Details

Standardized Title:

Summa logicae

Subjects:

Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
illuminations.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A work of logic divided into 4 parts with an incomplete table of contents at the end (f. 102r-103v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Dudum me frater et amice tuis litteris studebas inducere ut aliquas regulas artis logice... (f. 1r).
Explicit: Explicit loica Magistri Guilielmi Ocham scripta per me fratrem Matheum de Faventia ordinis servorum studentem bononiae (f. 102r).
Collation: Parchment, iv (modern paper) + 103 + iv (modern paper); 1-10¹⁰ 11⁴⁻¹(-4); [1-103]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 45 lines; frame-ruled in ink; some prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by several hands. Last part copied by Matthew of Faventia (f. 102r).
Decoration: 5-line inhabited initials with a monk's head (f. 1r, 88r); illuminated border with vines and shield (f. 1r); illuminated initials, in green, red, blue, gold, and pink (f. 30v, 44r, 59v, 61r, 71r); rubricated headings; 2-line chapter initials in alternating red and blue with red or purple contrasting ornamentation.
Binding: Modern crimson half-morocco.
Origin: Written in Bologna (f. 102r) in the last half of the 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence), 1907.

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. 1 (Ms. Latin 1).
The De Sacramento altaris of William Ockham, T. Bruce Birch, ed., Burlington, Iowa: Lutheran Literary Board, 1930, p. xxxvii.
The Tractatus de successivis, attributed to William Ockham, edited with a study on the life and works of Ockham by Philotheus Boehner, St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure College, 1944, p. 18.

Cited as:

William of Ockham, Summus totius logicae (Ms. Codex 825). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155922205

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