University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 765

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1663

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 765

Title:

Organon.

Author:

Aristotle

Aristotle WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1450 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 235 x 167 (150 x 105) mm bound to 241 x 168 mm

Note:

Incipit (1st work, f. 2v): Primo definire opportet quid nam sit nomen et quid verbum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Contemporary wooden boards. Upper cover nearly detached.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Also includes dedicatory prefaces to Piero de' Medici (f. 1r-2v) and Cosimo de' Medici (f. 35v-36r).
This manuscript represents an early version of the text (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, with marginal annotations in at least one other hand.
Decoration: Illuminated initial in gold, blue and green (f. 1r); blue initials and rubricated headings throughout; diagrams in red interspersed in the text.
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Logic

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3c24qp3q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania