[Commentaries on the De generatione et corruptione and Analytica].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione--Early works to 1800.
• Aristotle. Posterior analytics--Early works to 1800.
• Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.
• Aristotle.
• Ontology--Early works to 1800.
• Ontology.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

• Codices.
• Commentaries.
• Manuscripts, Latin.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Adalbert Lauter (Munich), 1951.

Physical Description:

412 leaves : paper ; 127 x 87 (98 x 62) mm bound to 135 x 90 mm

Production:

[Italy], [1550?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Anonymous commentaries on two works of Aristotle: De generatione et corruptione and Analytica posteriora. Also includes a table of contents to first work (f. ii recto-v recto).

Contents:

• 1. f.ii recto-v recto: Table of contents. 2. f.1r-317v: Annotationum in duos libros Aristotelis de generatione et corruptione.
• 3. f.322r-407v: In duos libros Aristotelis Stagiritae posteriorum analyticorum brevium annotationum.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Incipit (f. 1r): Solent in initio suorum operum...
• Incipit (f. 322r): In cognitionem scientiam...
• Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 412 + i (modern paper); [v], [1-407]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
• Layout: Written in 16-21 long lines.
• Script: Written in a humanistic script in what appears to be a single hand, with table of contents and some marginal notes possibly in another hand.
• Binding: Modern cloth.
• Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1550 (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 6 (Ms. Latin 24).
• 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 M10).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 768

Contains:

• Annotationum in duos libros Aristotelis de generatione et corruptione.
• In duos libros Aristotelis Stagiritae posteriorum analyticoru[m] brevium annotationum.

OCLC:

212119785