Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. Soppr. I. 4. 22

Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. Soppr. I. 4. 22

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Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: AB + 349 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 320 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Initial letters in various colours, decorated with images and figures.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines.

    30 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' Long Commentary on Aristotle 's Physics: The textus/commentary parts are separated only by initials.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by four librarians.
    First hand from ff. 1r- 339v .
    Second hand ( 14th century ) from ff. 340r- 344v .
    Third hand ( 14th century ) from ff. 345r- 348v .
    Fourth hand ( 14th century ) from ff. 348v- 349r .
  • Provenance:
    Codex from the convent S. Marci in Florence.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.962f.
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 69v
  • Note:
    Text is in the new translation, but in between, we have another translation (cf. ff. 40r , 43v and 69v ). Averroes ' commentary is given in form of glosses in the margin.
Aristotle Physica 70r - 142v
  • Note:
    Text is in the old translation. Averroes ' commentary is given in form of glosses in the margin.
Aristotle De caelo 142v - 206r
Aristotle Meteorologica 206r - 246v
  • Note:
    At the end of the Metheora (on ff. 243v- 246v , a chapter of De mineralibus is added without distinction.
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 248r - 274v
Aristotle De anima 274v - 306r
  • Incipit:
    [Commentary:] Sicut philosophus docet in XI de animalibus ...
  • Explicit:
    [Commentary:] Explicit summa super librum de anima secundum fratrem Thomam de Aquino ordinis predicatorum.
  • Note:
    In the margins, a later hand added the entire commentary of Thomas Aquinas .
Aristotle De plantis 306v - 322v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de vegetabilibus correctus a magistro Petro de Tauntoner.
  • Note:
    The text has a prologue.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 323r - 335v
Aristotle De causis 345r - 348v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de causis sive de intelligentiis sive de essencia pure bonitatis.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 70r - 142v
  • Incipit:
    Liber I Incipit Foeliciter ...
  • Note:
    Averroes ' commentary is given in form of glosses in the margin. Text is in the old translation. The prologue is missing. Where we also have another translation (cf. ff. 70r , 73v , 76v , 81r , 86r , 112v and 130r ), the textus is included into the commentary of Averroes . Cf. a little after the beginning of the fifth book: "Quia est continuum quod tangitur ... [written by another hand of the 14th century :] Dubitavit autem utique aliquis et de scire. Hec lictera tota est secundum novam translationem; debet poni in fine huius quinti, ante illam particulam 'de ortu quidem, et cetera', que tamen secundum translationem arabicam et grecam non est de textu".
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 348v - 349r
  • Explicit:
    ...secundum suas formas mediantibus...
  • Note:
    There is no title and the text ends abruply.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 69v
  • Note:
    Averroes ' commentary is given in form of glosses in the margin.
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia spiritus et animae 335v - 344v
  • Note:
    This is the translation of John of Seville .