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Title

Philosophical and legal commentaries

Authors

• Froelich, Guilhelmus
• Gio, Georgius
• Porphyry, ca. 234-ca. 305

Other related names

• Nostitz, Christoph Wentzel, Graf von, 1648-1712, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1051
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4019075
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4019075

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin; last work is in Italian

Origin

Date

1664-1667

Place

Wroclaw, Poland ;
Pont-à-Mousson, France

Summary

A collection of works bound together of which the first four are Aristotelian commentaries, three on lectures by Froelich and one (the third) signed perhaps by the owner of the manuscript. The fifth work, dealing with Roman law and Justinian's Institutes, specifically the ius privatum, was dictated by Georgius Gio, Professor Ordinary, perhaps at Pont-à-Mousson. The final, incomplete work concerns the papacy and is written on slightly narrower pages.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit (1st work): Aristoteles natione Macedo, patria Stagyrites, natus est patre Nichomacho, Phoestiade matre ... (f. 3r).
   
• Incipit (2nd work): Sicut Logicae finis est, habere perfectam notitiam entis ... (f. 139r).
   
• Incipit (3rd work): Post accuratam de pre [?ali?] ut sic disputationem, quam octo praecadentibus physica ... (f. 183r).
   
• Incipit (4th work): Philosophus universam naturae totius historiam in communi exhibiturus, octo libros composuit, quibus titulum praefixit: de physicam ... (f. 205r) Explicit: ... sit luna sub pedibus eius, sit sol, sint reliqua sidera, sint ipsi coeli, quos sub umbra, patrocinis illis defensum . Finis (f. 523r).
   
• Incipit (5th work): Cum jurisprudentia finis sit justitia ... (f. 525r).
   

Extent

633 leaves : 192 x 164 (165 x 125) mm. bound to 201 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, 633; highly irregular foliation begins at f. 183 (with beginning of third text): 1-19, [iii], 1(=f. 205, first page of fourth text)-19, pp. 20-23, f. 24-120, [i], 121-140, 149-159, [i], 160-163, 163-172, 123-127, [i], 128-129, 180-192, [i], 193-197, [iii], 198-199, 201-221, [i], 222-225, 225-243, [i], 267-289, [i], 290-316, [i], 317-339, [i], foliation ends with fourth work. Modern pencil foliation in pencil, [1-635]; upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment; spine reads Philosophia et ius privat script a C.W.S.R.[I?].C. de N.R.

Layout

Written in 27-36 long lines.

Decoration

8 diagrams outlining Porphyry's predicaments, f. 88r-91v; Tree of Porphyry decorated with a coat of arms related to those on bookplate (f. 126r).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Engraved bookplate inside upper cover: coat of arms with C.W.G.V.N. below, attributed to C.W. Graf von Nostitz; illegible signature on title page of first work (f. 2r).
   
• Scientia Antiquariat (Alen in Württemberg, Germany), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Roman law--History
• Logic--Early works to 1800
• Physics--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Commentationes philosophicae organum Aristotelis, f. 2r
• fol. 138r — Compendium physicae in communi Breslae, f. 138r
• fol. 182r — Commentationes in quatuor libros Aristotelis de coelo et mundo, f. 182r
• fol. 204r — Disputationes philosophicae in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis, f. 204r
• fol. 524r — Ius privatum, f. 524r
• fol. 608r — [Papal history?], f. 608r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 2r — Owner signature, f. 2r
• fol. 88r — Diagram, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Diagram, f. 88v
• fol. 89r — Diagram, f. 89r
• fol. 89v — Diagram, f. 89v
• fol. 90r — Diagram, f. 90r
• fol. 90v — Diagram, f. 90v
• fol. 91r — Diagram, f. 91r
• fol. 91v — Diagram, f. 91v
• fol. 126r — Diagram, Tree of Porphyry, f. 126r