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Title

Pros mathēmatikous ... etc.

Authors

• Sextus, Empiricus
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Isidore, Metropolitan of Kiev, d. 1463, scribe
• Bodeck, Nicholai von, 17th cent, former owner
• Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, former owner

Call number

LJS 380
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958041303503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802952068
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs380.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5804130 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3x921k27

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Ancient Greek

Origin

Date

between 1430 and 1450

Place

Italy

Summary

Critique of learning, divided into the disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, music, logic, physics, and ethics. A short work titled Dialexeis or Dissoi logoi, which was often attributed to Sextus Empiricus and included in manuscripts of his work, is at the end of the volume.

Notes

• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 5. f.60v-69v: [Pros astrologous]
   
• 6. f.69v-75v: [Pros mousikous]
   
• 7. f.75v-167r: [Pros logikous]
   
• 8. f.167v-243v: [Against physicists]
   
• 9. f.243v-267r: [Pros ethikous]
   
• 10. f.267r-272v: [Dialexeis or Dissoi logoi]
   
• 1. f.5r-35v: [Pros grammatikous]
   
• 3. f.46v-57r: [Against geometricians]
   
• 2. f.35v-46r: [Against rhetoricians]
   
• 4. f.57v-60v: [Against arithmeticians]
   

Extent

269 leaves : 162 x 106 (112 x 72) mm bound to 170 x 112 mm

Collation

Parchment, 269; 1-25¹⁰ 26-27⁸ 28⁴(-1, last leaf is pastedown); 1-184, 190-274.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Mid-16th-century gilt morocco.

Layout

Written in 27 long lines; ruled in drypoint with vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

4-line initials at the beginning of sections in pale red ink; rubrics and headings in pale red ink.

Script

Written in Greek minuscule script by Isidore of Kiev.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, May 2000.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Formerly owned by Nicholai von Bodeck of Danzig, 1652 or 1657 (inscription on lost front flyleaf, documented by Hermann Mutschmann, "Die Überlieferung der Schriften der Sextus Empiricus," Hermes 64 (1909), p. 281).
   
• Probably entered the Vatican Library with a collection of Isidore's papers and books, Vat. Lat. 3951 (as recorded in inventories up to 1518 and not thereafter; probably taken during the sack of Rome in 1527).
   

Subjects topical

• Skepticism--Early works to 1800
• Education, Greek--Controversial literature

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Treatise
• Commentary
• Grammar
• Mathematics
• Astrology
• Logic
• Science
• Italian

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Table of contents

• fol. 5r — Pros grammatikous, f. 5r
• fol. 35v — Against rhetoricians, f. 35v
• fol. 46v — Against geometricians, f. 46v
• fol. 57v — Against arithmeticians, f. 57v
• fol. 60v — Pros astrologous, f. 60v
• fol. 69v — Pros mousikous, f. 69v
• fol. 75v — Pros logikous, f. 75v
• fol. 167v — Against physicists, f. 167v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial, Kappa, f. 2r
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial Kappa, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial Alpha, f. 5r
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial Gamma, f. 5r
• fol. 6v — Decorated initial, Initial Epsilon, f. 6v
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial Pi, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial, Initial Delta, f. 11r
• fol. 16v — Decorated initial, Initial Alpha, f. 16v
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial, Initial Epsilon, f. 18r
• fol. 19v — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Decorated initial, Initial Omicron, f. 20r
• fol. 27r — Decorated initial, Initial Omicron, f. 27r
• fol. 29v — Decorated initial, Initial Eta, f. 29v
• fol. 35v — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 35v
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial, Initial Epsilon, f. 46v
• fol. 48r — Diagram, f. 48r
• fol. 50v — Diagram, f. 50v
• fol. 57v — Decorated initial, Initial Epsilon, f. 57v
• fol. 60v — Decorated initial, Initial Pi, f. 60v
• fol. 64r — Diagram, f. 64r
• fol. 69v — Decorated Initial, Initial Eta, f. 69v
• fol. 75v — Decorated initial, Initial Omicron, f. 75v
• fol. 78r — Decorated initial, Initial Eta, f. 78r
• fol. 119v — Decorated initial, Initial Omicron, f. 119v
• fol. 133r — Decorated initial, Initial Epsilon, f. 133r
• fol. 133r — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 133r
• fol. 149r — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 149r
• fol. 150v — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 150v
• fol. 152v — Decorated initial, Initial Pi, f. 152v
• fol. 167v — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 167v
• fol. 169v — Decorated initial, Initial Tau, f. 169v
• fol. 171v — Decorated initial, Initial Epsilon, f. 171v