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Title

Facsimile of LJS 493, Manuscript leaf from Physics

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

6-5-2015

Files

Comments

Parchment leaf, slightly trimmed on the inner vertical edge and used in a binding, from a manuscript of the Translatio vetus of the Physics of Aristotle, a translation from Greek to Latin by Jacobus de Venetiis. The manuscript was written in France in the third quarter of the 12th century, in an early Gothic book script, in 30 long lines. The text on the leaf runs from the end of Book 6 into the beginning of Book 7 (6.10-7.1) and concerns motion and the relationship of the moved and the mover, with a 3-line initial in red marking the beginning of Book 7 on the recto and simple line diagrams on both sides of the leaf. 2 notes of commentary in a smaller contemporary hand in the lower margins of the verso.

Keywords

Physics--Early works to 1800, Physical sciences--Early works to 1800 Fragments, Manuscripts Latin--12th century, Manuscripts Medieval

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4762524

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs493.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 493, Manuscript leaf from Physics" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 21.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/21