Details

Standardized Title:

Physics. Latin. Selections.

Subjects:

Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Physical sciences -- Early works to 1800.
Physical sciences.

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Parchment leaf, slightly trimmed on the inner vertical edge and used in a binding, from a manuscript of the Translatio vetus of the Physics of Aristotle, a translation from Greek to Latin by Jacobus de Venetiis. The manuscript was written in France in the third quarter of the 12th century, in transitional script (or protogothic script), in 30 long lines. The text on the leaf runs from the end of Book 6 into the beginning of Book 7 (6.10-7.1) and concerns motion and the relationship of the moved and the mover, with a 3-line initial in red marking the beginning of Book 7 on the recto and simple line diagrams on both sides of the leaf. 2 notes of commentary in a smaller contemporary hand in the lower margins of the verso.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard Quaritch (London), Summer 2008, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Related Collections:

Another leaf from the same manuscript is held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Cited as:

LJS 493

Contributor:

Jacobus, de Venetiis, active 1136-1150, translator.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

793020053

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page