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Title

Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Metaphysicam

Authors

• Roussel, D. D

Other related names

• Jollain, Gérard, -1683, engraver
• La Quintinye, M. de, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 847
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3177996
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3177996

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1682

Place

Paris

Summary

Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from title page (p. v).
   
• Incipit: Praefatio. Superiore, huiusce phi[s]ici cursus anno illam exposuimus ... (p. 1).
   
• Explicit: Finis Metaphysicae cum generalis cum particularis, dictatae a D. Roussel, anno D[omini] 1682 [secundo die] K[alendis] J. (p. 523).
   

Extent

272 leaves : 223 x 164 (165 x 114) mm. bound to 230 x 175 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 272 + i (contemporary paper); [viii], 1-156, 156, 158-523, [xiii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary red morocco with tooled designs in gold; marbled endpapers.

Layout

Written in 17-18 long lines, frame-ruled in ink.

Decoration

Engraving of "Aristoteles" and "Divus Plato," with title information added by hand (p. v); engraved portrait of Aristotle with brief biography in French and "Iollain excudit" (p. viii).

Script

Written in a cursive script in the hand of M. de la Quintinye.

Provenance

• "Le Vair de Bellemont," note in pencil, (f. 1v).
   
• Sold by Librairie Robert Legueltel, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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