Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1046

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1046

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 54 + I leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 155 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Foliation from the 17th - 18th century with a counting error between the first and third folio (I + 1, 3 - 55 + I).
  • Collation:
    IV^9 + III^15 + (V-1)^24 + (III-1)^29 + 2 IV^45 + V^55.
    Reclaimers on ff. 8v and 44v .
    Layer counting on the inner margin with the beginning of a new layer (from the 20th century ).
  • Condition Description:
    In parts, the writing strikes through to the opposite side.
  • Decoration:
    Titles in red. Red lombards, partly ornamentally divided. We have rubrication, red paragraph signs, underlinings and line fillings.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns. The written area is 160 x 105-120 mm.

    50 - 51 lines to the page. From f. 15r onward 43 - 44 and from f. 23v onward 38 - 40 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by multiple German hands from the 14th century in textualis.
  • Binding Description:
    Bound in Rome.
  • Provenance:
    This codex belonged to Marsilius de Inghen .
    The Allacci signature (corresponding to the Allacci registry cpl 1949) is missing.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: Germany
  • Dorothea Walz & Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Die historischen und philosophischen Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek (Cod. Pal. Lat. 921 - 1078), Wiesbaden (1999) , pp. 202 - 204 [PAL. LAT. 1046]
Content
Giles of Rome Theoremata de Esse et Essentia 1r - 14v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus de ente et essentia fratris Egidii de ordine eremitarum. Omne esse vel est purum per se existens et infinitum vel est participatum in animo receptum ...

  • Explicit:
    ... Et hoc de esse et essencia dicta sufficiant. Deo gracias. Explicit tractatus de ente et essencia compilatus a fratre Egidio de ordine eremitarum deo gracias.

  • Note:
    Walz , Probst , Zimmermann and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (ed.) give the title as: "Tractatus de ente et essentia".

Averroes On Whether the Active Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it Is Clothed with the Body 15r - 16r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus Averois commentatoris de intellectu. Intentio nostra de hac dictione est, quod prebeamus omnes vias claras et demonstrationes firmas ...

  • Explicit:
    ... et postea hoc est in vita et in morte.

  • Note:
    Walz , Probst , Zimmermann and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (ed.) give the title as: "Tractatus de intellectu".

Averroes De Substantia Orbis 16r - 19v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber de substantia orbis Averois . In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus, ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...

  • Explicit:
    ... et scias, quod hec questio est valde bona. [Crossed out:] Explicit tractatus Averroys de substantia orbis.

Anonymous Commentary on the Metaphysics 19v - 51r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit primus methaphisice. Homnes [!] omnes natura scire desiderant [Met. I, 1], quod probat Thomas tractatu primo, quia unumquodque desiderat suam perfeccionem ...

  • Explicit:
    ... Aristoteles : longus sermo fit quemadmodum qui servorum nihil sanum dicunt.

  • Note:
    Apart from Aristoteles , the text has quotations from Thomas Aquinas , Averroes and Albert the Great .

Anonymous Notabilia in Librum De Animalibus Aristotelis 51r - 51v
  • Incipit:
    Incipiunt notabilia super primum librum de animalibus. Proposiciones abstracte de libro animalium et primo libro primi. Aristoteles : Non oriuntur pili mulieribus loco parbe [!] nisi parum in quibusdam ...

  • Explicit:
    ... item femina est quasi mas occasionatus.

Plato Timaios 51v - 52r
  • Incipit:
    Incipiunt proverbia Platonis tractantis de anima mundi et aliis secretis. Sola virtus est, que res impossibiles ad possibiles redigit ...

  • Explicit:
    ... ut presta forent in virtute indicia.

Claudius Ptolemaeus Almagestum 52r - 52v
  • Incipit:
    Incipiunt proverbia Ptolemei in prologo Almagesti. Conveniens est sapienti pro deo verecundari, cum ea que eis grata cogitat ...

  • Explicit:
    ... propinque vero non ducescunt.

Anonymous Notabilia in Librum I De Caelo Aristotelis 52v - 53r
  • Incipit:
    Incipiunt notabilia in primo de celo et mundo. Per hunc quidem numerum adhibuimus nos ipsos ...

  • Explicit:
    ... ut sit numerus electorum quatuor.

Anonymous Notabilia in Librum De Sensu et Sensato Aristotelis 53r - 53v
  • Incipit:
    Videtur autem autem [!] maxime et propria animalium et communia esse corporis et anime ...

  • Explicit:
    ... ego enim illum ex me natum sciebam esse mortalem.

Thomas Aquinas De Intellectu et Intelligibili 53v - 54v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus elementorum Thome de Aquino ordinis predicatorum. Dubium apud multos esse solet, quomodo elementa sint in mixto ...

  • Explicit:
    ... salvatur enim virtus eorum. Explicit tractatus elementorum mixtionis a fratre Thoma editus ordinis predicatorum.

  • Note:
    Incipit and explicit match the De Mixtione Elementorum by Thomas Aquinas .