Details

Standardized Title:

Logica parva

Subjects:

Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Logic, Medieval.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Illuminations.
Pen and wash drawings.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Professor of logic in Padua, Siena (1420-1424), and Perugia (1424-1428); member of the community of Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia.

Summary:

Work on scholastic logic used in universities in the late 15th century, followed by a brief logical work by Paolo della Pergola, a student of Paolo Veneto.

Contents:

1. f.1r-87r: Loyca parva / Paulus Venetus.
2. f.87r-90v: Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso / Paulus Pergolensis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from closing rubric of predominant work (f. 87r).
Collation: Paper, i (late 16th- or early 17th-century) + 90 + i (late 16th- or early 17th-century); 1-9¹⁰; [1-90], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Vertical catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower right verso. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 36 lines.
Script: Written in humanistic cursive script by Franciscus Alexandrus de Callio, another member of the community of Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia (f. 87r).
Decoration: 5-line initial in pink, black, green, and gold, with extensions of acanthus leaves, flowers, and gold bezants (f. 1r); pen-and-wash diagram of logical relationships (f. 3v); pen-and-wash diagram in the form of a Porphyrian tree showing a progression from substantia to homo (f. 7v); 2 3-line initials in red at the beginning of the second work (f. 87r); many spaces left empty throughout, with guide letters, for 2-line initials; rubrication and paragraph marks in both text and margins in faint red ink; occasional manicules (for example, f. 22r).
Binding: Late 16th or early 17th-century parchment; leather spine label, Tract[atus] de comp[osito] et divis[o]; arms of Pope Gregory XIII and Jesuit monogram stamped on spine in black ink.
Origin: Written in the abbey of the Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia in 1475 (f. 87r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the library of the Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico in Rome (inscription, f. 1r).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2003.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 21 (LJS 457).

Cited as:

LJS 457

Contributor:

Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Contains:

Pergola, Paolo della, -1455. De sensu composito et diviso.

OCLC:

805393606

Web link:

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

Collation model