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[Commentarius in IV libros de coelo Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 770
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.
- Aristotle.
- Aristotle. De caelo--Early works to 1800.
- Aristotle. Meteorologica--Early works to 1800.
- Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione--Early works to 1800.
- Meteorology--Early works to 1800.
- Meteorology.
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commentaries
- diagrams
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1952.
- Physical Description:
- 209 leaves, illustrations : paper ; 197 x 158 (172 x 120) mm bound to 209 x 165 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany], [between 1600 and 1650]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Three anonymous commentaries on works of Aristotle: De caelo, Meteorologica and De generatione et corruptione.
- Contents:
- 1. f.i recto-78v: Commentarius in IV libros de coelo Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
- 2. f.79r-116r: Commentarius in III libros meteorologicos Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
- 3. f.117r-203r: Commentarius in II libros de generatione et corruptione a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Incipit (f. 1r): Corpore naturali in communi eiusque proprietatibus exsplicatis ad species pergit Aristoteles.
- Incipit (f. 80r): Licet communiter ...
- Incipit (f. 118r): Item horum librorum ...
- Includes formal title pages (f. i recto, 79r, 117r).
- Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 209 + ii (contemporary paper); [i], 1-58, [ii], 59-195, 195-203, [204-205]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with marginal notes in additional hands.
- Decoration: Includes nine illustrations in ink between f. 58 and 59 and one at f. 92v, as well as numerous astronomical diagrams incorporated in the text.
- Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards.
- Origin: Written in Germany in the early 17th 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. 7 (Ms. Latin 30).
- 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. 95 (item M13).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 770
- Contains:
- Commentarius in III libros meteorologicos Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
- Commentarius in II libros de generatione et corruptione a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
- OCLC:
- 212127876
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