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Title

Loyca parva ... etc.

Authors

• Paolo, Veneto, ca. 1370-1428
• Pergola, Paolo della, d. 1455

Other related names

• Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico, former owner

Call number

LJS 457
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958070733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/805393185
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5807073

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1475

Place

Perugia

Summary

Work on scholastic logic used in universities in the late 15th century, followed by a brief logical work by Paolo della Pergola, a student of Paolo Veneto.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from closing rubric of predominant work (f. 87r).
   

Extent

90 leaves : 224 x 152 (170 x 100) mm. bound to 230 x 170 mm

Collation

Paper, i (late 16th- or early 17th-century) + 90 + i (late 16th- or early 17th-century); 1-9¹⁰; [1-90], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Vertical catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower right verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 16th or early 17th-century parchment; leather spine label, Tract[atus] de comp[osito] et divis[o]; arms of Pope Gregory XIII and Jesuit monogram stamped on spine in black ink.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 36 lines.

Decoration

5-line initial in pink, black, green, and gold, with extensions of acanthus leaves, flowers, and gold bezants (f. 1r); pen-and-wash diagram of logical relationships (f. 3v); pen-and-wash diagram in the form of a Porphyrian tree showing a progression from substantia to homo (f. 7v); 2 3-line initials in red at the beginning of the second work (f. 87r); many spaces left empty throughout, with guide letters, for 2-line initials; rubrication and paragraph marks in both text and margins in faint red ink; occasional manicules (for example, f. 22r).

Script

Written in humanistic cursive script by Franciscus Alexandrus de Callio, another member of the community of Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia (f. 87r).

Provenance

• Formerly in the library of the Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico in Rome (inscription, f. 1r).
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2003.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Logic--Early works to 1800
• Logic, Medieval

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Illuminations
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Logic
• Diagrams
• Illumination
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Loyca parva, f. 1r
• fol. 87r — Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso, f. 87r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 3v — Decorated diagram, f. 3v
• fol. 7v — Decorated diagram, Porphyrian tree, f. 7v