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Title

Prolegomena in Aristotelem

Call number

Ms. Codex 1076
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942287243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181587640
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4228724

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with occasional words in Greek

Origin

Date

1598

Place

Italy

Summary

Lecture notes in Latin based on the works of Aristotle, notably the theories on universals, material, form, substance, astronomy, and geometry from the Physics, and logic and rhetoric from the Metaphysics, with tables of contents included at the end of each volume.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Watermark

Briquet Oiseau 12250 (exact date unknown, probably from late 16th century).

Extent

2 volumes (521, 374 leaves) : volume 1: 202 x 135 (150 x 90) mm. bound to 209 x 144 mm; volume 2: 190 x 135 (142 x 92) mm. bound to 195 x 143 mm

Collation

V.1 paper, ii + 521; 1-5⁸ 6² 7-20⁸ 21² 22-28⁸ 29² 30-44⁸ 45² 46-48⁸ 49² 50-52⁸ 53² 54-69⁸; contemporary foliation upper right recto 1-39 [iii] 40-159 [ii] 160-333 [iii] 334-357 [ii] 358-381 [ii] 382-449 [iv] 450-496 [viii] with one unnumbered page between 302-303 and f.240-247 misbound upside-down; v.2 paper, iv + 370; 1-45⁸; contemporary pagination upper outside corner [iv] 1-20, contemporary foliation upper right recto 21-49 [i] 50-302 [iii] 303-365.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, gilt stamped with unidentified coat-of-arms.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines.

Decoration

Both volumes have gauffered edges on pages, v.1 has marginal geometric diagrams on f.108v, 352v, 375r, 377v, 399v-400v, 410r, 422r, and 423v; v.2 has some two-line and three-line initials.

Script

Written in an italic script (possible name of scribe on f.496r, Arnold ?).

Provenance

• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Universals (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800
• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
• Physics--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Logic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Paper
• Diagrams
• Astronomy
• Logic
• Commentary
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r (V.1) — Prolegomena in universam phylosophiam, f. 1r (V.1)
• fol. 40r (V.1) — In libros Aristotelis de physico auditu, f. 40r (V.1)
• fol. 451r (V.1) — In libros coelo et mundo, f. 450r (V.1)
• fol. 1r (V.2) — In universam Aristotelis logicam prolegomena, f. 1r (V.2)

Decorations

• fol. 108v (V.1) — Diagram, f. 108v (V.1)
• fol. 353v (V.1) — Diagram, f. 352v (V.1)
• fol. 376r (V.1) — Diagram, f. 375r (V.1)
• fol. 378v (V.1) — Diagram, f. 377v (V.1)
• fol. 400v (V.1) — Diagram, f. 399v (V.1)
• fol. 401r (V.1) — Diagram, f. 400r (V.1)
• fol. 401v (V.1) — Diagram, f. 400v (V.1)
• fol. 411r (V.1) — Diagram, f. 410r (V.1)
• fol. 423r (V.1) — Diagram, f. 422r (V.1)
• fol. 424v (V.1) — Diagram, f. 423v (V.1)