Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 854: Octo libri physicorum The University of Pennsylvania Libraries This description is ©2016 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is 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/. All referenced images and their content 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/. 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. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Codex 854 3178018 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178018 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. Latin Octo libri physicorum Rauscher, Romanus Lorich, Georgius Berchtoldus scribe Altmanshauser, Erasmus 1r Octo libri physicorum / Romanus Rauscher, f. 1r [271r] Index rerum et titulorum in octo libros physicorum, f. 271r [275r] Nomina reverendorum religiosorum Patrum et Fratrum mecum in convictu Salisburgensi, f. 275r [277r] Academia lucta pro natura in alma universitate Salisburgensi, f. 277r 1 [=303r] In IV libros De Coelis, f. 303r

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 478 leaves : 186 x 152 (145 x 102) mm. bound to 197 mm 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. Written in a cursive script. Astronomical diagrams in pen and ink (f. 395r, 400v, 404r, 422r, 422v, 424r). Decorated initial (printed), Initial I, f. 278r Decorated initial (printed), Initial V, f. 281r Decorated initial (printed), Initial S, f. 281v Drawing, Dagger, f. 303r Drawing, Man with feathered cap, f. 303r Diagram, f. 395r Diagram, f. 400v Table, f. 401r Table, f. 401v Diagram, f. 404r Diagram, f. 422r Diagram, f. 422v Diagram, f. 424r

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

Excerpted and written by Erasmus Altmanshauser (f. 1r, 276v) in Salzburg, 1637-1639.

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