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Title

Analysis librorum Physicorum Aristotelis

Other related names

• Cunnighame, Alexander, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 865
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3178058
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178058

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1674-1675

Place

England

Summary

Lecture notes on Aristotle's works of physical science, including De caelo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteorologica, and De anima, preceded by a compendium of geometry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption heading (p. 1).
   
• Written by Alexander Cunnighame (p. 91).
   
• Incipit (Compendium): Geometria quae ab inventione & usu ... (p. iii).
   
• Explicit (Compendium): ... in Elementis Euclidis. Finis (p. xvi).
   
• Incipit (Analysis): Quoniam communis fert consuetudo physiologiam Aristotelitam maxima de parte ... (p. 1).
   

Extent

250 leaves : 187 x 160 (160 x 120) mm. bound to 196 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, 250 leaves; [xxi], 1-87, 90-113, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner; [88-478], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners of even-numbered pages.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original red morocco with frame of double gilt lines and blind stamped corner ornaments; rebacked. Both boards detached.

Decoration

Full page illustrations drawn in ink and colored with red, green, blue, and brown watercolors: a scholar in his study (p. xviii); a heart, flowers, and dog with initials A.C. (p. xix); a page of 12 small drawings of men, animals, and tools in compartments, (p. 457). Geometric diagrams (p. xii-xv). Red used for ornamental capitals, headings, page borders, and running heads throughout.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Physical sciences--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Soul--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• 1 — Decorated initial, Initial Q, p. 1
• 3 — Decorated initial, Initial C, p. 3
• 3 — Decorated initial, Initial S, p. 3
• 6 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 6
• 6 — Decorated initial, Initial P, p. 6
• 7 — Decorated initial, Initial S, p. 7
• 7 — Decorated initial, Initial T, p. 7
• 9 — Decorated heading, p. 9
• 9 — Decorated initial, Initial M, p. 9
• 14 — Decorated heading, p. 14
• 14 — Decorated initial, Initial E, p. 14
• 17 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 17
• 28 — Decorated initial, Initial E, p. 28
• 48 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 48
• 48 — Decorated initial, Initial I, p. 48
• 48 — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 48
• 60 — Decorated initial, Initial Q, p. 60
• 131 — Decorated initial, Initial S, p. 131
• 131 — Decorated initial, Initial Q, p. 131
• 134 — Decorated initial, Initial S, p. 134
• 134 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 134
• 139 — Decorated initial, Initial I, p. 139
• 160 — Decorated initial, Initial I, p. 160
• 160 — Decorated initial, Initial P, p. 160
• 160 — Decorated initial, Initial Q, p. 160
• 166 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 166
• 174 — Decorated initial, Initial N, p. 174
• 182 — Decorated initial, Initial I, p. 182
• 188 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 188
• 198 — Decorated initial, Initial A, p. 198
• 222 — Decorated initial, Initial C, p. 222
• 269 — Decorated initial, Initial I, p. 269
• 270 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 270
• 327 — Decorated initial, Initial I, p. 327
• 328 — Decorated initial, Initial C, p. 328
• 340 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 340
• 349 — Decorated initial, Initial C, p. 349
• 379 — Decorated initial, Initial D, p. 379
• 457 — Drawing, Men, Animals and Tools, p. 457