Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Solar system.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Lecture notes.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Refutation of Copernican heliocentric theory and defense of Aristotelian geocentric principles, followed by an exposition of the nature of the universe, the various celestial bodies, their behavior, their form, their composition and elements, their motion, and the zodiac. The Astronomia is followed by commentary or lecture notes on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, possibly also written by Caspar Mandlacher.

Contents:

1. f.i recto-113v: Astronomia / Johann Appenzeller.
2. f.116r-161r: Prolegomena in decem Nicomachiorum Ethicorum / [Caspar Mandlacher?]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Incipit (Work 1): Astronomia agit de corpore simplici, circa centrum mobili, quas tuor praecipuas habet partes... (f. i recto); Explicit (Work 1): ...iri qualium diameter continet in universum duodecim atq[ue] h[?]s de theoria et reliquis Astronomiae p[ar]tib[us] (f. 113v).
Incipit (Work 2): Cum ars doctrina teste Ar[istot]le... (f. 116r); Explicit (2): ...[de] signo [pro]posito multis [?] (f. 161r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 161 + i (modern paper); 1-24, 24-26, 29, 2, 31, 28, 32, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, [1-161], upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 19-34 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Table of eclipses at the latitude of the University of Ingolstadt (f. i verso); table of astrolabe measurements of stars (f. 82r); marginal notes.
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in Ingolstadt, Germany, ca. 1599-1604.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Orville H. Bullitt (sold by Tenner), 1970.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 107 (Ms. Latin 251).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1217

Contributor:

Mandlacher, Caspar.

Contains:

Prolegomena in decem Nicomachiorum Ethicorum.

OCLC:

233535980