Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. Organon -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Roman law -- History.
Roman law.
History.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin; last work is in Italian.

Biography/History:

Jesuit priest and professor apparently located in Wroclaw, Poland (referred to in the 17th century as Breslau or Vratislava).

Summary:

A collection of works bound together of which the first four are Aristotelian commentaries, three on lectures by Froelich and one (the third) signed perhaps by the owner of the manuscript. The fifth work, dealing with Roman law and Justinian's Institutes, specifically the ius privatum, was dictated by Georgius Gio, Professor Ordinary, perhaps at Pont-à-Mousson. The final, incomplete work concerns the papacy and is written on slightly narrower pages.

Contents:

1. f.2r-137v: Commentationes philosophicae organum Aristotelis / Guilhelmus Froelich.
2. f.138r-181v: Compendium physicae in communi Breslae / [Guilhelmus Froelich].
3. f.182r-200v: Commentationes in quatuor libros Aristotelis de coelo et mundo / Christ. Wenc. L.B. de Nostiz.
4. f.204r-523r: Disputationes philosophicae in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis / Guilielmus Frölich.
5. f.524r-607r: Ius privatum / Georgius Gio.
6. f.608r-633v: [Papal history?].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit (1st work): Aristoteles natione Macedo, patria Stagyrites, natus est patre Nichomacho, Phoestiade matre ... (f. 3r).
Incipit (2nd work): Sicut Logicae finis est, habere perfectam notitiam entis ... (f. 139r).
Incipit (3rd work): Post accuratam de pre [?ali?] ut sic disputationem, quam octo praecadentibus physica ... (f. 183r).
Incipit (4th work): Philosophus universam naturae totius historiam in communi exhibiturus, octo libros composuit, quibus titulum praefixit: de physicam ... (f. 205r) Explicit: ... sit luna sub pedibus eius, sit sol, sint reliqua sidera, sint ipsi coeli, quos sub umbra, patrocinis illis defensum . Finis (f. 523r).
Incipit (5th work): Cum jurisprudentia finis sit justitia ... (f. 525r).
Foliation: Paper, 633; highly irregular foliation begins at f. 183 (with beginning of third text): 1-19, [iii], 1(=f. 205, first page of fourth text)-19, pp. 20-23, f. 24-120, [i], 121-140, 149-159, [i], 160-163, 163-172, 123-127, [i], 128-129, 180-192, [i], 193-197, [iii], 198-199, 201-221, [i], 222-225, 225-243, [i], 267-289, [i], 290-316, [i], 317-339, [i], foliation ends with fourth work. Modern pencil foliation in pencil, [1-635]; upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 27-36 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: 8 diagrams outlining Porphyry's predicaments, f. 88r-91v; Tree of Porphyry decorated with a coat of arms related to those on bookplate (f. 126r).
Binding: Contemporary parchment; spine reads Philosophia et ius privat script a C.W.S.R.[I?].C. de N.R.
Origin: Written in Wroclaw and Pont-à-Mousson between 1664 and 1667.

Penn Provenance:

Engraved bookplate inside upper cover: coat of arms with C.W.G.V.N. below, attributed to C.W. Graf von Nostitz; illegible signature on title page of first work (f. 2r).
Scientia Antiquariat (Alen in Württemberg, Germany), 1959.

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. 31 (Ms. Latin 134).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1051

Contributor:

Gio, Georgius.
Nostitz, Christoph Wentzel, Graf von, 1648-1712, former owner.
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.
Jesuits.

OCLC:

155930785