) , p. 234 [Link]
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 1: Oxford, Turnhout (2011) , p.61
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 1r - 147r
  • Incipit:
    Maxima cognitio nature et scientia demonstrans ipsam est in corporibus...
    In primo tractatu istius libri continentur decem summe magne... Quia iste liber primus in quo loquitur de rebus sensibilibus naturalibus ...
  • Explicit:
    Et sic completa est intentio nostra in hoc tractatu. Explicit liber de celo et mundo Aristotelis cum commento Auerroys . Deo gracias. Amen.
  • Note:
    No script on f. 147v