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

Title

Disputations on the Physics, Metaphysics and De anima of Aristotle

Call number

Ms. Codex 7
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122630881
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1469170

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1599

Place

Italy

Summary

Consists of 24 disputations on the Physics, 6 disputations on the Metaphysics and 6 disputations on the De anima. Each of the disputations is divided into several questions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written on the recto of the front flyleaf: Pertinet ad Capistrani Locum.
   
• A loose slip of paper containing a short, fragmentary text in Italian has been inserted. It appears to be contemporary with the text.
   

Extent

260 leaves: 190 x 121 (150 x 102) mm. bound to 192 x 130 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 160 + i (contemporary paper); [1-260]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary limp vellum leaf from a music manuscript, most likely containing the notation for the religious motet, Tribus miraculis.

Layout

Written in 31 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

Diagrams (f. 84v, 85v, 86r, 86v); manicules (for example, f. 1v, 3r).

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1992.
   

Subjects topical

• Physics--Early works to 1800
• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
• Soul--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Diagrams
• Italy
• Philosophy
• Paper
• Commentary

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Front cover
• fol. 1v — Manicule, f. 1v
• fol. 3r — Manicule, f. 3r
• fol. 5r — Manicule, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Manicule, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Manicule, f. 7r
• fol. 10r — Manicule, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Manicule, f. 13r
• fol. 84v — Diagram, f. 84v
• fol. 85v — Diagram, f. 85v
• fol. 86r — Diagram, f. 86r
• fol. 86v — Diagram, f. 86v
• fol. 88v — Manicule, f. 88v