Details

Other Title:

Com[m]en[tarius] in octo li[bros] physico[rum].

Subjects:

Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on Aristotle's Physics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Incipit: Quemadmodum apud morales philosophos iustitia... (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 304 + i (contemporary paper); 1⁶(first leaf flyleaf) 2-5⁸ 6² 7⁶ 8-29⁸ 30¹² 31⁸ 32¹⁰ 33-38⁸ 39⁸(-2, perhaps pastedown; last leaf flyleaf); [1-304]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Gatherings 1-23 signed A-Z (gathering 1 signed on second leaf; no J, U, or W), gathering 24 signed with a crossed Z, gatherings 25-39 signed AA-PP (no J). Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 35-43 long lines.
Script: Written in a small cursive script by what appears to be a single hand, with marginal annotations in a similar hand.
Binding: Contemporary blind stamped pigskin.
Origin: Written in Germany, completed April 13, 1579 (f. 304v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the library of the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (inscriptions, f. i recto, 1r).
Sold by Robert Alder (Bern), 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 14).
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 M11).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 766

OCLC:

212111762

Web link:

Collation model