Commentarius in universam Aristotelis logicam / traditus a R[everendo] P[atre] Christophoro Steborio Societatis Iesu.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Steborius, Christophorus, 1581-1639.

Contributor:

Hirningerus, Ioannes, scribe.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Organon--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

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

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Isagoge.

Porphyry.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Definition (Philosophy).

Predicate (Logic).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

annotations

commentaries

diagrams

lecture notes

Hybrid books.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Joannes Hirningero Riedlingensi (signature, f. i recto) and the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (note, f. iv recto).

Purchased, 1953.

Physical Description:

322 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 185 x 150 (155 x 105) mm bound to 195 x 156 mm

Place of Publication:

[Ingolstadt], 1608.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on Aristotle's Logic, including material on Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's Categoriae, but with no material on the Topics or Sophistical Refutations.

Contents:

1. f.iv recto-xix recto: Disputatio philosophica de universali logico / Christophorus Steborius.

2. f.1r-298v: Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Logicam / Christophorus Steborius.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and attribution from title page following the Disputatio (f. xxiii recto).

Incipit: In nomine dulcissimi Jesu. Prooemium Logicae (f. 1r).

Explicit: Finita, & feliciter absoluta tertio Calendas Octobris anno recuperata salutis Christianæ millesimo sexcentesimo octavo a meridie horam circiter tertiam [Sabathinam?]. Finis (f. 298v).

A printed pamphlet of the dissertation of Paul Mayer, Disputatio philosophica de universali logico, is bound at the front of the volume.

Title page of pamphlet: Disputatio philosophica de universali logico, in alma et Catholica Ingolstadiensi Academia publice proposita, die 17 Decembr. Anno M. DC. VIII. Praeside Christophoro Steborio, Societatis Iesu, philosophiæ professore ordinario. Respondente reverendo et erudito domino Paulo Mayer Miespachensi, physicæ studioso, & ad S. Viti in Herrieden Canonico. Ingolstadii. Ex officina typographica Ederiana, apud Andream Angermarium.

The commentary's progression through an introduction and the treatises comprising most of the Logic (Categoriae, De interpretatione, De priore resolutione, and De posteriori analysi) is interrupted by a consideration of the Isagoge of Porphyry, an introduction to the Categoriae, which is inserted before that treatise.

Foliation: Paper, 322; [xxiii]; 1-39, [i], 40-165, 167-176, 178-271, 273-298, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Printed pamphlet has separate pagination, p. [1-2], 3-29, [30-32].

Script: Written in a cursive script by Joannes Hirningerus Riedlingensi, whose autograph appears on f. i recto and whose name appears on the title page as the selector of the excerpts (f. xxiii recto). Also includes numerous contemporary marginal notes.

Decoration: Full page miniature showing an elaborately robed man with notes in front of him lecturing to two smaller figures, both with open codices, one with pen and ink; colors include green, blue, purple, brown, gray, red, pink, and gold (f. 61r). Another full page miniature shows a chart of terms consisting of opposites, perhaps associated with Socrates and Plato, on the branches of a tree with a robed man at the top; colors include green, blue, gold, brown, gray, pink, red, and yellow (f. 105r).

Watermark: Small crowned creature on a shield (also appearing in Ms. Codex 837).

Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin.

Origin: Written in Ingolstadt, Germany, in 1608 (f. xxiii recto).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 7 (Ms. Latin 27).

Listed in Backer-Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, 2nd ed., vol. VII, col. 1521B.

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. 98 (item M34).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 836

OCLC:

188926748