United Kingdom, Cambridge, Trinity College, JBA 1554

Two Fragments
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 2 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    Two leaves, probably of the same book. Found in the bundle Trinity College, Junior Bursar's Accounts 1550-1563. Wrapper linings (No 85 and 183) of Year 1554, both still pasted to the wrapper.
  • Decoration:
    One can see blue initials flourished in red. We have paraphs in red.
  • Layout:
    Written space of f. 85r has the measures:
    Text is set in 2 columns. Written space of f. 183r has the measures:

    64 written lines on f. 85r .
    71 written lines on f. 183r .
  • Hand Description:
    Text on f. 85r is written in a gothic rotunda bookhand. Blocks of text and commentary alternate, the text, in larger script, on every second line.
    Text on f. 183r is written in low-grade but proficient a gothic rotunda bookhand.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: England
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 2: Cambridge, Turnhout (2013) , pp. 179f.
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 183r - 183r
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 85r - 85r
  • Note:
    A part of Book III,1.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 183r - 183r
  • Incipit:
    Virtutes quidem sensibiles quedam sunt necessarie in esse animalium...
  • Note:
    Compendium of De sensu et sensato.