Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Notes from the lectures of the Jesuit Antonio Marsigli on Aristotle's Physics, taken by Ludovico Morone Bernardi. Also includes a table of contents (f. 513r-515v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title, author, and scribe from title page (f. i recto).
Principally written by Ludovico Morone Bernardi, with the assistance of others whose names appear on f. ii recto and on the outside of the folded sheet between f. 512 and 513, including Francesco Feretti and Giorgio Bosio.
Incipit: Ad octo libros phisicorum Aristotelis Peripateticorum disputationes.
Explicit: Atque hec sufficiant.
Foliation: Paper, 515; [ii], 1-54, 56-512, folded sheet numbered 513 on the outside, 513, [i], 514, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Illustrated title page with pen and ink design and black, green, red, yellow, purple, and light blue watercolors. "Ludovico Morone," "Georgio Bosius," "Roma," "1606," and possibly "Neapolitani" are hidden in cross-hatching and watercolor washes; later owner Jacobus Laidi's name is added in a similar way. Section headings in capitals, minor decorations in black ink marking the end of two sections (f. 35v, 164r); small diagrams, f. 316r and 316v.
Binding: Contemporary parchment; Scripta Ann 1606 on spine in ink. Lower cover, final folio and lower spine detached from text block; portion of spine is missing.
Origin: Written in Rome in 1606 (f. i recto).
A folded sheet is sewn in between f. 512 and 513; it has a patterned border printed in black, the titles "Conclusiones physice. De subjecto physice," 25 numbered statements, and the note, "Disputabuntur 17 die Junii Anno 1606 in Academia A[nn]ea."

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Jacobus Laidi (inscriptions, f. i, ii, 164r, and 515v, accompanied by the date 1836 on all but the title page).
Sold by Adalbert Lauter (Munich), 1950.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 5 (Ms. Latin 19).
Noted in Backer-Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jésus, vol. 5 (Brussels, 1894) col. 611B.
Noted in 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. 97 (item M29).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 833.

Contributor:

Bernardi, Ludovico Morone, scribe.
Laidi, Jacobus, former owner.

OCLC:

188913089

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