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Title

In metaphysica Aristotelis :

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 764
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212106536
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487517

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Germany

Summary

Anonymous commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics with an index to the Metaphysics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from explicit (f. 82r).
   
• Incipit: Omnes homines natura scire desiderant. Nam quaelibet res ferente natura appetit perfectionem...
   
• Otherwise unknown according to bookseller's description, 1953.
   
• Same commentary is found in UPenn Ms. Codex 763 (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

85 leaves : 291 x 215 (233 x 133) mm. bound to 297 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper i (modern paper) + 85 + i (modern paper); [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum.

Layout

Written in 39-49 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

3-line to 6-line initials with pink, red, blue, green, gray, and gold ornamentation, some with foliate extensions (f. 1r, 8v, 10v, 16v, 23v, 35r, 37v, 49r, 52v); simple 3-line red initials throughout, with rubrication used for capitals, underlining, and paragraph markers.

Script

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

Provenance

• Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 82v — Index, f. 82v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 1r
• fol. 8v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 8v
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 10v
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 16v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 16v
• fol. 23v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 23v
• fol. 35r — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 35r
• fol. 37v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 37v
• fol. 42v — Diagram, f. 42v
• fol. 43r — Diagram, f. 43r
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Diagram, f. 49v
• fol. 52v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 52v
• fol. 57v — Diagram, f. 57v
• fol. 59v — Diagram, f. 59v
• fol. 66v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 66v