Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. Organon -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Categoriae -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De interpretatione -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Categories (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800.
Categories (Philosophy).
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Engravings (prints)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione, illustrated with numerous charts of dichotomies and two squares of opposition.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 9r); earliest date based on the engraving of Marie-Therese as queen of France.
Foliation: Paper, 277; [1-277]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Decoration: Engraved blank title frame (f. 4r) and portraits of Louis XIV (f. 5v), Marie-Therese (f. 6r), the Dauphin (f. 228v), Christ as Salvator Mundi (f. 7v), Saint Catherine (f. 8r), Saint Augustine (f. 109v), Saint Thomas Aquinas (f. 110r), Democritus (f. 274v), Heraclitus (f. 275r), Plato (f. 51v), Aristotle (f. 52r), and Diogenes (f. 153v); engraved Tree of Porphyry (f. 116v); charts (f. 121r, 127v, 131v, 132r, 141r, 148v, 149r, 151v, 163v, 169r, 181v, 189r, 192v, 194r, 239v, 265v).
Binding: Contemporary full mottled calf with gilt spine.
Origin: Written in France after 1660.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bennett Gilbert, 2004.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 961

OCLC:

155925642