#averroes

? Why did the Latin scholastics call Ibn Rushd simply “the Commentator”?

I'm an accountant with a weakness for medieval philosophy, mostly Eriugena and Boethius. Reading Aquinas for the first time, I keep meeting references to "the Philosopher", who is Aristotle, and "the Commentator", who turns out to be Ibn Rushd, Averroes. I'd like…