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Title

Compendiosa expositio in libros de Physico auditu /

Authors

• Cottunio, Giovanni, 1572-1657

Other related names

• Bertoia, Domenico, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 34
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1469651
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1469651

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1659

Place

Padua

Summary

Commentary to Aristotle's Physics. Notes from lectures given by Giovanni Cottunio, transcribed by Domenico Bertoia. This commentary is of particular importance because of its connection to Cottunio and the Paduan Aristotelians, who were among the last opponents of Galileo and the new science in Italian universities.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r). Same title given in colophon (f. 162r).
   
• Loose leaf between f. 16-17 contains notes written in Bertoia's hand. Loose leaf between f. 36-37 contains notes both in Bertoia's hand and in a different, contemporary hand.
   

Extent

163 leaves : 202 x 146 (163 x 122) mm. bound to 209 x 154 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 163; [i, 1-160, ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary pasteboard with a brown paper spine over pasteboard. The upper cover contains a contemporary pen-and-ink drawing depicting Aristotle, with the caption "Aristoteles perfici nequit."

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Gift of The Friends of the Library, December 1993.
   

Subjects topical

• Physics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• Front cover — Drawing, Aristoteles, Front cover