United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Dd. 5.62

United Kingdom, Cambridge, University Library, Dd. 5.62

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo et Mundo
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 161 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Catchwords throughout the text.
  • Condition Description:
    Slighty stained
  • Decoration:
    Beginnings of sections are written in bold. With diagrams.
  • Layout:
    Text was set in one column

    25 lines
  • Hand Description:
    Byzantine hand
  • Binding Description:
    Bound in boards, with leather spine.
  • Acquisition:
    Bought from the collection of Gerbrandt Anslo possibliy part of the bequest of Edmund Castell .
  • Provenance:
    Owner remarked on f. 1r : Ex Bibliotheca Ansloviana.
History
  • Origin Date: 16th century
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Caelo 1r - 161v
  • Note:
    Divided into four tractates with verious sub-sections.
    The obbreviation אש on 364v- 64v may refer to the translator.