Manuscript leaf from In libros De caelo et mundo Aristotelis, between 1275 and 1299.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Standardized Title:

In libros De caelo et mundo Aristotelis

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De caelo.

Aristotle.

Cosmology--Early works to 1800.

Cosmology.

Genre:

commentaries

fragments (object portions)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard Quaritch (London), cat. 1348 (2007), no. 3.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : parchment ; 350 x 220 (240 x 57 main text, 240 x 155 gloss) mm

Contained In:

Manuscript Fragment Collection. Folder 20

Place of Publication:

between 1275 and 1299.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Leaf from a late 13th-century manuscript written in France of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on a Latin translation of the cosmological work De caelo et mundo, attributed to Aristotle. The leaf contains the end of lectio XIV and beginning of lectio XV, on the first book, eighth chapter of the Aristotle text, concerning the impossibility of an infinite body. A small diagram in the lower margin of the recto illustrates part of the argument. Written in a Gothic bookhand and glossing hand, in 32 lines of main text and 63 lines of gloss on either side. Two initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork on verso; running heads and pargraph marks alternate between red and blue. Due to the leaf's later use as a wrapper, it is creased and labeled Manuel d'agriculture et réfutation de la methode de Thull, Paris, 1767.

OCLC:

166227682