[Commentaries on De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.

Contributor:

Franchini, Giuseppe, 1915- former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Aristotle.

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

Aristotle. Meteorologica--Early works to 1800.

Meteorology--Early works to 1800.

Meteorology.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

annotations

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Giuseppe Franchini (ownership stamp, Prof. Giuseppe Franchini, back flyleaf verso).

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 July 2006, lot 56, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Physical Description:

104 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 301 x 223 (211 x 140) mm bound to 330 x 244 mm

Place of Publication:

[Toulouse?, France], [between 1275 and 1299]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus. The second work is preceded by a table of contents listing chapter headings (f. 25r-26v). Medieval annotations in side margins.

Contents:

1. f.1r-23v: Liber de generatione et corruptione / per fratrem Albertum Thotonicum de ordine fratrum praedicatorum.

2. f.25r-103r: Liber metheorarum / componitus per fratrem Albertum Theutonicum de ordine fratrum praedicatorum.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger; titles for component works from explicits (f. 23v, 103r).

Most leaves have damage at the upper edge and have been repaired with modern parchment.

Foliation: Parchment, 104 ; [1-104] ; modern foliation in pencil, right margin recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 46-50 lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines.

Script: Written in Gothic script.

Decoration: Historiated initial I showing a Dominican friar, probably meant to be Albertus Magnus (f. 27r); 2-line initials in red with blue flourishing throughout first work (f. 1r-23v); 2-line and 3-line initials alternating between red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing throughout second work (f. 25r-103r); occasional red or blue paragraph marks in second work (f. 28r-99r); rubrication and chapter numbers in side margins in red throughout; small sketch of face (f. 81r). The running headings with L[ibris] top center verso and a roman numeral for the book number top center recto, all in red, are only occasionally visible at the damaged upper edge of leaves.

Binding: Parchment spine and paper boards.

Origin: Written in southern France, possibly Toulouse, in the late 13th century.

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 19 (LJS 482).

Cited as:

Oversize LJS 482

OCLC:

793020228

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page