Details

Subjects:

Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Logical works of Aristotle translated into Latin from the Greek by Ioannes Argyropoulos including De interpretatione, Prior analytics, and Posterior analytics.

Contents:

1. f.2v-16r: De interpretatione.
2. f.16v-35v: [Prior analytics].
3. f.36r-96r: [Posterior analytics].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit (1st work, f. 2v): Primo definire opportet quid nam sit nomen et quid verbum.
Also includes dedicatory prefaces to Piero de' Medici (f. 1r-2v) and Cosimo de' Medici (f. 35v-36r).
This manuscript represents an early version of the text (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, with marginal annotations in at least one other hand.
Decoration: Illuminated initial in gold, blue and green (f. 1r); blue initials and rubricated headings throughout; diagrams in red interspersed in the text.
Binding: Contemporary wooden boards. Upper cover nearly detached.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.

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. 4 (Ms. Latin 12).
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. 94 (item M7).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 765.

Contributor:

Argyropoulos, Iōannēs, -1486, translator.
Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464, dedicatee.
Medici, Piero de', 1416-1469, dedicatee.

Contains:

Aristotle. De interpretatione. Latin
Aristotle. Prior analytics. Latin
Aristotle. Posterior analytics. Latin

OCLC:

212108036

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