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

Title

Octo libri physicorum

Authors

• Rauscher, Romanus
• Lorich, Georgius Berchtoldus

Other related names

• Altmanshauser, Erasmus, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 854
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3178018
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178018

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1637-1639

Place

Salzburg

Summary

Notes from lectures on Aristotle's Physics and De Caelo, with a printed pamphlet of a philosophical disputation presided over by Rauscher bound between them.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• The list of names records the students at the lectures in 1637-1639.
   
• Incipit (1st work): Ad philosophiam recurrat, inquit philosophorum princeps, Aristoteles (f. 4r).
   
• Explicit (1st work): Absolvimus octo libros Physicorum felici omine 12 die Junii anno 1638. Hos octo libros, octo meis patronis dicatos bvolo, ut in quolibet unum magistrum sequens, ex quolibet singularem aliquem fructum percipiam (f. 268r).
   
• Incipit (last work): Cum Thales ph[i]l[osoph]us domum quondam exiret coelum et astra contemplaturus ... (f. 303r).
   
• Explicit (last work): ... firmissimae nobis sunt bonorum actionum alae comparandae quarum beneficio tantum spatium pervolare voleamus. Absolvimus. 8 Octobris, anno 1638 (f. 478v).
   
• Title page of printed pamphlet: Academica lucta pro natura in alma universitate Salisburgensi, sub praesidio P.F. Romani Rauscher Ord. S. Benedicti, Monachi Garstensis, Austriae Superioris, Philosophiae Professoris Ordinarii, Suscepta A Nobili Et Perdocto D[omi]no Georgio Berchtoldo Lorich, Physices Studioso, Ad diem Mensis Novembris, Anno M. DC. XXXVIII. Cum Facultate Superiorum Salisburgi, Typis Chistophori Katzenbergeri, Typographi Aulici & Academici (f. 277r).
   
• Dedication of the pamphlet signed by Georgius Berchtoldus Lorich.
   
• Running heads in the Aristotle material and index.
   

Extent

478 leaves : 186 x 152 (145 x 102) mm. bound to 197 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 478 + i (contemporary paper); [x], 1-32, 34-43, 45-87, 89-238, 237-276, 278-287, 289-336, 336-510, [i], 511-525, [xvii], [viii] (printed pamphlet), 1-42, [ii] (printed pamphlet), 1-128, 130-185, [i], 186-276, 278-352, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-478], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped pigskin with remnants of two clasps (Zacour-Hirsch).

Decoration

Astronomical diagrams in pen and ink (f. 395r, 400v, 404r, 422r, 422v, 424r).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Goldman, January 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Universität Salzburg
• Physical sciences--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Physics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Octo libri physicorum / Romanus Rauscher, f. 1r