[Summa totius logicae]

Name:

William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1350

Description:

A work of logic divided into 4 parts with an incomplete table of contents at the end (f. 102r-103v).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence), 1907.

Subject:

Logic -- Early works to 1800; Logic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); illuminations (paintings); Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

103 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 245 x 177 (174 x 121) mm bound to 254 x 180 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Incipit: Dudum me frater et amice tuis litteris studebas inducere ut aliquas regulas artis logice... (f. 1r).; Explicit: Explicit loica Magistri Guilielmi Ocham scripta per me fratrem Matheum de Faventia ordinis servorum studentem bononiae (f. 102r).; Collation: Parchment, iv (modern paper) + 103 + iv (modern paper); 1-10¹⁰ 11⁴⁻¹(-4); [1-103]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 45 lines; frame-ruled in ink; some prickings visible.; Script: Written in a Gothic book script by several hands. Last part copied by Matthew of Faventia (f. 102r).; Decoration: 5-line inhabited initials with a monk's head (f. 1r, 88r); illuminated border with vines and shield (f. 1r); illuminated initials, in green, red, blue, gold, and pink (f. 30v, 44r, 59v, 61r, 71r); rubricated headings; 2-line chapter initials in alternating red and blue with red or purple contrasting ornamentation.; Binding: Modern crimson half-morocco.; Origin: Written in Bologna (f. 102r) in the last half of the 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 825