Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and author from title page (p. v).
Incipit: Praefatio. Superiore, huiusce phi[s]ici cursus anno illam exposuimus ... (p. 1).
Explicit: Finis Metaphysicae cum generalis cum particularis, dictatae a D. Roussel, anno D[omini] 1682 [secundo die] K[alendis] J. (p. 523).
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 272 + i (contemporary paper); [viii], 1-156, 156, 158-523, [xiii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 17-18 long lines, frame-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a cursive script in the hand of M. de la Quintinye.
Decoration: Engraving of "Aristoteles" and "Divus Plato," with title information added by hand (p. v); engraved portrait of Aristotle with brief biography in French and "Iollain excudit" (p. viii).
Binding: Contemporary red morocco with tooled designs in gold; marbled endpapers.
Origin: Written in Paris, 1682 (p. v).

Penn Provenance:

"Le Vair de Bellemont," note in pencil, (f. 1v).
Sold by Librairie Robert Legueltel, 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 66).
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. 98 (item M32).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 847

Contributor:

Jollain, Gérard, -1683, engraver.
La Quintinye, M. de, scribe.

OCLC:

224525471