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Title

Lecture notes on Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, and De Animo

Call number

Ms. Codex 861
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3178051
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178051

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1695

Place

Caligari

Summary

Disputations and questions on Aristotle's De caelo, De generatione et corruptione, De anima, and Metaphysica, followed by a Tabula listing the disputations and questions, written by a student at the Collegium Callaritanum Sancti Josephi, a free public school run by the Poveri della Madre de Dio delle scuole pie, in Cagliari, Sardinia.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit: Tractatus primus de mundo et caelo. Hactenus per octo Physicoru[m] libros agimus de corpore ... (p. 1).
   
• Explicit: Callari in Collegio Callaritano Sancti Josephi scholarum pium die quinta Augusti anni salutis mortalibus restitut[ae?] M. DC. LXXXXV. Finis. Laus Deo (p. 166).
   

Watermark

Oval shield quartered by a cross with a crown above it and small dragons rampant holding it on either side.

Extent

90 leaves : 208 x 150 (178 x 118) mm. bound to 213 x 158 mm

Foliation

Paper, 90; [vi], 1-166, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Decoration

Diagram of geocentric spheres of the universe (p. 6).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by H.P. Kraus (Cat. 189, no. 12), April 1958.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• 6 — Diagram, p. 6