Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. De anima -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Soul -- Early works to 1800.
Soul.
Scholasticism.
Sundials -- Design and construction -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials -- Design and construction.
Sundials.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentaries on four works by Aristotle, discussing generation and corruption, second causes, free will, the soul, the being of the real and the impossible, and natural morality. Also includes instructions (with diagrams) for making a sundial.

Contents:

1. f.1r-8r: Tabula sententiarum et adnotabilium / Joannes Antonius.
2. f.10r-150r: Disputationes in duos libros Aristotelis De ortu et interitu sive De generatione et corruptione / Joannes Antonius.
3. f.151r-246r: Disputationes in libros De anima / Joannes Antonius.
4. f.246v-258v: In Aristotelis Metafisicam / Joannes Antonius.
5. f.259r-272r: In libros ethicorum Aristotelis sive De moribus ad Nichomachum / Joannes Antonius.
6. f.275r-280r: Tractatus de horologiis solaribus cum corum figuris quas sequens pagina distincte indicat / Salvaterra.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 282 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁰ 2(-10)¹⁰ 3-27¹⁰ 28-29⁸ 30⁴(-4) 31⁴; signed 1-31 in ink on bottom center of first page of each quire; catchword lower right recto and verso of every leaf; contemporary ink and modern pencil foliation [i], 1-281, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 28 long lines, text block outlined in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive script by Pesciettus Jacobus Maria (f. i recto, 10r).
Watermark: Similar to W. A. Churchill 555 (1676), incorporating the coat of arms of Genoa.
Decoration: Sundial diagrams (f. 276v-277v).
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in Genoa, Italy, in 1680.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bottega d'Erasmo (Torino, Italy), 1960.

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. 36 (Ms. Latin 155).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1129

Contributor:

Salvaterra, Father.
Pesciettus Jacobus Maria, scribe.

OCLC:

192004822