[Lecture notes].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Langevelt, Petrus S.

Contributor:

Boel, Coryn, 1620-1668, engraver.

Menneken, Arnold.

Pauli, Joannes.

Rucholle, Peeter, 1618-1647, engraver.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Aristotle.

Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. De caelo--Early works to 1800.

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

Aristotle. Organon--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Physics--Early works to 1800.

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230. Sphaera mundi.

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Astronomy, Medieval.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics.

Physical sciences--Early works to 1800.

Physical sciences.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Soul--Early works to 1800.

Soul.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

drawings (visual works)

engravings (prints)

lecture notes

Hybrid books.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1963.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (293, 383 leaves) : paper, illustrations ; volume 1: 199 x 156 (170 x 120) mm bound to 211 x 167 mm ; volume 2: 198 x 157 (172 x 120) mm bound to 209 x 165 mm

Place of Publication:

[Louvain], 1646-1648.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Lecture notes, primarily on Aristotle's works but also on the Sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacro Bosco, written by Petrus S. Langevelt at Louvain, Belgium.

Contents:

1. v.1: f.2r-156v: Prior physicae Aristotelicae / Arnold Menneken.

2. v.1: f.159r-293r: Posterior physicae sermocinalis / Joannes Pauli.

3. v. 2: f.3r-105r: Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Physicam / Arnold Menneken.

4. v. 2: f.109r-135r: Commentarius in Spheram Joannis de Sacrobosco.

5. v. 2: f.137r-183r: Explanatio librorum De caelo [Aristotelis] / Joannes Pauli.

6. v. 2: f.183r-215v: De generatione et corruptione [Aristotelis].

7. v. 2: f.216r-243r: Liber Metheororum.

8. v. 2: f.244r-329v: Metaphysica Aristotelica universa / Arnold Menneken.

8. v. 2: f.330r-383r: Libri De anima.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: v.1, paper, 293; [1-293]; v.2, paper, 383; [1-383]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.

Binding: Contemporary calf.

Decoration: Engraved title pages, v. 2, f. 3 signed Pet. Rucholle fec., f. 137 Q. Boel fec., I.G. exc.; a few schematic drawings in v. 2; two engravings bound in v. 2.

Origin: Written in Louvain, from 1646 (v.1, f. 2r) to 1648 (v.2, f. 243r).

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. 45 (Ms. Latin 191).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 903

OCLC:

155925286