Aristotle Commentaries

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS GRAVES 12
Held at	: University College London - click here to see details of the physical location of collection
Full 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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin. Cursive script.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

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

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.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

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

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 2001