Details

Other Title:

Logica in octo tractatus tributa.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
compendiums.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Augustinian Hermit who studied in Oxford and Paris and taught at the university in Padua as early as 1408.

Summary:

Compendium by the author of his own Logica magna, a presentation of terminist logic, including consideration of propositions and relationships between propositions and meaning. This early copy of this text was completed by the German Carmelite Johannes de Beylario, who was from Cologne and studied philosophy and theology in Padua, during the author's tenure in Padua. Later in the century the Logica parva became a required element of the curriculum at Padua, Venice, and Ferrara.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; title added by a later hand, Logica in octo tractatus tributa, in ink, inside upper cover.
Collation: Parchment and paper, 48; 1¹⁰ 2-3¹² 4¹⁴; [1-48], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Horizontal catchwords on last verso of gatherings 1-2, lower center (f. 10v, 22v). Outermost and center bifolia of each gathering are parchment, the rest paper. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 39-43 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in Italian Gothic cursive script by 2 hands (f. 1-22, 23-48); gatherings 3 and 4 (f. 23-48) in the hand of Johannes de Beylario (f. 48v).
Decoration: 11-line opening initial in mauve, blue, and pale green on a gold ground (f. 1r); 3 4-line initials in mauve or pale green on a purple ground (f. 1r, 4v, 12v, 20v); 4-line initials in red throughout, some with penwork in black ink; paragraph marks in red and capitals touched with red throughout; simple decorative frames in ink around catchwords (f. 10v, 22v).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Monts 11863 (Italy, 1402-1403).
Binding: Limp parchment with a few inscriptions, including a slightly garbled version of the rhymed motto that appears with a figurative representation of the Republic of Venice carved for the Ducal Palace in the Piazza San Marco in the mid-14th century (Forti[s] iusta trono furia[s] mare sub pede pono) on the upper cover.
Origin: Probably written in Padua, at the university; completed in 1420 (f. 48v).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H. P. Kraus, cat. 91 (1993), no. 41, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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. 20 (LJS 56).

Cited as:

Paolo Veneto, Logica parva (LJS 56). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Johannes, de Beylario, scribe.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

794777123

Web link:

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

Collation model