Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Organon -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Jesuits -- Czech Republic -- Prague.
Jesuits.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy.
Criticism and interpretation.
Czech Republic -- Prague.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Engravings (prints)
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Two philosophical works for university use, the larger one concerned with Aristotle's Organon, followed by a list of Steiner's students in 1641 and 1642 and lists of definitions and assertions.

Contents:

1. f.1r-35v: Institutionum dialecticarum sive prolusionum ad philosophiam rationalem tractatus tripartus / praeside R.P. Maximo Steiner.
2. f.37r-200r: Tractatus philosophicum in universum Aristotelis Organum / auctore reverendo Patre Maximo Steiner, Societatis Iesu.
3. f.201r-201v: Catalogus eorum.
4. f.202r-202v: Definitiones.
5. f.203r-206r: Assertiones Logicae universae.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page of predominant work (f. 37r); author from title pages for both works (f. 2r, f. 37r).
Script: Written in a cursive script by Andreas Ignatius Spahn, student of Steiner (f. 37r, f. 201r),
Incipit (1st work): Prolusio prima de termino et multiplici eius divisione. Sectio prima. Explicatur quid sit terminus, et adferatur aliquot eius divisiones (f. 2r).
Explicit (1st work): ... est ultimum felicitatis nostrae Deum. A.M.D.G., B.V.M., S.I.L., O.Q.S., S.A.C. (f. 35v).
Incipit (2nd work): Prooemium. Philosophiam rationalem quam disserendi magistrem dixerunt ... (f. 38r).
Explicit (2nd work): Faxit Deus Optimus, Maximus, Sapientissimaque Dei Genetrix, ut eam, quam cepimus, perficiamus industria et labore. Absolutus est hic tractatus, anno ut supra, die vero Divi Bartholomaei, Vigilia Sacra (f. 200r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 206 + i (contemporary paper); [1-206]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Also includes partial contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners of first and second works.
Decoration: Frame of title page of first work painted in orange, brown, red, and green (f. 1r); pasted-in engraving, Pons asinorum (f. 19r); title page of second work is an arrangement of interlocking circles with title information arranged around the edges of the pattern (f. 37r); several pen and ink ornamental initials and tailpieces (for example, f. 2r, 23v, 25v).
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Back pastedown has come loose, revealing a portion of a printed leaf used for binding material that includes several biblical excerpts from the books of Job, Daniel, and Maccabees.
Origin: Written in Prague, 1641-1642 (f. 2r, f. 37r).

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate pasted inside upper cover: ex Bibliotheca Koëffringanea.
Sold by Karl Goldman (Munich), 1953.

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. 15 (Ms. Latin 65).
Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Part 5." Library Chronicle 24 (1958), 86-98. This manuscript is listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 98 (item M35).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 846

Contributor:

Spahn, Andreas Ignatius, scribe.

Contains:

Institutionum dialecticarum sive prolusionum ad philosophiam rationalem tractatus tripartus.

OCLC:

224521211