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Title

Metaphysics

Authors

• Aristotle

Other related names

• William, of Moerbeke, ca. 1215-1286, translator

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 763
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212105073
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487516

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Germany

Summary

Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics into Latin by Guilelmus of Moerbeke, with an anonymous commentary and an index to the Metaphysics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution of translator supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Omnes homines natura scire desiderant. Signum autem est...
   
• Incipit (f. 94r): Omnes homines natura scire desiderant. Nam quaelibet res ferente natura appetit perfectionem ...
   
• Same commentary as UPenn Ms. Codex 764 (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

185 leaves : 291 x 218 (187 x 119) mm. bound to 314 x 222 mm

Foliation

Paper, 185; [1-185]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped half calf over wooden boards, with 2 ornamented clasps.

Layout

Written in 31 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Rubricated headings, capitals, paragraph marks, and underlining; several manicules (for example, f. 62r, 63r, 54r).

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand, with marginal and interlinear annotations in a second hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Metaphysics, f. 1r
• fol. 94r — Commentary, f. 94r
• fol. 181r — Index, f. 181r

Decorations

• fol. 47r — Manicule, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Manicule, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Manicule, f. 48r
• fol. 50r — Manicule, f. 50r
• fol. 50v — Manicule, f. 50v
• fol. 51r — Manicule, f. 51r
• fol. 51v — Manicule, f. 51v
• fol. 52r — Manicule, f. 52r
• fol. 53r — Manicule, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Manicule, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Manicule, f. 54r
• fol. 55r — Manicule, f. 55r
• fol. 57v — Manicule, f. 57v
• fol. 58r — Manicule, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Manicule, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Manicule, f. 59r
• fol. 59v — Manicule, f. 59v
• fol. 60r — Manicule, f. 60r
• fol. 60v — Manicule, f. 60v
• fol. 61r — Manicule, f. 61r
• fol. 61v — Manicule, f. 61v
• fol. 62r — Manicule, f. 62r
• fol. 62v — Manicule, f. 62v
• fol. 63r — Manicule, f. 63r
• fol. 64v — Manicule, f. 64v
• fol. 65r — Manicule, f. 65r
• fol. 65v — Manicule, f. 65v
• fol. 151v — Manicule, f. 151v
• fol. 154r — Manicule, f. 154r