Details

Subjects:

Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Isagoge.
Aristotle.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of commentaries on Aristotle's works on logic by an Augustinian professor named Christophorus Labbaletrie (one on Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's Categoriae, Labbaletrie's own commentary on the Categoriae, one on De interpretatione, and one on the Posterior analytics), and one attributed to a professor of philosophy named Larois, followed by an unattributed philosophical work and a commentary on Aristotle's Topics. Text may be missing before the second gathering, based on the change of hand between gatherings and a dangling catchword at the beginning of the second gathering (f. 8r).

Contents:

1. f.1r-55v: Isagoge Porphiriana / sub revendo patre Christophoro de Labbaletrie, Ordinis Santi Augustini.
2. f.58r-93v: Liber Categoriarum Aristotelis / a reverendo patre Christophoro de Labaletrie compositus.
3. f.93v-103v: Commentarius in libros De interpretatione.
4. f.104r-113v: Commentarius in libros Posteriorum / compositus a reverendo patre Christophoro de Labbaletrie.
5. f.115r-173r: Breves dialecticae institutiones / sub reverendo domino Larois philosophiae professore.
6. f.174r-216r: [Philosophical work]
7. f.217r-228r: Commentarius [on the Topics]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i + 229; 1⁸(-1) 2-13⁸ 14⁸(-5) 15-16⁸ 17-18⁴ 19-23⁸ 24⁸(-2) 25-26⁸ 27⁶ 28-30⁸ 31⁸(-1); [3-19, i-iii, 21-71, i, 77-119] (f. 1r-58r), modern pagination in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on some gatherings, upper left recto (f. 8r, 16r, 24r, 123r).
Layout: Written in up to 42 long lines; margins impressed by ruling board.
Script: Written in cursive script by at least 4 hands.
Binding: Contemporary or near-contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment with remnants of 2 pairs of parchment ties; later spine title in ink, MS Logica Aristotelis Porphiri Etc. 1666.
Origin: Probably written in France, dated 1666 (f. 67r, 93v, 103v, 173r).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Georges de la Verdure d'Hesquelles and possibly other members of his family (inscriptions in multiple hands, inside front cover, recto front flyleaf, f. 229v).
Formerly owned by linguist Ernest Noyes (bookplate, inside front cover).
Sold at an earlier date by the Heritage Book Shop (Beverly Hills, California).
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 34.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
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. 24-25 (LJS 203).

Cited as:

LJS 203

Contributor:

Verdure d'Hesquelles, Georges de la, 1646-1709, former owner.
Noyes, Ernest, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

837631835

Web link:

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