Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Metaphisica, De anima, & Meteorologia

Other related names

• Rosanus, Philippus, former owner
• Rosanus, Joannes, former owner
• Stellati, Benedictus M, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1094
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4247227
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4247227

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of commentaries concerning Aristotle's Metaphysica, De anima, and Meteorologia, as well as the Physiognomonica, which is attributed to Aristotle.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r); author's name has been written over.
   

Extent

220 leaves : 115 x 70 mm. bound to 120 x 78 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 220 + i; [1-220]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; contemporary pagination for each work in upper outer corners, where p. 1-67 correspond to f. 7r-40r, p. 1-72 correspond to f. 47r-82v, p. 1-112 correspond to f. 99r-155r, and p. 1-66 correspond to f. 177r-219v.

Support

Paper

Binding

Cloth with gilt title on spine.

Layout

Written in 14 long lines.

Decoration

Title has border with birds and foliage (f. 3r); vignettes: full page pen-and-ink drawings of animals bearing banners decorated with crests bearing a grasshopper and three ears of wheat (f. 2r, 42r, 84r, 158r), full page pen-and-ink drawing of a pastoral scene (f. 43r), full page pen-and-ink drawings of astronomical and meteorological bodies (f. 85r-86v), full page pen-and-ink drawing of what may be a podium with skull and crossbones resting on top (f. 220r).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Signatures of Philippus Rosanus (f. 87v) and Joannes [Q?] Rosanus (f. 157v).
   
• Dedicatory inscription, "Ad usum F. Bened. M. Stellati, in memoriam F. Casimiri Panza ipsi donatus in conventu S. Mariae super Taburnum die XVIII augusti 1730" (f. 1r).
   
• "R. S." stamp inside lower cover.
   
• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
• Soul--Early works to 1800
• Psychology--Early works to 1850
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Physiognomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Drawing, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Decorated title page, f. 3r
• fol. 42r — Drawing, f. 42r
• fol. 43r — Drawing, f. 43r
• fol. 84r — Drawing, f. 84r
• fol. 85r — Drawing, f. 85r
• fol. 85v — Drawing, f. 85v
• fol. 86r — Drawing, f. 86r
• fol. 86v — Drawing, f. 86v
• fol. 87v — Owner signature, f. 87v
• fol. 158r — Drawing, f. 158r
• fol. 220r — Drawing, f. 220r