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Title

Quatuor libri Aristotelis Stagiritae peripathetici principis De coelo

Authors

• Helmlin, Bernardus

Other related names

• Kreulinger, Nivardus, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 1269
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4417644
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4417644

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1635

Place

Switzerland?

Summary

Two commentaries on Aristotelian texts by Bernardus Helmlin, written by Nivardo Kreulinger: De coelo, divided into De mundo, De natura coeli, De sideribus, and De elementis; and De generatione et corruptione, divided into De generatione subtiali, De alteratione, De quibusdam conditionibus actionibus, De qualitatibus elementorum, and De mixtione. Followed by a compendium on Aristotle's Meteorologica, compiled by Kreulinger.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title for first work (f. i recto).
   

Extent

207 leaves : 196 x 155 (135 x 105) mm. bound to 203 x 166 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii + 207 leaves; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners, [ii], 1-79, 81-118, [vi], 1-11, 13-156, [xi], 1-106, [xvi]; [i, 1-206], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, with blind-ruled covers, 2 pairs of linen ties, and titles and date on spine (Gaskell).

Decoration

Painted borders on title pages (f. i recto, 62r, 145r); painted 10-line initial with Jesuit monogram IHS at start of manuscript (f. 1r); 8- and 7-line initials with decorative penwork in black ink at start of Work 2 and Work 3 (f. 63r, 146r); ink drawing titled Orbis totalis lunae descriptio, showing the orbit and phases of the moon (f. 60r); astronomical drawing in ink showing the major circles of latitude, a meridian, and the directions (f. 182v).

Script

Written in an italic hand.

Provenance

• Previously sold by Maggs Rare Books (London), 2008?
   
• Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Warboys, England), 2008.
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Meteorology--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Quatuor libri Aristotelis Stagiritae peripatheticis principis De Coelo, f. 1r
• fol. 62r — Commentarius in duos libros Aristotelis Stagiritae De generatione, f. 62r
• fol. 145r — Compendium meteoricum, f. 145r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Christ monogram, f. 1r
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 63r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 63r
• fol. 145r — Decorated title page, f. 145r
• fol. 146r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 146r
• fol. 182v — Diagram, f. 182v