Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Aristotle

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947594443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/791456274
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4759444

Publisher

Language

Summary

Parchment leaf, formerly trimmed and used as a pastedown, from a manuscript of a Latin translation of the Physics of Aristotle, written in England, ca. 1300. The leaf is frame-ruled in ink for 2 columns of 36 lines and written in a Gothic script. The text is from Book 5 of the Physics, from the middle of Chapter 6 into Chapter 7 (Chapter 7 begins on the verso at the 2-line initial A in red with blue flourishing and marginal extension, with the text Amplius autem determinandum est). Running headings in red and blue, with Ph for Physica on the recto and L V for Liber V on the verso. 4 large paragraph marks in blue or red with contrasting flourishing and 1-line paragraphs alternating between red and blue.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Sold by Maggs Bros., cat. 1249 (1998), no. 6.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Physics--Early works to 1800
• Physical sciences--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Fragments
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• 14th century
• Philosophy
• English
• England
• Fragment
• Science

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