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Title

Disputationes in duos libros Aristotelis De ortu et interitu sive De generatione et corruptione

Authors

• Joannes Antonius, Father
• Salvaterra, Father

Other related names

• Pesciettus Jacobus Maria, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 1129
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4263548
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4263548

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1680

Place

Genoa

Summary

Commentaries on four works by Aristotle, discussing generation and corruption, second causes, free will, the soul, the being of the real and the impossible, and natural morality. Also includes instructions (with diagrams) for making a sundial.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   

Watermark

Similar to W. A. Churchill 555 (1676), incorporating the coat of arms of Genoa.

Extent

282 leaves : 212 x 148 (180 x 120) mm. bound to 219 x 160 mm

Collation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 282 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁰ 2(-10)¹⁰ 3-27¹⁰ 28-29⁸ 30⁴(-4) 31⁴; signed 1-31 in ink on bottom center of first page of each quire; catchword lower right recto and verso of every leaf; contemporary ink and modern pencil foliation [i], 1-281, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Layout

Written in 28 long lines, text block outlined in drypoint.

Decoration

Sundial diagrams (f. 276v-277v).

Script

Written in a cursive script by Pesciettus Jacobus Maria (f. i recto, 10r).

Provenance

• Sold by Bottega d'Erasmo (Torino, Italy), 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Soul--Early works to 1800
• Scholasticism
• Sundials--Design and construction--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tabula sententiarum et adnotabilium, f. 1r
• fol. 10r — Disputationes in duos libros Aristotelis De ortu et interitu sive De generatione et corruptione, f. 10r
• fol. 151r — Disputationes in libros De anima, f. 151r
• fol. 246v — In Aristotelis Metafisicam, f. 246v
• fol. 259r — In libros ethicorum Aristotelis sive De moribus ad Nichomachum, f. 259r
• fol. 275r — Tractatus de horologiis solaribus cum corum figuris quas sequens pagina distincte indicat, f. 275r

Decorations

• fol. 276v — Diagram, f. 276v
• fol. 277v — Diagram, f. 277v