Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Meteorologica -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Meteorology -- Early works to 1800.
Meteorology.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Three anonymous commentaries on works of Aristotle: De caelo, Meteorologica and De generatione et corruptione.

Contents:

1. f.i recto-78v: Commentarius in IV libros de coelo Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
2. f.79r-116r: Commentarius in III libros meteorologicos Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
3. f.117r-203r: Commentarius in II libros de generatione et corruptione a Joanne Zorn exceptus.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit (f. 1r): Corpore naturali in communi eiusque proprietatibus exsplicatis ad species pergit Aristoteles.
Incipit (f. 80r): Licet communiter ...
Incipit (f. 118r): Item horum librorum ...
Includes formal title pages (f. i recto, 79r, 117r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 209 + ii (contemporary paper); [i], 1-58, [ii], 59-195, 195-203, [204-205]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21-24 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with marginal notes in additional hands.
Decoration: Includes nine illustrations in ink between f. 58 and 59 and one at f. 92v, as well as numerous astronomical diagrams incorporated in the text.
Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards.
Origin: Written in Germany in the early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Karl Goldmann (Munich), 1952.

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. 7 (Ms. Latin 30).
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 M13).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 770

Contributor:

Zorn, Johannes, 1739-1799.

Contains:

Commentarius in III libros meteorologicos Aristotelis a Joanne Zorn exceptus.
Commentarius in II libros de generatione et corruptione a Joanne Zorn exceptus.

OCLC:

212127876