In libros Aristotelis De anima et Metaphisicos : Commentarii II / dictati a reverendo et doctissimo patre Simone Fyrbas Monacho Schyrensi conscripti.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Fyrbas, Simon.

Contributor:

Husek, Isaac.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Aristotle.

Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle. Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Soul--Early works to 1800.

Soul.

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics.

Scholasticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

Finding tabs.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Charles Walts Burr (Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate, inside upper cover).

Physical Description:

266 leaves : paper ; 197 x 151 (150 x 88) mm bound to 205 x 162 mm

Production:

[Scheyern], 1632.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Two works of Aristotelian scholastic philosophy, the first on the soul, the second on metaphysics. The first work covers the tripartite nature of the soul, the soul's relation to the body, the five senses, consciousness (sensus internus), the intellect, and whether the soul is immortal. The latter deals with being (ens), analogy, and the difference between substance, essence, and existence. It also discusses separate substances, angels, and divine simplicity. A letter from Isaac Husek dated 1933 about this manuscript is tipped in at the beginning. Most pages include marginal annotations in a contemporary hand.

Contents:

1. f.1r-196r: De anima.

2. f.198r-252r: In libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis.

3. f.253r-259r: Index in libros Aristotelis de anima.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, iii + 261 + ii; 1¹⁰ 2-24⁸ 25⁴ 26-29⁸ 30⁶ 31-32⁸ 33¹⁰; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; contemporary pagination in ink [iii], 2-501, [i], 1-13, [v], upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 20 long lines; text block outlined in drypoint, some section headings ruled in lead.

Script: Written in a cursive script.

Watermark: Unidentifiable; shield with three stars on face, curved upper corners, and crescent on top.

Decoration: Illustrated border on title page with trees, a prophet and his train, a king and his army, a sage, travelers, a hunter and his dog, a carriage, a crumbling palace, and other figures (possibly including St. Patrick) (f. 1r); finding tab with metallic coating on p. 391-392.

Binding: Contemporary calf over oak boards with blind pressed initials F.D.B.S., date 1632, floral border designs, and remains of clasps on lower cover.

Origin: Written in Scheyern, Bavaria, in 1632.

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. 41 (Ms. Latin 175).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1138.

Contains:

In libros metaphysicorum Aristotelis.

OCLC:

213379907

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