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Title

Commentarius in IV libros de coelo Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus

Authors

• Zorn, Johannes

Call number

Ms. Codex 770
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487537
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487537

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1650

Place

Germany

Summary

Three anonymous commentaries on works of Aristotle: De caelo, Meteorologica and De generatione et corruptione.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Corpore naturali in communi eiusque proprietatibus exsplicatis ad species pergit Aristoteles.
   
• Incipit (f. 80r): Licet communiter ...
   
• Incipit (f. 118r): Item horum librorum ...
   
• Includes formal title pages (f. i recto, 79r, 117r).
   

Extent

209 leaves, ill. : 197 x 158 (172 x 120) mm. bound to 209 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 209 + ii (contemporary paper); [i], 1-58, [ii], 59-195, 195-203, [204-205]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards.

Layout

Written in 21-24 long lines.

Decoration

Includes nine illustrations in ink between f. 58 and 59 and one at f. 92v, as well as numerous astronomical diagrams incorporated in the text.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with marginal notes in additional hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1952.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Diagram, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Diagram, f. 27r
• fol. 28r — Diagram, f. 28r
• fol. 32v — Diagram, f. 32v
• fol. 41r — Diagram, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
• fol. 46v — Diagram, f. 46v
• fol. 58v — Illustration, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Illustration, f. 59r
• fol. 92v — Illustration, f. 92v
• fol. 96v — Diagram, f. 96v