Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De anima -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Organon -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230. Sphaera mundi.
Aristotle.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.
Physical sciences -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Soul -- Early works to 1800.
Soul.
Physical sciences.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Drawings (visual works)
Engravings (prints)
Lecture notes.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Lecture notes, primarily on Aristotle's works but also on the Sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacro Bosco, written by Petrus S. Langevelt at Louvain, Belgium.

Contents:

1. v.1: f.2r-156v: Prior physicae Aristotelicae / Arnold Menneken.
2. v.1: f.159r-293r: Posterior physicae sermocinalis / Joannes Pauli.
3. v. 2: f.3r-105r: Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Physicam / Arnold Menneken.
4. v. 2: f.109r-135r: Commentarius in Spheram Joannis de Sacrobosco.
5. v. 2: f.137r-183r: Explanatio librorum De caelo [Aristotelis] / Joannes Pauli.
6. v. 2: f.183r-215v: De generatione et corruptione [Aristotelis].
7. v. 2: f.216r-243r: Liber Metheororum.
8. v. 2: f.244r-329v: Metaphysica Aristotelica universa / Arnold Menneken.
8. v. 2: f.330r-383r: Libri De anima.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: v.1, paper, 293; [1-293]; v.2, paper, 383; [1-383]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Decoration: Engraved title pages, v. 2, f. 3 signed Pet. Rucholle fec., f. 137 Q. Boel fec., I.G. exc.; a few schematic drawings in v. 2; two engravings bound in v. 2.
Origin: Written in Louvain, from 1646 (v.1, f. 2r) to 1648 (v.2, f. 243r).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1963.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 45 (Ms. Latin 191).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 903

Contributor:

Boel, Coryn, 1620-1668, engraver.
Menneken, Arnold.
Pauli, Joannes.
Rucholle, Peeter, 1618-1647, engraver.

OCLC:

155925286