[Summa totius logicae].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349.

Standardized Title:

• Summa logicae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Logic--Early works to 1800.
• Logic.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• illuminations (paintings)
• Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.
• Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence), 1907.

Physical Description:

103 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 245 x 177 (174 x 121) mm bound to 254 x 180 mm

Place of Publication:

[Bologna], [between 1350 and 1399]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

A work of logic divided into 4 parts with an incomplete table of contents at the end (f. 102r-103v).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Incipit: Dudum me frater et amice tuis litteris studebas inducere ut aliquas regulas artis logice... (f. 1r).
• Explicit: Explicit loica Magistri Guilielmi Ocham scripta per me fratrem Matheum de Faventia ordinis servorum studentem bononiae (f. 102r).
• Collation: Parchment, iv (modern paper) + 103 + iv (modern paper); 1-10¹⁰ 11⁴⁻¹(-4); [1-103]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Layout: Written in 2 columns of 45 lines; frame-ruled in ink; some prickings visible.
• Script: Written in a Gothic book script by several hands. Last part copied by Matthew of Faventia (f. 102r).
• Decoration: 5-line inhabited initials with a monk's head (f. 1r, 88r); illuminated border with vines and shield (f. 1r); illuminated initials, in green, red, blue, gold, and pink (f. 30v, 44r, 59v, 61r, 71r); rubricated headings; 2-line chapter initials in alternating red and blue with red or purple contrasting ornamentation.
• Binding: Modern crimson half-morocco.
• Origin: Written in Bologna (f. 102r) in the last half of the 14th 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 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 1 (Ms. Latin 1).
• The De Sacramento altaris of William Ockham, T. Bruce Birch, ed., Burlington, Iowa: Lutheran Literary Board, 1930, p. xxxvii.
• The Tractatus de successivis, attributed to William Ockham, edited with a study on the life and works of Ockham by Philotheus Boehner, St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure College, 1944, p. 18.

Cited as:

William of Ockham, Summus totius logicae (Ms. Codex 825). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155922205

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