Details

Other Title:

Metaph[ysic]a

Subjects:

Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A collection of three Aristotle commentaries bound together, the first and last are unsigned manuscript commentaries in the same hand, bound with a printed essay on Aristotle's Physica by a seventeenth-century Benedictine monk named Peter Feichtinger, dated 1633.

Contents:

1. f.1r-76v: Com[m]entarius et tractatus unic[us] ... Ar[isto]t[el]is de coelo.
2. f.79r-94v: Theoremata physica ad octo libros physicos Aristotelis / Peter Feichtinger.
3. f.96r-203r: Com[m]entarius in duos libros Ar[istote]lis de generatione et corruptione.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 203 + i (contemporary paper); 1-77, [iii], [p. 1-28] (printed pagination), 1-110; contemporary foliation in ink, upper outer corners; [1-203], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, brass catches and clasps intact.
Origin: Second work by Peter Feichtinger was printed at Salisburg by Christopher Katzenberger, 1633.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Michael R. Thompson Rare Books (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1995.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 617

Contains:

Feichtinger, Petrus. Theoremata physica ad octo libros physicos Aristotelis.
Commentarius in duos libros Aristotelis de generatione et corruptione.

OCLC:

209615509