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

Title

Commentarii in universam Aristotelis philosophiam

Call number

Ms. Codex 961
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3596876
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3596876

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1660

Place

France

Summary

Commentary on Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione, illustrated with numerous charts of dichotomies and two squares of opposition.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 9r); earliest date based on the engraving of Marie-Therese as queen of France.
   

Extent

277 leaves : 227 x 160 (171 x 110) mm. bound to 235 x 175 mm

Foliation

Paper, 277; [1-277]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary full mottled calf with gilt spine.

Decoration

Engraved blank title frame (f. 4r) and portraits of Louis XIV (f. 5v), Marie-Therese (f. 6r), the Dauphin (f. 228v), Christ as Salvator Mundi (f. 7v), Saint Catherine (f. 8r), Saint Augustine (f. 109v), Saint Thomas Aquinas (f. 110r), Democritus (f. 274v), Heraclitus (f. 275r), Plato (f. 51v), Aristotle (f. 52r), and Diogenes (f. 153v); engraved Tree of Porphyry (f. 116v); charts (f. 121r, 127v, 131v, 132r, 141r, 148v, 149r, 151v, 163v, 169r, 181v, 189r, 192v, 194r, 239v, 265v).

Script

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

Provenance

• Sold by Bennett Gilbert, 2004.
   

Subjects topical

• Logic--Early works to 1800
• Categories (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Ms. Codex 961: Commentarii in universam Aristotelis philosophiam are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Decorations

• fol. 4r — Engraved title frame, f. 4r
• fol. 5v — Engraved portrait, Louis XIV, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Engraved portrait, Marie-Therese, f. 6r
• fol. 7v — Engraved portrait, Christ as Salvator Mundi, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Engraved portrait, Saint Catherine, f. 8r
• fol. 51v — Engraved portrait, Plato, f. 51v
• fol. 52r — Engraved portrait, Aristotle, f. 52r
• fol. 109v — Engraved portrait, Saint Augustine, f. 109v
• fol. 110r — Engraved portrait, Saint Thomas Aquinas, f. 110r
• fol. 116v — Engraving, Tree of Porphyry, f. 116v
• fol. 121r — Chart, f. 121r
• fol. 127v — Chart, f. 127v
• fol. 131v — Chart, f. 131v
• fol. 132r — Chart, f. 132r
• fol. 141r — Chart, f. 141r
• fol. 148v — Chart, f. 148v
• fol. 149r — Chart, f. 149r
• fol. 151v — Chart, f. 151v
• fol. 152r — Chart, f. 152r
• fol. 153v — Engraved portrait, Diogenes, f. 153v
• fol. 163v — Chart, f. 163v
• fol. 169r — Chart, f. 169r
• fol. 181v — Chart, f. 181v
• fol. 189r — Chart, f. 189r
• fol. 192v — Chart, f. 192v
• fol. 194r — Chart, f. 194r
• fol. 228v — Engraved portrait, The Dauphin, f. 228v
• fol. 239v — Chart, f. 239v
• fol. 265v — Chart, f. 265v
• fol. 274v — Engraved portrait, Democritus, f. 274v
• fol. 275r — Engraved portait, Heraclitus, f. 275r