Newberry Library, VAULT folio Case MS 23

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18152

Shelfmark:

VAULT folio Case MS 23

Title:

Aristotle, Physica, De caelo et Mundo, Metaphysica, Parva naturalis, etc.

Works of Aristotle

Author:

Aristotle

Aristotle WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany?

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 188 leaves : parchment ; 331 x 252 (210 x 143) mm.

Former Owner(s):

Stift Melk

Melk Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 188 (modern foliation 1-183, unnumbered folios after fol. 7, 14, 32, 112, and 116); 1-78 810 (5 stub only) 9-228 2312(-12), quires numbered I-XXII on lower margin of verso of last folio; catchwords.
Layout: Written in 40 lines in two columns; prickings visible in outer margin of verso of last folio.
Script: Written in northern European gothic textualis media.
Decoration: fol. 1r: flourished initial 8 lines high extended to form partial margins; at beginning of texts 1-6; initial word or words written alternately in red and blue; alternating blue and red flourished initials and paragraph marks throughout.
Origin: Written in Germany or Austria in the first half of the 14th century.
Former owner's inscription: Monasterii Mellicensis.
Formerly Melk no. 529 (J47) with stamps: Bibliothek zu Melk; Bibliothek des Stiftes Melk.

Keyword:

textura (Gothic script)

manuscripts (documents)

Medicine, Ancient

Early works

Astronomy, Greek

Cosmology, Ancient

Philosophy, Ancient

Metaphysics

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998694968805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBT0IO

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library