Petrus Hispanus,
Summulae logicales Incipit: Dyalectica est ars artium ⟨et sciencia scienciarum⟩
Explicit: et hec de locis dicta sufficiant
I–V, ed. I. M. Bochenski, Rome, 1947: varies from the printed text
Language(s): Latin
(fol.44)
Treatise on terms Incipit: Ad ⟨h⟩abendum veram noticiam terminorum
Explicit: homo erit est proposicio contingens
The sections are: suppositiones, amplificationes, apellationes, consequentiae, de copulativis, de exclusivis, de exceptivis, de regulis generalibus. The first ends (fol.52) ‘et sic patet de suposicionibus terminorum in generali et in speciali secundum ordinem magistri Berlingani’.
Language(s): Latin
(fol.64)
Logical treatise Rubric: Terminus. In quem minor est qui sequitur
Incipit: Quia ignorantes probaciones proposicionum
Explicit: est bona con⟨sequenc⟩ia
The writer quotes ‘Verelinganus in tractatu de exponibilibus’ (fol.66). Fol.70–84v are blank.
Language(s): Latin
(fol.85)
Logical treatise Rubric: Quaestio de distinctionibus formalitatum
Incipit: Queritur utrum omnis distincio sit realis vel racionalis
Explicit: plorans plorat ploracione
Colophon: vox turturis audita est
Language(s): Latin
(fol.91)
Treatise on suppositions Incipit: Ad evidenciam tractatus supposicionum pleniorem
Explicit: tamen multi minus
On fol.103 is a list of ‘controversiae inter Ocam et Scotum’, a sophisma on ‘homo est animal’ and a note on suppositions.
Colophon: vox turturis audita est
Language(s): Latin
(fol.106)
Treatise de principiis Incipit: In primo libro phisicorum Aristotiles determinat de tribus principiis
Explicit: pertransit equale
Language(s): Latin
Secundo Folio: significant separate
Form: codex
Support: Paper. Watermarks: wagon with circles and crown cf. Briquet 3547, 8; double circle with star, not identified in Briquet.
Extent: 106 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120–5 × 70–85 mm.
Foliation: contemporary foliation of i–xxxxiiii, l–cx
Collation
1(16) (wants 1), 2(16), 3(12), 4(20), 5(16)(wants 5), 6(16), 7(12) Catchwords.
Layout
20–30 long lines, frame ruling
Decoration
Miniature (pen drawing) pasted in on fol. 1. (Pächt and Alexander i. 890).
Plain red initials.
Origin: 15th century, second half ;
Spanish Provenance and Acquisition
Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1954, lot 21.