Details

Subjects:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Jesuits -- Malta.
Jesuits.
Malta.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Lectures.
Pamphlets.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Lectures, presumably held at the Collegium Melivetanum (later to become the Royal University of Malta), taken down by a student , with a printed tract bound in at the end. On the title page of the tract the printed name "Dominicus Pitardl" [Pitardi?] has been painted over and replaced with the name Andreas Agius written in red ink; the former name is visible on the reverse of the page.

Contents:

1. f.3r-34r: In 3a partem Angelici Doctoris, De sanctissimo incarnationis misterio.
2. f.39r-66v: Tractatus de sigillo confessionis sacramentalis.
3. f.72r-170v: Theologica moralis Jesuitica.
4. f.172r-185r: Metheora Reverendi Patris Salvatoris Coste ....
5. f.188r-196v: Assertiones philosophicae, quas in Collegio Melivetano Societatis Jesu sub auspiciis ... / Fr. Don Ioannis de Galdeano defendendas exponit [Andreas Agius, handwritten; printed in Naples, typis Passari, 1677].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
There is an inscription in Arabic on f. 72v.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 196 + i (modern paper); [1-196]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial contemporary foliation for individual works in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, or possibly two closely related hands.
Binding: Modern parchment with Dominicus Pitardi on spine. The last section and the printed tract have a large wormhole on the outer edge of the pages (f. 172-195).
Origin: Written in Malta, 1670-1677. Dates in text: 1671 (f. 47r), 1670 (f. 72r), 1675 (f. 134r), 1677 (printed tract).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement B, Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 26 (Ms. Lea 600).
Neither persons nor the titles could be verified in A. de Backer and C. Sommervogel, Bibl. de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris, 1890-1909).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 706

Contributor:

Agius, Andreas.
Coste, Salvatoris.
Pitardi, Dominicus.

Contains:

Galdeano, Ioannis de. Assertiones philosophicae.

OCLC:

155985451