Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. De anima -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Soul -- Early works to 1800.
Soul.
Angels -- Early works to 1800.
Ontology -- Early works to 1800.
Ontology.
Angels.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Anonymous commentary on Aristotle's De anima, together with two unidentified works or two chapters of an unidentified work.

Contents:

1. f.1r-130v: Stemma philosophiae naturalis ab Aristotele descriptum et ab eiusdem schola nova restitutum, liber primus de anima, universa synopsis librorum Aristotelis, de anima.
2. f.131r-284r: Liber quintus de deo et angelis.
3. f.284r-315v: Liber sextua de ente et essentia.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit (f. 1r): Syllabus praedicatus...
Explicit (f. 130v): Finit librorum Aristotelis de anima.
Incipit (f. 131r): Tametsi de angelis et deo non...
Foliation: Paper, iii + 315 + iii; [1-315]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Two leaves torn out between f. 130 and 131. All of 1st work also foliated in ink in a contemporary hand; 55r-292r (f. 1r-130r).
Layout: Written in 35 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary gold-stamped calf; stamped on front "Theodulus", on back "Villa", on spine "De A'a". Upper cover and spine leather detached at hinge.
Origin: Written in southern Germany in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Symmachus Trading Company, 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. 16 (Ms. Latin 75).
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 M12).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 769.

Contains:

Stemma philosophiae naturalis ab Aristotele descriptum et ab eiusdem schola nova restitutum.
Universa synopsis librorum Aristotelis.
De deo et angelis.
De ente et essentia.

OCLC:

212121013

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