Commentarius in tres Aristotelis libros De anima et in Metaphysicam.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sudanus, Claudius, 1579-1655.

Contributor:

Faber, Alexander, 17th century, scribe.

Michna, Georg Wilhelm, 17th century.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Aristotle. Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics.

Soul--Early works to 1800.

Soul.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lecture notes

Hybrid books.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 17th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction by Reiss & Sohn (Königstein, Germany), 19 November 2018, lot 45.

Physical Description:

438 leaves : paper ; 195 x 155 (150 x 105) mm bound to 200 x 175 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Dilingen], [1612]-1613.

Language Note:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Swiss-born Jesuit priest who taught grammar and philosophy at the Universität Dillingen.

Summary:

Collection of student notes from two lecture courses of Claudius Sudanus (Claude Sudan) on Aristotle, bound together with two brief publications related to dissertation defenses presided over by Sudanus, all at the Universität Dillingen in December 1612 and 1613. The notes on Aristotle's De anima, dated 20 December 1612 (f. 1r) to 17 May 1613 (f. 334v), and incomplete notes on the Metaphysics, started 18 May 1613 (f. 1r, second foliation sequence), were taken by Alexander Faber (f. 358r). Leaves missing at the end of the notes on the Metaphysics (after f. 67, second foliation sequence).

Contents:

1. f.1r-340v: In tres Aristotelis libros De anima / [Claudius Sudanus]

2. f.345r-352v: Dissertatio peripatetica De anima, eiusque potentiis / Georgius Guilielmus Michna (Diligen: Apud Joannem Mayer, [July] 1613)

3. f.358r, 1r-67v: Commentarius in Metaphysicam / dictatus a Reverendo Patre Claudio Sudano

4. f.69r-80r: Theses selectae ex tota speculativa Aristotelis philosophia / praeside Claudio Sudano (Dilingen: Apud Joannem Mayer, [September] 1613).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from spine title.

Collation: Paper, iii + 438 + iii; 1-43⁸ 44-45⁴ 46⁶ 47-52⁸ 53¹⁰ 54⁸ 55² 56-58⁴; gatherings 1-43 signed 1-43, lower center first recto; gatherings 44-45 (printed) signed A-B; gatherings 47-54 signed 1-8, lower center first recto; gatherings 56-58 (printed) signed A-C; original foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 1-344, [345-358], 1-67, [68-80]. Printed items have both printed pagination and modern foliation; all references in this record are to foliation.

Layout: Manuscript pages have an impression of a frame with an outer and upper margin, with running titles for some parts written in the upper margin area and foliation written in the box formed by the intersection of the margins in the recto upper right corner. Quarto format.

Script: Written in cursive script in the hand of student Alexander Faber (f. 358r).

Decoration: Woodblock print title page frame with the Jesuit monogram IHS at top; pelican device at bottom with motto Sic His Qui Diligunt, associated elsewhere with the Mayer family of printers; and small full-length portraits of Gregory and Jerome in the upper corners, Ambrose and Augustine on the sides, and Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure in the lower corners (f. 358r); title pages of printed items with decorative frames of botanical and classical motifs (f. 345r, second foliation sequence f. 69r).

Binding: Contemporary (17th-century) leather, blind stamped with the arms of the Universität Dillingen on both covers, spine title in ink, Commentarius in tres Aristotelis libros De anima et in Metaphysicam. A fragment of a manuscript page with chant notation is partially visible inside the back cover below the pastedown.

Origin: Written at the Universität Dillingen, 1612-1613.

Cited as:

Claudius Sudanus, Commentarius (Ms. Codex 2086). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1350436226