Tractatus De generatione et corruptione ad mentem subtilium ac theologorum omnium principis Ioannis Duns Scoti.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Rodulphus a Carpo, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308.
• Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.
• Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione--Early works to 1800.
• Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.
• Aristotle.
• Soul--Early works to 1800.
• Soul.
• Scholasticism.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

• Manuscripts, Latin.
• Manuscripts, European.
• codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Librari L. Gonnelli (Florence), 1963.

Physical Description:

138 leaves : paper ; 184 x 123 (155 x 90) mm bound to 192 x 137 mm

Production:

[Bologna], 1650.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Two scholastic commentaries on Aristotle: the first on De generatione et corruptione; the latter on De anima. In between is a two-page work on the soul, apparently unconnected to either book, written in a different hand. The author of the two major works appears to be a proponent of John Duns Scotus. The title page includes two abbreviations, "C. D.F.R.M.D.C.C." and "B. L.N.D.F.C.M.," as well as a dedication: "Ad usus fratris Rodulphi a Carpo ordinis minorum observantium almae provinciae Bononiae" (f. 1r).

Contents:

• 1. f.1r-92v: Tractatus De generatione et corruptione ad mentem subtilium ac theologorum omnium principis Ioannis Duns Scoti.
• 2. f.93r-93v: An anime sit subiectum adequatum et attributionis huius scientiae.
• 3. f.97r-133r: Questiones in libros Aristotelis De anima secundum mentem doctoris subtilis.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
• Collation: Paper, iv + 133 + i; 1⁵( -5) 2-17⁸; quires signed 1-17, upper right recto; [1-134], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Irregular contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on last leaf of each quire, lower right verso.
• Layout: Written in 25 long lines per page, ruled in drypoint.
• Script: Written in a cursive script.
• Watermark: Briquet Oiseau 12210 (1591).
• Decoration: Title page has both a rectangular outer border, and a triangular inner border with leaves, vines, and flower designs, as well as a musical instrument of sorts with the abbreviated mottos written on its neck, all in red ink, except the lettering of the titles themselves (f. 1r).
• Binding: Contemporary parchment.
• Origin: Written in Bologna (Provinciae Bononiae, f. 1r) in 1650 (f. 52v).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 16 (Ms. Latin 240).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1153

OCLC:

221971745