Loyca parva ... [etc.]

Name:

Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1475

Description:

Work on scholastic logic used in universities in the late 15th century, followed by a brief logical work by Paolo della Pergola, a student of Paolo Veneto.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly in the library of the Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico in Rome (inscription, f. 1r).; Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2003.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.; Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico, former owner.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1338713; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs457.html; Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/123/

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; illuminations (paintings); pen and wash drawings; treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

90 leaves : paper; 224 x 152 (170 x 100) mm bound to 230 x 170 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Professor of logic in Padua, Siena (1420-1424), and Perugia (1424-1428); member of the community of Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia.; Title for manuscript from closing rubric of predominant work (f. 87r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-87r: Loyca parva / Paulus Venetus.; Table of contents: 2. f.87r-90v: Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso / Paulus Pergolensis.; Collation: Paper, i (late 16th- or early 17th-century) + 90 + i (late 16th- or early 17th-century); 1-9¹⁰; [1-90], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Vertical catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower right verso. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 36 lines.; Script: Written in humanistic cursive script by Franciscus Alexandrus de Callio, another member of the community of Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia (f. 87r).; Decoration: 5-line initial in pink, black, green, and gold, with extensions of acanthus leaves, flowers, and gold bezants (f. 1r); pen-and-wash diagram of logical relationships (f. 3v); pen-and-wash diagram in the form of a Porphyrian tree showing a progression from substantia to homo (f. 7v); 2 3-line initials in red at the beginning of the second work (f. 87r); many spaces left empty throughout, with guide letters, for 2-line initials; rubrication and paragraph marks in both text and margins in faint red ink; occasional manicules (for example, f. 22r).; Binding: Late 16th or early 17th-century parchment; leather spine label, Tract[atus] de comp[osito] et divis[o]; arms of Pope Gregory XIII and Jesuit monogram stamped on spine in black ink.; Origin: Written in the abbey of the Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia in 1475 (f. 87r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.; Related Work: Pergola, Paolo della, -1455. De sensu composito et diviso.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 457

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)