University of Pennsylvania, LJS 483

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS719

Shelfmark:

LJS 483

Title:

Questions on Aristotle's Physics.

Place:

Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt TGN

Date:

[circa 1480]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 239 leaves : paper ; 209 x 156 (145-160 x 85-100) mm bound to 220 x 168 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Ingolstadt (in studio Ingolste[dii?], inside upper cover), circa 1480.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Original (15th-century) leather, blind-tooled, over wooden boards with brass fittings and 2 clasps.
Collation: Paper, 239; 1¹²(+ 2) 2¹⁰ 3-19¹² 20¹²(-1); [i, 1-2, i, 3-7, i, 8-174, i-ii, 175-234], modern foliation in pencil, every tenth leaf and leaves before and after unnumbered leaves, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 31-37 long lines; verticals formed by folding at the half and quarter on most leaves.
Decoration: Large (6-line to 8-line) ornamental initials in red ink at several of the book divisions of the Physics (f. 1r, 60r, 176r, 195r, 206v), with open spaces and guide initials for the others (f. 86v, 115v, 150v); underlining in red and initials touched with red in the material on Books 1 and 2 (f. 1r-59v); horizontal Porphyrian tree illustrating cognitio with touches of red ink (f...
Script: Written in cursive Gothic script by multiple hands.
Formerly owned by Erik Wirén (Stocksund, Sweden; bookplate inside upper cover with initials D.G.V.B.), no. 3538; exhibited with other Wirén manuscripts at the Röhsska Konstlöjdmuseet (Göteborg, Sweden; cat. 19), 1954.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, July 2006.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Former ownership marks: small elongated octagonal stamp with star above waves above a circle, motto in border Habent sua fata libelli, with other text crossed out (inside upper cover); printed description from German catalog with date 16 February 1920 added by hand (inside upper cover).

Keyword:

Finding tabs

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical sciences

Physics

Criticism and interpretation

Physics (Aristotle)

Aristotle

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959580863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p36q1sh73/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania