Extent: 211 leaves : paper ; 290 x 198 (228 x 153) mm bound to 299 x 211 mm +
Note:
Title, author, and date from caption heading (f. 1r); Zacour-Hirsch uses the title Lectiones super libros physicorum Aristotelis. Binding: Modern half morocco (Zacour-Hirsch). Ms. codex. Incipit: Superiori anno de ea anime particula ageremus ... (f. 1r). A note formerly attached with red wax to f. 151v is now laid in between f. 151v and f. 152r. Collation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 211 + ii (modern paper); 1¹¹ 2-13¹² 14¹⁵ 15⁹ 16-17¹² 18⁸; gatherings 2-13 signed B-I, K-L, L-N on the recto of their first leaves, lower right corner; gatherings 14-17 have a catchword on the verso of their last leaves, lower right corner; 1-207, [208-211]; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Layout: Written in 30-32 long lines with marginal notes for the first eleven lectures (through f. 19v); text block dimensions temporarily change to 243 x 148 mm at the beginning of the lectures on the fifth book of the Physics (f. 156r-174v). Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand, with f. 161v-164v possibly in a second hand. Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1549 (f. 1r). Purchased, 1952.
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