Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. De anima -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De caelo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De mundo -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Meteorologica -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Parva naturalia -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Physical sciences -- Early works to 1800.
Soul -- Early works to 1800.
Soul.
Psychology -- Early works to 1850.
Psychology.
Physical sciences.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Annotations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A collection of commentaries on Aristotle's works concerning natural philosophy, including physics, astronomy, meteorology, and the soul.

Contents:

1. f.1r-179v: In universam Aristotelis physicam.
2. f.179v-305v: Ad quatuor libros: De mundo et coelo; duo De generatione; quatuor De meteoris Aristotelicos tractatus qui Mundus dicitur.
3. f.307r-325r: Ad quatuor libros meteorologicos Aristotelis.
4. f.329r-422v: Ad libros tres De anima et ea quae vulgo dicuntur Parva naturalia tractatus.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption heading (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, 438 + i; 1-6¹² 7¹⁰ 8-9¹² 10¹²(-8) 11¹² 12¹⁴ 13-25¹² 26⁶ 27¹² 28¹⁰ 29-32¹² 33¹⁴ 34-37¹²; [1-438]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; quires signed in modern pencil, lower right recto on first page of each gathering (a-z, aa-pp).
Layout: Written in long lines with consistent borders throughout, many annotations in margins in same hand as text body.
Script: Written in a cursive script, with caption headings in a humanistic cursive.
Binding: Contemporary leather with name "CL. DECHAMPHEV." on upper cover; older paper with fragments of a religious text in a Gothic script visible under pastedowns on upper and lower covers.
Origin: Written in France in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.

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. 40 (Ms. Latin 172).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1095.

OCLC:

186469404

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