[Lecture notes on Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, and De Animo].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Aristotle.

Aristotle. De caelo--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Physics--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Soul--Early works to 1800.

Soul.

Physical sciences--Early works to 1800.

Physical sciences.

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

lecture notes

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H.P. Kraus (Cat. 189, no. 12), April 1958.

Physical Description:

90 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 208 x 150 (178 x 118) mm bound to 213 x 158 mm

Production:

[Caligari], 1695.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Disputations and questions on Aristotle's De caelo, De generatione et corruptione, De anima, and Metaphysica, followed by a Tabula listing the disputations and questions, written by a student at the Collegium Callaritanum Sancti Josephi, a free public school run by the Poveri della Madre de Dio delle scuole pie, in Cagliari, Sardinia.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Incipit: Tractatus primus de mundo et caelo. Hactenus per octo Physicoru[m] libros agimus de corpore ... (p. 1).

Explicit: Callari in Collegio Callaritano Sancti Josephi scholarum pium die quinta Augusti anni salutis mortalibus restitut[ae?] M. DC. LXXXXV. Finis. Laus Deo (p. 166).

Pagination: Paper, 90; [vi], 1-166, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: Diagram of geocentric spheres of the universe (p. 6).

Watermark: Oval shield quartered by a cross with a crown above it and small dragons rampant holding it on either side.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Caligari, Sardinia, 5 August 1695 (p. 166)

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. 21 (Ms. Latin 98).

Riley, Lyman W. Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library (Philadelphia, 1961), item M19A.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 861.

OCLC:

225060802

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