Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Anonymous commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics with an index to the Metaphysics.

Contents:

1. f.1r-82r: Commentary.
2. f.82v-85v: Index.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from explicit (f. 82r).
Incipit: Omnes homines natura scire desiderant. Nam quaelibet res ferente natura appetit perfectionem...
Otherwise unknown according to bookseller's description, 1953.
Same commentary is found in UPenn Ms. Codex 763 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper i (modern paper) + 85 + i (modern paper); [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 39-49 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand, with marginal annotations in a second hand.
Decoration: 3-line to 6-line initials with pink, red, blue, green, gray, and gold ornamentation, some with foliate extensions (f. 1r, 8v, 10v, 16v, 23v, 35r, 37v, 49r, 52v); simple 3-line red initials throughout, with rubrication used for capitals, underlining, and paragraph markers.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1953.

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, p. 13 (Ms. Latin 59).
Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Part V." Library Chronicle 24 (1958), 86-98. This manuscript is listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 95 (item M8).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 764

OCLC:

212106540