Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Commentaries on the De generatione et corruptione and Analytica

Call number

Ms. Codex 768
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212119772
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487532

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1550

Place

Italy

Summary

Anonymous commentaries on two works of Aristotle: De generatione et corruptione and Analytica posteriora. Also includes a table of contents to first work (f. ii recto-v recto).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Solent in initio suorum operum...
   
• Incipit (f. 322r): In cognitionem scientiam...
   

Extent

412 leaves : 127 x 87 (98 x 62) mm. bound to 135 x 90 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 412 + i (modern paper); [v], [1-407]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Layout

Written in 16-21 long lines.

Script

Written in a humanistic script in what appears to be a single hand, with table of contents and some marginal notes possibly in another hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Adalbert Lauter (Munich), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Ontology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Philosophy
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper
• Commentary

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Annotationum in duos libros Aristotelis de generatione et corruptione, f. 1r
• fol. 322r — In duos libros Aristotelis Stagiritae posteriorum analyticoru[m] brevium annotationum, f. 322r

Decorations

• fol. 25r — Drawing, Triangle, f. 25r