In universam Aristotelis physicam.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Aristotle. De caelo--Early works to 1800.

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

Aristotle. De mundo--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Meteorologica--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Parva naturalia--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Physics--Early works to 1800.

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

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Physical sciences--Early works to 1800.

Physical sciences.

Soul--Early works to 1800.

Soul.

Psychology--Early works to 1850.

Psychology.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

annotations

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.

Physical Description:

438 leaves : paper ; 222 x 168 (149 x 93) mm bound to 229 x 179 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1500 and 1599]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

A collection of commentaries on Aristotle's works concerning natural philosophy, including physics, astronomy, meteorology, and the soul.

Contents:

1. f.1r-179v: In universam Aristotelis physicam.

2. f.179v-305v: Ad quatuor libros: De mundo et coelo; duo De generatione; quatuor De meteoris Aristotelicos tractatus qui Mundus dicitur.

3. f.307r-325r: Ad quatuor libros meteorologicos Aristotelis.

4. f.329r-422v: Ad libros tres De anima et ea quae vulgo dicuntur Parva naturalia tractatus.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption heading (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, 438 + i; 1-6¹² 7¹⁰ 8-9¹² 10¹²(-8) 11¹² 12¹⁴ 13-25¹² 26⁶ 27¹² 28¹⁰ 29-32¹² 33¹⁴ 34-37¹²; [1-438]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; quires signed in modern pencil, lower right recto on first page of each gathering (a-z, aa-pp).

Layout: Written in long lines with consistent borders throughout, many annotations in margins in same hand as text body.

Script: Written in a cursive script, with caption headings in a humanistic cursive.

Binding: Contemporary leather with name "CL. DECHAMPHEV." on upper cover; older paper with fragments of a religious text in a Gothic script visible under pastedowns on upper and lower covers.

Origin: Written in France in the 16th 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 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 40 (Ms. Latin 172).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1095.

OCLC:

186469404

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