Com[m]entari[us] in octo libros physicorum Ar[isto]t[el]is peripat[etic]i.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Brandis, Christoph.

Contributor:

Enzenmiller, Johannes.

Pfiffer, Adelricus.

Huober, Johannes, scribe.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Aristotle. Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Counts of Waldbott-Bassenheim (stamp of G.W.B.D., probably standing for Gräflich von Waldbott-Bassenheim'sche Domanialverwaltung, p. 1).

Sold by Adalbert Lauter (Munich), 1951.

Physical Description:

493 leaves : paper ; 197 x 157 (166 x 110) mm bound to 212 x 160 mm

Place of Publication:

[Dillingen], [1609-1610]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on Aristotle's Physics by the Jesuit Christoph Brandis, professor at Dillingen, taken down by his student Joannes Huober. (Compare Huober's condensed version of this commentary found in UPenn Ms. Codex 779.) Bound together with two printed pamphlets on Aristotle.

Contents:

1. f.1r-472r: Com[m]entari[us] in octo libros physicorum Ar[isto]t[el]is peripat[etic]i.

2. f.478r-485r: Theses philosophicae ex philosophia naturale Aristotelis ... / Joannes Enzenmiller. 3. f.486r-493v: Theses miscellaneae ex octo libris physicorum Aristotelis / Adelricus Pfifer.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. i).

Incipit: Dico primo, subiectum attributionis ...

2nd and 3rd works published at Dillingen by Johannes Mayer.

Pagination: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 493 + i (contemporary paper); [ii],1-941, [942-984]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. 5 blank leaves, separate printed pagination on pamphlets, [1], 2-15, [16], [iv], [1], 2-12.

Layout: Written in 20 long lines.

Script: Written in a cursive script by Johannes Huober (p. i), with marginal annotations in another hand.

Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Dillingen, 1609-1610 (p. i).

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. 16 (Ms. Latin 71).

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. 96 (item M23).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 778

Contains:

Theses philosophicae ex philosophia naturale Aristotelis.

Theses miscellaneae ex octo libris physicorum Aristotelis.

OCLC:

212374015