Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on the logical works of Aristotle by Christoph Brandis, S.J., professor at Dillingen, taken down by his student Joannes Huober.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Incipit: Cum Aristoteles in analyticis dicat, nominis praecognitionem omnes alias cognitiones praecedere debere ... (p. 1).
Explicit: ... excepta a Joanne Huober Laupacensi dictata a Reverendo et clarissimo patre Christophoro Brandis philosophiae Dilingae professore ordinario (p. 1048).
Pagination: Paper, 527 leaves + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-1003, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; 1005-1048 in pencil upper outer corner every second page, [1049-1052].
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script in the hand of Joannes Huober (p. i), with marginal annotations in a similar hand. Huober's name also appears in a list on page [1049] under the heading: Competitores gradus baccalaureatus hoc ordine in examine comparuerunt.
Decoration: Folded diagram (32 cm. x 18 cm) bound in between p. 92 and 93.
Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards.
Origin: Written in Dillingen, 1608-1609 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Carthusian monastery, Buxheim (note, p. i).
Formerly owned by the Counts of Waldbott-Bassenheim (stamps of G.W.B.D., probably standing for Gräflich von Waldbott-Bassenheim'sche Domanialverwaltung, p. i), who inherited the Buxheim monastery library (monastery dissolved in 1803, its property including its library given to the Counts of Ostein) from the Count of Ostein in 1810.
Sold by Adalbert Lauter (Munich), 1951.

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. 15 (Ms. Latin 70).
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. 96 (item M22).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 777

Contributor:

Huober, Johannes, scribe.

OCLC:

212373713