Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4548

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4548

Middle Commentary on the Physics, tr. Balmes.
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 169 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-169.
    A contemporary foliation done with the same ink as the text.
  • Condition Description:
    The condition of the paper is bad, especially in the third third of the manuscript. The transparency of the pages makes it hard to read the text.
  • Decoration:
    No decorations. Numbers of the chapters are given in the left margin.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 1 column.

    About 30 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by one hand. It is a autograph by Abraham de Balmes , as one can read on f. 1r and 2r .
History
  • Origin Date: Not after 1523
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Physics 1r - 169r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber primus de phisico auditu. Istius primi libri intentio prima est perscrutari de causa materiali communi omnibus entibus naturalibus.
  • Explicit:
    Cum iam fecerimus expositionem illus ad plebem etate nostre adolescentie brevi epithomate. Nunc autem usus sum facere hanc expositionem perfectiorem sperans in deum perficere expositionem reliquorum librum Aristothelis . Sit dei nomen semper benedictum. Amen. Finis.
  • Note:
    Translated by Abraham de Balmes . With a prologue by the translator on ff. 1r- 1v . Some personal additions by Balmes marked with the words: "Ait interpres..", cf. ff. 58r and 64v .
  • Colophon:
    Incipit paraphrasis Averroys in libros physicarum auscultationum interprete Abramo de Balmes de litio artium et medicine doctoris maximo.