Liber phisicorum sive auditus phisici

Contributor:

Bergendal Collection (former owner)

Name:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1349

Description:

Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, divided into 8 books. Occasional marginal notes.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Benost for 4 Parisian pounds, possibly to Mg. Nicholaus Pons, 7 October 1349 (erased inscription inside upper cover).; Owned in northern Italy later in the 14th-century (inscription concerning a financial transaction at Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, near Forli, in 1355, inside lower cover).; Sold for 4 pounds to Johannes a Toscanella, possibly at Marola, in 1452 (erased inscription at end of text, f. 92v).; Formerly owned by Otto H. F. Vollbehr (Washington, D.C.).; Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, California).; Sold at auction at Sotheby's in Part III of the Honeyman collection, 2 May 1979, lot 1093.; Formerly held in the Bergendal Collection, Ms. 10.; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, February 1998.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.; Vollbehr, Otto H. F. 1869-1946, former owner.; Honeyman, Robert B., former owner.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1338709; 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/ljs234.html

Subject:

Aristotle Criticism and interpretation Early works to 1800; Aristotle. Physics Early works to 1800; Aristotle; Physics -- Early works to 1800; Physics; Physical sciences -- Early works to 1800; Physical sciences; Criticism and interpretation

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); commentaries; illuminations (paintings); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

94 leaves : parchment; 320 x 225 (242 x 170) mm bound to 325 x 235 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).; Collation: Parchment, i + 94; 1-7¹² 8¹²(-2); 1-92, [93-94], early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords, lower right last verso of gatherings 1-7, horizontal, framed in red ink.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 71 lines; faintly ruled in lead.; Script: Written in Gothic script by 2 hands (f. 1r-84v, 85r-92v).; Decoration: Opening illuminated initial in gold, pink, blue, and yellow, with extensions forming a three-quarters border, somewhat damaged by flaking or rubbing (f. 1r); 6 3-line initials and 1 marginal initial, in pink, blue, and yellow, with extensions sometimes including blue dragons, marking the beginning of Books 2-8 (f. 13r, 24r, 33r, 50v, 57v with dragon, 69v, 75v with dragon); numerous initials in red with blue penwork or red with blue penwork; rubrication and paragraph marks in red. Occasional manicules (for example, f. 34v-35r, 72r); Binding: Contemporary (14th-century) leather over boards, blind-tooled, with remnants of 2 pairs of clasps; worm damage. Marginal notes, especially in the lower margins, show signs of trimming.; Origin: Written in northern France, in the region historically known as Flanders, before 1349 (erased inscription recording purchase in 1349, inside upper cover).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 234

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)