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Title

Lecture notes on the Physica

Other related names

• Hirningerus, Joannes, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 837
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3177979
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3177979

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1609

Place

Ingolstadt

Summary

Lecture notes on Aristotle's Physics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Zacour-Hirsch identify the lecturer as an unnamed Jesuit scholar.
   
• Incipit: Prooemium Physicae. Antequam ad ipsum Ar[istote]lem explicandum accedamus ... (f. 1r).
   
• Explicit: Finiti feliciter hi octo Physicorum Ar[istote]lis libri 8 Julii hora pomeridiana circiter tertius. A[nn]o 1609. Finis libri octavi & ultimi Physicorum Ar[istote]lis (f. 260r).
   

Watermark

f. 3 bears a small crowned creature which also appears in Ms. Codex 836.

Extent

261 leaves : 185 x 156 (154 x 106) mm. bound to 196 x 168 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 261 + vi (contemporary paper); [xvii], 17-94, 96-101, 103-114, 114-119, 113-140, 142-203, 228-241, 212-219, 204-211, 220-227, 242-255, [i], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [i, 1-260], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. The foliation shows that some signatures were bound out of order.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch). Label on spine reads "Libri Physicorum Aristotelis Quatuor," but all eight books are discussed in the text.

Decoration

Some initials in headings decorated with flourishes; margins on outer and lower edges of pages with frequent marginalia.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: M. Joannis Hirningeri (autograph, inside upper cover); Carthusian monastery, Buxheim, (note, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by the Counts of Waldbott-Basseheim (stamps of G.W.B.D., probably standing for Gräflich von Waldbott-Bassenheim'sche Domanialverwaltung, f. 1r), who inherited the Buxheim monastery library (monastery dissolved in 1803, its property including its library given to the Counts of Ostein) from the Count of Ostein in 1810.
   
• Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Physics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Front cover — Reused manuscript leaf with musical notation, Front cover
• Inside front cover — Owner note, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Owner stamp, f. 1r
• Back cover — Reused manuscript leaf with musical notation, Back cover
• Spine — Reused manuscript leaf with musical notation, Spine