Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Creizperger, Carolus.
Aristotle.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Drawings (visual works)
Sketches.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Each book of the Physics is dealt with separately. Each of the questions (topics) is subdivided into arguments.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 256; [x], 1-22, [23-502]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Full-page ornamental border for blank title page (p. ix), pen-and-ink drawings of plants, animals, etc. at several of the section headings; several decorated initials; several sketches and diagrams.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
The work may be unfinished or this manuscript may be an incomplete copy. The text ends on p. 472, after which there are 26 blank, unnumbered pages.
Appears to be written in the same hand as another manuscript owned by the Library: In Universam Aristotelis Logicam Quaestiones, by Jean-Baptiste Giattini, dated 1638 (currently shelved as UPenn Ms. Codex 4). Both items also have the same general physical appearance and were probably bound in the same place and at about the same time. Ms. Codex 4 has a roman numeral I written on the spine and Ms. Codex 5 has a roman numeral II written on the spine, both in gold paint, implying that these two manuscripts were probably intended to form a set.
Also includes a printed document folded and bound in at the end. Under the title Propositiones Physicae it advertises a public defense of propositions from the Physics to be given in Rome at the Collegium Germanicum & Hungaricum by Carolus Creizperger in 1640, with space left to fill in the day and month by hand.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 5

Contains:

Propositiones physicae.

OCLC:

155959347