Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Commentaries on De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica

Authors

• Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280

Other related names

• Franchini, Giuseppe, former owner

Call number

LJS 482
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4741544
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4741544

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1275 and 1299

Place

Toulouse?, France

Summary

Commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus. The second work is preceded by a table of contents listing chapter headings (f. 25r-26v). Medieval annotations in side margins.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger; titles for component works from explicits (f. 23v, 103r).
   
• Most leaves have damage at the upper edge and have been repaired with modern parchment.
   

Extent

104 leaves : 301 x 223 (211 x 140) mm. bound to 330 x 244 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 104 ; [1-104] ; modern foliation in pencil, right margin recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Parchment spine and paper boards.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 46-50 lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

Historiated initial I showing a Dominican friar, probably meant to be Albertus Magnus (f. 27r); 2-line initials in red with blue flourishing throughout first work (f. 1r-23v); 2-line and 3-line initials alternating between red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing throughout second work (f. 25r-103r); occasional red or blue paragraph marks in second work (f. 28r-99r); rubrication and chapter numbers in side margins in red throughout; small sketch of face (f. 81r). The running headings with L[ibris] top center verso and a roman numeral for the book number top center recto, all in red, are only occasionally visible at the damaged upper edge of leaves.

Script

Written in Gothic script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Giuseppe Franchini (ownership stamp, Prof. Giuseppe Franchini, back flyleaf verso).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 July 2006, lot 56, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Meteorology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Annotations
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber de generatione et corruptione, f. 1r
• fol. 25r — Liber metheorarum, f. 25r

Decorations

• fol. 27r — Historiated initial, Initial I, Albertus Magnus[?], f. 27r
• fol. 81r — Drawing, Face, f. 81r
• fol. 82r — Manicule, f. 82r
• fol. 83v — Manicule, f. 83v
• fol. 86v — Manicule, f. 86v
• fol. 87v — Manicule, f. 87v
• fol. 88r — Manicule, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Manicule, f. 88v
• fol. 89v — Drawing, Face, f. 89v
• fol. 89v — Manicule, f. 89v
• fol. 90r — Drawing, Face, f. 90r
• fol. 91r — Drawing, Face, f. 91r
• fol. 91v — Drawing, Face, f. 91v
• fol. 92r — Drawing, Face, f. 92r
• fol. 92r — Manicule, f. 92r
• fol. 94v — Manicule, f. 94v