[Metaphysics].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

William, of Moerbeke, approximately 1215-1286, translator.

Standardized Title:

Metaphysics. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1952.

Physical Description:

185 leaves : paper ; 291 x 218 (187 x 119) mm bound to 314 x 222 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [14--]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics into Latin by Guilelmus of Moerbeke, with an anonymous commentary and an index to the Metaphysics.

Contents:

1. f.1r-93r: Metaphysics.

2. f.94r-180r: Commentary.

3. f.181r-185v: Index.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and attribution of translator supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Incipit (f. 1r): Omnes homines natura scire desiderant. Signum autem est...

Incipit (f. 94r): Omnes homines natura scire desiderant. Nam quaelibet res ferente natura appetit perfectionem ...

Same commentary as UPenn Ms. Codex 764 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Foliation: Paper, 185; [1-185]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 31 long lines; ruled in lead.

Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand, with marginal and interlinear annotations in a second hand.

Decoration: Rubricated headings, capitals, paragraph marks, and underlining; several manicules (for example, f. 62r, 63r, 54r).

Binding: Contemporary stamped half calf over wooden boards, with 2 ornamented clasps.

Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965, p. 11 (Ms. Latin 49).

Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Part V." Library Chronicle 24 (1958), 86-98. This manuscript is listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 94 (item M6).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 763

OCLC:

212105084