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

Title

Tractatus in viii libros Physicorum

Authors

• Herwarth, Friedrich, 1632-1676

Other related names

• Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Hans-Heinrich, 1904-, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1214
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4322642
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4322642

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1668

Place

Dillingen

Summary

A treatise on Aristotle's Physics, summarizing the Physics and breaking them down into more organized and manageable sections. All sections are titled and numbered. Divided into books, which are divided into arguments, which are then divided into articles or inquiries.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. iii recto).
   

Extent

372 leaves : 200 x 160 (155 x 125) mm. bound to 210 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, 372 leaves; [i-iii], 1-9,11-154,156-199, 201-261, 263-299, 301-399, 401-499, 501-599, 601-745; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment with gilt arms of Hans Herwarth (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in a cursive book script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld (coat of arms, upper cover).
   
• Sold by Zentral-Antiauariat (Leipzig), 1967.
   

Subjects topical

• Physics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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