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

Title

De praeceptis decalogi ... etc.

Authors

• Kern, Georg
• White, Stephen
• Brandis, Christoph

Other related names

• Huober, Johannes, scribe
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 772
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487545
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487545

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1608

Place

Dillingen

Summary

Three separate works including a commentary by Georg Kern, Stephen White and Christoph Brandis on De decem praeceptis of Thomas Aquinas, an anonymous work on theological controversies, and an anonymous introduction to Aristotle's ethical works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title for predominant work (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit (1st work, f. 1r): Decalogi nomine nihil aliud illig[av]imus quam decem illa praecepta ab ipso Deo scripta, promulgata, ac tradita in duabus tabulis lapideis ...
   
• Explicit (f. 202v): ... factata ... a reverendo patre Georgio Kern, patre Stephano Vito et reverendo patre Christophoro Brandis ...
   
• Incipit (2nd work, f. 236r): Omnes huius temporis controversiae ad tres generales revocant.
   
• Incipit (3rd work, f. 256r): Antequam ad particulares materias descendamus quaedam breviter nobis ...
   

Extent

415 leaves : 200 x 154 (160 x 110) mm. bound to 215 x 172 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 415 + iv (contemporary paper); [1-415], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Each work separately paginated, upper outer corners: [1], 2-15, 19-405 in ink, 406-407 in pencil, 33 leaves blank, 1-31 in ink, 32-37 in pencil, 1 page and 1 leaf blank, 1-39 in ink, 40-316 in pencil, 1 leaf blank. References in this record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped pigskin.

Layout

Written in 18-23 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script in the hand of Joa. Huober (f. 1r).

Provenance

• Formerly in the collection at the Carthusian monastery, Buxheim (note, f. 1r).
   
• Sold by Chardin, 9 Feb. 1824, lot 68.
   
• Sold by Thomas Thorpe in 1835, no. 763, to Sir Thomas Phillipps.
   
• Phillipps ms. 4555 sold at auction at Sotheby's, 19 May 1913, lot 666.
   
• Appears in Thomas Thorp's catalog (1948), no. 3.
   
• Sold by Karl Goldmann, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Theology--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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