Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- 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.
Scholasticism.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Scholastic commentary on Aristotle, covering metaphysics, angels, God's existence and attributes, virtue, duties of men and women, and politics. The last page (f. 196r) contains a maxim: Si vis ad vitam ingredi serva mandata / parens deo libertas est / parens rationi iustitia est / parens mundo stultitia est / parens daemoni impietas est / parens cupiditatibus servitus est / omnium malorum pessimum. The second line of the maxim alludes to Seneca's statement, "parere deo libertas est."

Contents:

1. f.1r-97v: Disputationes in Metaphysicam.
2. f.99r-196r: Disputationes in 10 libros Aristotelis ad Nicomachum.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 230 + i (modern paper); 1-2²⁰ 3¹⁶ 4⁸ 5²⁰ 6¹⁴ 7-8¹⁶ 9¹⁴ 10¹⁶ 11⁸ 12-13¹⁶ 14³⁰; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, [i], 1-18, [i], 19-95, [i], 1-67, [iii], 68-94, [xxxv]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Text block and a column in the outer margin ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Two slightly different watermarks, both similar to Briquet Cloche 4159 (1588) from Le Puy.
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in the second half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch), possibly in France (based on watermark).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Castro e Silva, 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. 47 (Ms. Latin 197).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1148

OCLC:

217255993