Details

Other Title:

Logica.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Engravings (prints)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on Aristotle, in two parts.

Contents:

1. f.1r-109v: Commentarii in universam Aristoteliae philosophiam.
2. f.119r-438v: Commentarius in universam Aristotelicae logicam.

Notes:

Title from caption title (f. 8r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 453 + i (contemporary paper); [vii, 1-446]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary numeration in ink, 16-70, every eighth folio (in a few cases, every sixth), upper outer corner.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Illustrated with three engraved plates: a frontispiece depicting 10 philosophers, Plato, Thomas [Aquinas], Aristotle, Pythagoras, Seneca, Epicurus, Socrates, Diogenes, Porphyrus, Erasmus, the signature on this plate is difficult to read, "Chez...a la Ville d'Anders"; engraved title page with architectural cartouche [left blank], signed Rabel, avec priuilege du Roy; and a framed allegorical female figure, "La Logique," plate unsigned. The plate of "La Logique" has an almost identical match in Ms. Codex 883.
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origin: Written in France[?] in the 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly part of Librairie Jean Clavreuil (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Purchased, 1993.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 237

Contributor:

Rabel, Daniel, approximately 1578-1637, engraver.

Contains:

Commentarius in universam Aristotelicae logicam.

OCLC:

155989603