Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Organon and related texts

Authors

• Aristotle (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004182.html)

Other related names

• Perry, Preston A., former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 15
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1611807
• deRicci: 40

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a late thirteenth-century copy of the Organon and related texts.

Notes

• Tears in fols. 23 and 160; parchment has been used to reinforce edges and repair tears on fols. 50r, 54r, 88r, 133r, and 134r; occasional natural holes in parchment and some discoloration; binding is fragile
   

Extent

Ii+178+i; 280 x 198 mm bound to 290 x 208 mm

Foliation

The first four leaves of each quire are numbered with an alphabetical letter and Arabic numeral; modern foliation in pencil upper right recto; contemporary running heads top center margin

Collation

1-2 (8), 3 (5, +5), 4 (6), 5-12 (8), 13 (10), 14 (2), 15-20 (8), 21 (10), 22 (9, +9), 23 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal lower inner margin verso; some catchwords surrounded by decorated frames lower center margin; fols. 51, 59, 67, 75, 83, 91, 111, 119, 127, 135, 143, 151, 161, 170

Binding

Late nineteenth-century half red straight grain morocco; stamped in gold on spine: "Isagogi of Porphory. Latin MS. XIV [Cent.].","No. 203 in a London sale, June 1818 [per De Ricci]; Preston A. Perry sale, New York, April 21, 1908, no. 263; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Layout

Ruled in lead point and ink in one column of 26 lines; written area: 147 x 112 mm; the work of several scribes; fol. 103 is blank; fol. 178 is blank and ruled; the first flyleaf, possibly bound with the original manuscript, contains two columns of twenty-five lines of text, hard point ruling, cut off at the bottom; on the verso are six lines of so-called "Nonantulan Notation," used, according to Wolf, at Nonantula, near Modena; pricking is visible along the right edge; on the recto, the leaf is numbered 203, with "June 1818" in the upper right corner

Decoration

Twenty decorated initials with foliate extensions of varying lengths begin new books and chapters; fol. 35v features a figured initial by a different artist, with a human figure surrounded by grotesques; charts appear throughout decorated in red and black; annotations and manicules appear throughout; running heads in red identify the various books; paraph markers alternate in blue and red, with occasional flourished initials beginning sections

Script

Rotunda

Provenance

• No. 203 in a London sale, June 1818 [per De Ricci]; Preston A. Perry sale, New York, April 21, 1908, no. 263; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; In the front flyleaf is the bookmark of J. F. Lewis, with notes written above: "Italian, very early 14th century Aristotle: Organon Preceding leaf probably 11th century."; attached to f. 178r is the auction catalogue description for lot 263
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2056, no. 166.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 20, no. 15.

Keywords

• 13th century
• Italy
• Logic

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Leaf from liturgical manuscript [breviary?], 11th or early 12th century
• fol. 1r — Porphyry, Isagoge in Aristotelis Praedicamenta (Introduction to Aristotle's Categories); incipit: Cum sit necessariu[m] g[ri]saurolus [?] et ad ea[m] q[uae] e[st] ap[ud] ari[stotelem] p[rae]dicam[en]tor[um] doct[ri]na[m] nossce q[uid] sit g[enus]; explicit: S[un]t a[u]t[em] ali[a]e q[uid] co[mm]itates u[e]l p[rop]rietes eor[um] q[uae] d[i]c[t]a s[unt] s[ed] sufficia[n]t h[aec] e[tiam] ad dis[tin]ct[i]o[n]em eor[um] c[ommuni]tatis et t[ra]dit[i]o[n]em. d[e]o g[ratias] am[en]. [Fol. 8r]
• fol. 8r — Aristotle Liber Praedicamenta (Catagories); incipit: [A]Equiuoca d[ici]n[tu]r quor[um] solu[m] co[mmun]e e[st] s[ecundum] u[er]o nom[en]; explicit: Forte t[amen] et alii q[ui]da[m] appareb[un]t modi de eo q[uod] e[st] h[abere]s[ed] q[ui] [con]sueruer[un]t dici p[a]ene o[mn]es enu[mer]ati su[n]t. Deo gra[tia]s am[en] am[en] am[en]. [fol. 21v]
• fol. 22r — Aristotle, De interpretatione (On interpretation); incipit: Primum oportet [con]stituere q[uid] sit nom[en] et q[uid] u[er]bu[m] et postea q[uid] neg[atio] et q[uid] affir[m]atio; explicit: si[mu]l eni[m] eide[m] no[n] [con]ti[n]git e[ss]e [contrar]ia. d[e]o gra[tia]s. [fol. 29r]
• fol. 29r — Gilbertus Porretanus, Liber sex principioum; incipit: Forma est [com]po[sition]i [con]ti[n]ge[n]s si[m]plici et i[n]uariab[i]li e[ss]entia [con]siste[n]s; explicit: et h[aec] d[e] sex p[ri]n[cipi]us d[o]c[trin]a[m] sufficia[n]t deo gratias. [fol. 35v]
• fol. 35v — Aristotle, Analytica priora (Prior Analytics); incipit: Primum o[portet] dice[re] c[ir]ca q[uid] et d[e] q[uo] est [in]te[n]tio; explicit: si a[utem] n[on] no[n] e[r]it unu[m] ini[us] signu[m]. Deo gra[ti]as am[en] am[en] ame[n]. [fol. 75v]
• fol. 76r — Aristotle, Analytica posteriora (Posterior Analytics); incipit: Omnis doctrina et o[mn]is dissciplina i[n]t[e]llect[iv]a ex p[re]hesiste[n]ti cog[ni]t[i]o[n]e fit; explicit: h[oc] a[utem] e[sse] si[mi]l[ite]r se h[abe]nt ad r[ati]o[n]em {?} rer[um].
• fol. 104r — Aristotle, Topica (Topics); incipit: Propositum q[ui]d[e]m negotii e[st] methodum inuenire; explicit: In prohemio alia t[ame]n statio In laudes u[niuersa]liu[m] p[ro]positu[m] t[er]minat R[?] tractatu[m]. [Fol. 159r]
• fol. 159v — Aristotle, De Sophisticis Elenchis (On Sophistical Refutation); incipit: De sophisticis autem elencis et de his q[ui] uident[ur] q[ui]dem elenci s[ed] no[n] elenci su[n]t; explicit: opus onus si a[utem] artis indulsia[ne]m Inuenictis{?} a[u]t[em] multas h[abe]re grates am[en] am[en] am[en]. [Fol. 177v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial G
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 29r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 35v — Initial P with a hooded figure
• fol. 61r — Inhabited initial P, Dragon
• fol. 76r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 93r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 111v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 117v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 122r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 128r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 136v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 147v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 150v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 154r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 159v — Decorated initial d
• fol. 168r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 170r — Decorated initial H