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Octo libri physicorum / ab admodum reverendo religioso et doctissimo P[atre] F. Romano Rauscher Ordinis S[ancti] Benedicti.

Author/Creator:
Rauscher, Romanus.
Publication:
[Salzburg], 1637-1639.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
478 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 186 x 152 (145 x 102) mm bound to 197 mm
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Subjects:
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Universität Salzburg.
Physical sciences -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Physical sciences.
Criticism and interpretation.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Diagrams.
Lecture notes.
Pamphlets.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Notes from lectures on Aristotle's Physics and De Caelo, with a printed pamphlet of a philosophical disputation presided over by Rauscher bound between them.
Contents:
1. f.1r-268r: Octo libri physicorum / Romanus Rauscher.
2. f.271r-275r: Index rerum et titulorum in octo libros physicorum.
3. f.275r-276v: Nomina reverendorum religiosorum Patrum et Fratrum mecum in convictu Salisburgensi.
4. f.277r-302v: Academia lucta pro natura in alma universitate Salisburgensi.
5. f.303r-478v: In IV libros De coelis.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
The list of names records the students at the lectures in 1637-1639.
Incipit (1st work): Ad philosophiam recurrat, inquit philosophorum princeps, Aristoteles (f. 4r).
Explicit (1st work): Absolvimus octo libros Physicorum felici omine 12 die Junii anno 1638. Hos octo libros, octo meis patronis dicatos bvolo, ut in quolibet unum magistrum sequens, ex quolibet singularem aliquem fructum percipiam (f. 268r).
Incipit (last work): Cum Thales ph[i]l[osoph]us domum quondam exiret coelum et astra contemplaturus ... (f. 303r).
Explicit (last work): ... firmissimae nobis sunt bonorum actionum alae comparandae quarum beneficio tantum spatium pervolare voleamus. Absolvimus. 8 Octobris, anno 1638 (f. 478v).
Title page of printed pamphlet: Academica lucta pro natura in alma universitate Salisburgensi, sub praesidio P.F. Romani Rauscher Ord. S. Benedicti, Monachi Garstensis, Austriae Superioris, Philosophiae Professoris Ordinarii, Suscepta A Nobili Et Perdocto D[omi]no Georgio Berchtoldo Lorich, Physices Studioso, Ad diem Mensis Novembris, Anno M. DC. XXXVIII. Cum Facultate Superiorum Salisburgi, Typis Chistophori Katzenbergeri, Typographi Aulici & Academici (f. 277r).
Dedication of the pamphlet signed by Georgius Berchtoldus Lorich.
Pagination: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 478 + i (contemporary paper); [x], 1-32, 34-43, 45-87, 89-238, 237-276, 278-287, 289-336, 336-510, [i], 511-525, [xvii], [viii] (printed pamphlet), 1-42, [ii] (printed pamphlet), 1-128, 130-185, [i], 186-276, 278-352, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-478], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Astronomical diagrams in pen and ink (f. 395r, 400v, 404r, 422r, 422v, 424r).
Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin with remnants of two clasps (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Excerpted and written by Erasmus Altmanshauser (f. 1r, 276v) in Salzburg, 1637-1639.
Running heads in the Aristotle material and index.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Goldman, January 1952.
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. 17 (Ms. Latin 77).
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 M31).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 854
Contributor:
Altmanshauser, Erasmus, scribe.
Lorich, Georgius Berchtoldus.
Contains:
Academia lucta pro natura.
In IV libros De coelis.
OCLC:
155918871