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Philosophiae Ar[istote]lis traditae et propugnatae / per R[everendum] P[atrem] Ferdinandu[m] Acatium è Societate Iesu.

Author/Creator:
Acatius, Ferdinandus, -1691.
Publication:
[Austria?], 1660-1663.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
3 volumes (389 + 361 + 391 leaves) : paper, illustrations ; volume 1: 186 x 150 (158 x 100) mm bound to 192 x 156 mm; volume 2: 199 x 150 (159 x 100) mm bound to 211 x 162 mm; volume 3: 201 x 150 (156 x 102) mm bound to 210 x 167 mm
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Subjects:
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Organon -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.
Criticism and interpretation.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Commentary on various works of Aristotle by the Jesuit Ferdinandus Acatius, excerpted by the Benedictine Constantinus Gayer.
Contents:
Summulae seu institutiones logicae.
Pars I: In universam Aristotelis logicam.
Pars II: In octo libros physicorum (also including a discussion of De coelo).
Pars III: In quatuordecim libros metaphysicorum.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page before Part I (V.1, p. 97).
Lines pressed into the paper define margins on the outer and bottom edges of each page, although the bottom edge of V.1 has been reduced by trimming; frequent marginalia and corrections in these margins.
Incipit: Logica quae est scientia rationalis discretiva veri a falso, viamque monstrat ac modum cognoscendi principia aliarum scientiarum (V.1, p.1).
Explicit: ... et in hoc discursu conformiter ad alibi dicta ex integro subsistimus. Vale. die 30 Maii hora pomeridiana anno 1663 (V.3, p. 38).
Pagination: V.1: Paper, 389; [iv], 1-84, vii, 1-667, ii; V.2: Paper, 361; [vi], 1-712, [iv]; V.3: Paper, 391; [iv], 713-1442, i, 1-38, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Some of the numerals in V. 1 have been partially trimmed away. Modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners; V.1: [iv, 1-776, iv]; V.2: [vi, 1-712, [iv]; V.3: [iv], 1-774, [iv].
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by multiple hands.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark of a standing figure with a sun for a face in an oval decorated around its edge with scrolls, leaves, and crosses.
Decoration: Stamp in faded black ink showing a stag in a forest (V.1, p. [776]); geometric diagrams in margins (V.2, p. 617, 625, 690, 693).
Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch); each volume has a pair of leather straps and metal clasps; the upper strap on V.1 is in poor condition.
Origin: Probably written in Austria, 29 November 1660-30 May 1663. Dates include: Anno 1660 die 29 9bris (November 29, 1660, Summulae, V.1 p. 84); die 6 Augusti, anno 1661 (August 6, 1661, V.1, p. 677); die 5 Junii anno 1662 (June 5, 1662, V.2, p.712); die 18 Maii anno 1663 (May 18, 1663, V.2, p. 1442); die 30 Maii hora pomeridiana anno 1663 (afternoon of May 30, 1663, V.3, p. 38).
Contemporary or near-contemporary notes are laid in between the first and second leaves of V. 1; p. 34 and p. 35, p. 444 and p. 445, V.1; p. 700 and 701, V.2; and p. 1442 of V.2 and the title page of V.3.
Penn Provenance:
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 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 6 (Ms. Latin 25).
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 M20).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 835
Contributor:
Gayer, Constantinus.
OCLC:
188920964