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Aristotle Commentaries

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS GRAVES 12

Held at: University College London

Title: Aristotle Commentaries

Date(s): 17th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 242 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection of five 17th-century treatises on Aristotle's work on the sky, clocks, the soul, the eye, and the globe, comprising:
Commentarius in libros Aristotelis De Coelo, 1662, including printed title-page, ink diagrams in the text, other diagrams (some folded) pasted in, and index (ff 1r-93v);
Tractatus Brevis de Conscribendis Horologiis, 1663, including printed title-page, diagrams pasted in, index, and printed Tabulae Horologio Graphicae (9 leaves) dated 28 Aug 1662 (ff 95r-120r);
Commentarius in Libros Aristotelis De Anima, 1663, including title-page with printed border, some red ink in text, printed diagram dated 1636, and index dated 1663 (ff 124r-222r);
Tractatus Brevis de Oculo, 1663, including title-page with printed border, title in red, some ink drawings and other diagrams pasted in, and index (ff 223r-233v);
undated Tractatus Brevis De Sphaera Materiali. Sphaerae totius universi description eius sub R Patre Gislerio Payen e Societate Jesu. Duaci, including title-page with printed border, ink diagrams, index and tables (ff 236r-249v).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin. Cursive script.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript in brown calf binding with stamped device and gilt decoration. Spine broken. One hand. Some printed leaves inserted. Diagrams pasted in. 20cm.

Finding aids:

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935), and handlist at University College London Special Collections.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

The manuscripts formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 2624.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.