University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 766

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1664

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 766

Title:

In physicam seu philosophiam na[tura]lem commentarius una cum quaestionibus

Natural philosophy

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1579.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 304 leaves : paper ; 207 x 157 (174 x 114) mm bound to 215 x 165 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Incipit: Quemadmodum apud morales philosophos iustitia... (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 304 + i (contemporary paper); 16(first leaf flyleaf) 2-58 62 76 8-298 3012 318 3210 33-388 398(-2, perhaps pastedown; last leaf flyleaf); [1-304]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Gatherings 1-23 signed A-Z (gathering 1 signed on second leaf; no J, U, or W), gathering 24 signed with a crossed Z, gatherings 25-39 signed AA-PP (no J). Link...
Layout: Written in 35-43 long lines.
Script: Written in a small cursive script by what appears to be a single hand, with marginal annotations in a similar hand.
Binding: Contemporary blind stamped pigskin.
Origin: Written in Germany, completed April 13, 1579 (f. 304v).
Formerly in the library of the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (inscriptions, f. i recto, 1r).
Sold by Robert Alder (Bern), 1950.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physics

Early works

Physics (Aristotle)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924875253503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3xp6v78w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania