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Title

Theologia naturalis

Authors

• Raymond, of Sabunde, -1436
• Gratian, 12th cent

Other related names

• Vischer, Johannes, scribe

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 58
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914739313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597081
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1473931

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1487

Place

Germany

Summary

Latin translation of a Spanish theological and philosophical work attempting to reconcile the natural and supernatural orders of truth, in opposition to the distinction previously made by the Scholastics. The text that appears in printed versions begins after the end of a fairly lengthy prologue (p. 3).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from front flyleaf (f. [i]r).
   
• Incipit and explicit: (p. 1) Ad laudem et honorem altissime et gloriosissime trinitatis ... (p. 397) Ad que dignetur nos perducere Ihesus Christus Filius Dei rex eterne glorie qui est benedictus in secula seculorum Amen.
   

Watermark

some are similar to Piccard II. xvi. 194/195 (earliest: 1492, Königsberg/Köslin); others are similar to Briquet 14873 (Leipzig, 1483).

Extent

200 leaves : 312 x 212 (239 x 145) mm. bound to 316 x 220 mm

Collation

Paper, 200; [i], 1¹²(-1), 2-7¹², 8-18¹⁰, 19⁸(-2); [i], [1-397]; modern pagination in pencil, lower right recto. Signatures in lower right margin, mostly trimmed away.

Support

Paper

Binding

German 15th-century paper incunable leaf over cardboard (Zacour-Hirsch). Text on the incunable leaf appears to be from a copy of Gratian's Decretals, possibly (Goff G-390) Venice, 20 April 1499 or (Goff G-392) Venice, 1 August 1500, both printed by Baptistam de Tortis.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 46 lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Red initials and section headings throughout.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script in the hand of Johannes Vischer (p. 397).

Colophon

Colophon: (p. 397) Explicit liber creaturarum seu nature sive de homine propter quem alie mea tuem parte sunt. Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo septimo. Vicesima octava mensis aprilis per manum Iohannis Vischer [or possibly "vis[c]us"].

Provenance

• Sold by Karl Goldman (Munich), 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Natural theology--Early works to 1800
• Religion--Philosophy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• German
• Paper
• Germany
• Philosophy
• Theology

Licenses

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Decorations

• 1 — Finding tab, p. 1