Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Brevis tractatus de meteoris

Authors

• Guevetanus, Stephanus
• Labus, Jacobus

Other related names

• Venuti, Francisco, of Corbon, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 1174
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4307036
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4307036

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1670-1671

Place

Pisa

Summary

Two philosophical works by different authors, recorded by the same scribe. The first is a treatise on meteors; the second is a commentary on Aristotle's De anima. The opening of the first work suggests it was a supplement to other lectures on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione. In this three-chapter work, the second and third chapters, although titled "Meteors which occur in water" and "Meteors which occur on earth," do not mention meteors. The water chapter covers the names of different-sized bodies of water, tides, and salinity. The earth chapter covers subterranean fires, earthquakes, metals, and fossils. The second work, on the soul, discusses the nature of the soul according to Aristotle's divisions into vegetative, sensitive, and intellective. Stain from a finding tab remains on f. 44.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from titles and authors of component works in preface (f. 1r).
   

Watermark

Later variations of Briquet Aigle 81 (1475), Tête humaine 15717 (1518); mark with similarities to Agneau pascal, though the lamb appears more like a mule, and the flag more like a flying dove.

Extent

128 leaves : 189 x 133 (152 x 105) mm. bound to 192 x 144 mm

Collation

Paper, 128; 1¹⁶(-1) 2-4¹⁶ 5¹⁴ 6-8¹⁶ 9⁴(-4); modern pencil foliation, upper right recto; catchwords, lower right verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, with leather laces near spine.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines; text block outlined in drypoint.

Script

Written in a cursive script by Francisco Venuti Corbonensi (inside upper cover, f. 1r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Francisco Venuti Corbonensi (ex libris note, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Soul--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Physical sciences--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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