Scholar's notebook
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Description
- Title
- Scholar's notebook
- Published / Created
- 1422.
- Publication Place
- Bohemia
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper (thick, rough) of passages drawn mainly from Aristotle on natural and moral philosophy, logic, music, metaphysics, physics, ethics, and politics. The main portion of the codex (ff. 44r-294r) was written in Cracow in 1422 by a student of Magister Paulus de Worczin
- Description
-
In Latin.
Watermarks: unidentified bull's head.
Script: Written primarily (ff. 44-294) by a single person in a cramped running script, with many abbreviations and in a more elegant display script for some headings and colophon; several other writers are responsible for arts. 1-4.
Plain initials, headings, and paragraph marks, in red, for ff. 1r-29v. Spaces left for initials and rubrics on ff. 44r-294r.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on three double, twisted, tawed thongs which are laced into wooden boards of unequal shape and thickness. Plain, wound endbands sewn on tawed cores are laced into the boards from the spine edge. The cover is adhered to the square spine and kermes pink placemarks to the fore-edge. One quarter covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with lines forming triangles, and very small flowers. One fastening, the catch on the upper board, the brown calf strap attached to the lower with a metal plate. Parchment labels at head of front board. Lower joint repaired, strap wanting. - Provenance
- Purchased by Yale in 1956 with the Penniman Fund.
- Extent
- ff. 295 : 217 x 150 (ca. 165 x 120) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 225
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Poland 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven.
Kraków (Poland) - Subject (Name)
- Aristotle.
- Subject (Topic)
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Education, Humanistic
Learning and scholarship
Manuscripts, Medieval
Philosophy - Subjects
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Aristotle
Education, Humanistic
Learning and scholarship
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Philosophy > Early works to 1800
Kraków (Poland)
Poland > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Scholar's Notebook. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9795111
- Object ID (OID)
- 10269822
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