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Title

Expositio in libros Posteriorum Aristotelis

Authors

• Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428

Call number

Oversize LJS 224
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959387343503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/839681222
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5938734

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1425 and 1475

Place

Verona?, Italy

Summary

Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior analytics, in which syllogistic reasoning is applied to scientific proof or demonstration. The first and second gatherings end with the text written in the lower margin of the last verso, as if lacking space and nevertheless finishing before the start of the next gathering (f. 13v, 23v). Occasional marginal corrections and notes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from later inscription (f. 1v).
   

Extent

150 leaves : 286 x 217 (180-184 x 135-145) mm. bound to 302 x 230 mm

Foliation

Paper, 150; 1¹⁴(-1, pastedown) 2-3¹⁰ 4-6¹² 7-11¹⁰ 12-13¹² 14⁸(-1, pastedown). Catchwords on the last verso of each gathering except the first, ninth, and last (f. 23v, 33v, 45v, 57v, 69v, 79v, 89v, 109v, 119v, 131v, 143v). Some signatures visible in later gatherings, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (15th-century) half calf over boards, with remnants of 2 pairs of clasps; rebacked.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 43-60 lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

7 geometric diagrams in red and black (inside upper cover); 21-line drawing of Christ in the tomb in black and red ink in first column of text, surrounded by the opening words of the text in calligraphic letters (f. 2r); several 2-line to 7-line initials in red ink and red paragraph marks and initials touched with red in first 3 gatherings (f. 1r-45v). 4-line to 8-line initials in red ink with red penwork, or blue ink with red penwork; 14-line blue initial with red penwork and display lettering for the first words of the section (f. 100r); alternating blue and red paragraph marks in remaining gatherings. Correction for erroneous decorated initial (f. 74v). Drawing in ink of a head in profile (inside lower cover).

Script

Written in Gothic cursive script by at least 3 hands, with the first line of text in some sections in larger calligraphic script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Brother John of the Chapel of Verona (contemporary inscription, Iste liber est fratris Johannis a capello Veronensis, f. 1r).
   
• Sold at auction at Butterfield & Butterfield (San Francisco), 21 October 1997, lot 3750, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Logic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Diagrams
• Commentary
• Paper
• Logic
• Italy
• Italian
• Philosophy
• Science

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Diagram, Inside front cover
• fol. 2r — Miniature, Christ in the tomb, f. 2r
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 3v
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 6r
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 8r
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 9v
• fol. 11v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 11v
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 12v
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 14r
• fol. 16r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 16r
• fol. 19r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 19r
• fol. 21r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 21r
• fol. 23r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 23r
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 24r
• fol. 25r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 25r
• fol. 27v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 27v
• fol. 29r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 29r
• fol. 31r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 31r
• fol. 33r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 33r
• fol. 35r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 35r
• fol. 36v — Decorated initial, Initial U, Face, f. 36v
• fol. 37v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 37v
• fol. 38v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 38v
• fol. 40v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 40v
• fol. 41v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 41v
• fol. 43v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 43v
• fol. 45r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 45r
• fol. 47r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 47r
• fol. 48v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 48v
• fol. 50r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 50r
• fol. 51r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 51r
• fol. 52r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 52r
• fol. 52v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 52v
• fol. 53v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 53v
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 55r
• fol. 56v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 56v
• fol. 58r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 58r
• fol. 60r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 60r
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 61r
• fol. 62v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 62v
• fol. 64r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 64r
• fol. 65r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 65r
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 67v
• fol. 70v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 70v
• fol. 73r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 73r
• fol. 74v — Decorated initial, Initial D (corrected with an A), f. 74v
• fol. 77r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 77r
• fol. 80r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 80r
• fol. 82r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 82r
• fol. 85r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 85r
• fol. 87r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 87r
• fol. 91v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 91v
• fol. 94r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 94r
• fol. 96r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 96r
• fol. 97v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 97v
• fol. 100r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 100r
• fol. 103r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 103r
• fol. 104v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 104v
• fol. 109r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 109r
• fol. 111r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 111r
• fol. 112v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 112v
• fol. 114v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 114v
• fol. 116v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 116v
• fol. 120r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 120r
• fol. 122r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 122r
• fol. 125r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 125r
• fol. 129v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 129v
• fol. 132r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 132r
• fol. 135r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 135r
• fol. 137r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 137r
• fol. 139r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 139r
• fol. 140v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 140v
• fol. 142v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 142v
• fol. 144v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 144v
• fol. 146v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 146v
• fol. 149r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 149r
• Inside back cover — Drawing, Face, Inside back cover