Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Organon -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Three anonymous commentaries on Aristotle.

Contents:

1. f.2r-132v: Logica nostra.
2. f.137r-235r: In Physicam.
3. f.238r-260r: Metaphysica nostra.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from title for first work (f. 2r).
Incipit (1st work): Fili, a iuventute tua excipe doctrinam, et usque ad canos invenies sapientias (f. 2r).
Incipit (2nd work): Quemadmodum summa perfectissa, et ultimate completa perfectio cuiuslibet rationalis creatura... (f. 137r).
Incipit (3rd work): Absoluta per Dei gratiam naturali philosophia; ultimam philosophia partem aggredimur... (f. 238r).
Foliation: Paper, iii + 262 + iii; [1-261]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 28-31 long lines.
Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Rubricated throughout.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Carthusian monastery at Buxheim (inscription, f. 2r).
Possible ownership stamp: G.W.B.D (lower margin, f. 2r).
Sold by Karl Goldmann, 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. 17 (Ms. Latin 78).
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 M15).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 773

Contains:

In Physicam.
Metaphysica nostra.

OCLC:

212135709