Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MANUSCRIPT.) Disputat[ion]es in octo libros Phys[ic]o[rum] Aris[tote]lis quas dictabat . . . Jo. Mannerius Societatis Jesu . . . Fran[ciscu]s Pavesius scribebat. illustrated manuscript in latin on paper, written in cursive hand in brownish-black ink, recto and verso, with hand-drawn coat-of-arms on first leaf and over fifty astronomical diagrams in text. [1], 303, [19] leaves, including 4 blanks. 193x130 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened, ties lacking; marginal dampstaining through second half of volume, drawing on verso of leaf 273 partly oxidized with resulting hole causing text loss on recto, few small wormholes through index leaves at end. Italy? 1 November 1647

Additional Details

Apparently unpublished commentary on the Physica of Aristotle.