MS 170: Adolphus Lennep, Commentary on Aristotle's Logic.

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      Support (paper) 196 x 148 mm. Text area: typically 178 x 114 mm. Fol. iii + 250 + iii leaves. (1 complete sequence of foliation dated 1994 on fol. vir: iii + 250 + iv-vi leaves; integral pagination from fols 1r-248v: 469 480-506 p.). Binding: Early 19th c? tan calf over millboard. Double blind fillet border to boards. 5 raised bands to spine defined by blind fillets, with gilt stamped classmark at head of spine. All edges gilt, with classmark in black ink centrally to fore-edge, and title to top of fore-edge: “Adolphi | Lennep | Logica | MS.” Marbled endpapers. Binding dimensions:203 x 158 mm. Title page (fol. 1r) drawn in ink, with title set within a hand-coloured cartouche incorporating a dart or arrow. The divisional title pages for De genere (36r) and De specie (41r) are both in elaborate ink drawn cartouches with ornamentation, floral and avian respectively.

Scope and Content

Manuscript in fair copy of a commentary on Aristotle's Organon by 'Adolphus Lennep', a Jesuit, apparently continued by 'Johannes Christmann Huber', with colophons dated 1614. Although billed as a commentary on Aristotle, the volume begins with a discussion of Porphyry's Isagoge .

1. Fols. 1r-250r: Lennep, Adolphus, Commentarius in Aristotelis Logicam (title page, fol. 1r) Latin. Single 16th c. italic hand in black ink to fol. 246v, line 24, when a second hand of similar type takes over (Johannes Huber?). Divisions marked in several ways (divisional title pages with and without decoration, capitalized captions, non-capitalized captions) with no clear hierarchy?, although usually using a larger decorative humanistic script. Written in long lines, with ca. 28-30 lines to a page. Catchwords bottom right hand corner to fol. 246r. Running titles to fol. 85r.

  • a. General title page, fol. 1r: "Com | mentarius | in Ar[istote]lis Lo- | gicam, dictatus | a R.P. Adolpho | Lennep P. Soc. Iesu | exceptus ve | ro a Ioanne | Christmanno Hu | ber Logico." [fol. 1v blank].
  • b. Introductory, fols 2r-21r: [Caption, fol. 2r] "Quæstio prima. [Text] An sit philosophiæ studendum ... Finis Prologomenorum."
  • c. Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge, fols 21r-60v: [Caption, fol. 21r] "Commentarius in Isagogen Porphyriana. [Text] Porphyrius ratione Tirius platonicæ sectæ constans ... [decorated divisional title page, fol. 36r] Caput primum eiusdem auctoris de Genere ... [decorated divisional title page, fol. 41r] Sequitur caput secundum eiusde[m] auctoris de specie ... [colophon, 60v] Finis Porphyrii de uniuersalibus absoluta sunt decimoquinto Februarii anno salutis humanæ m.dc.xiv."
  • d. Commentary on Aristotle's Organon , Fols 61r-187v: [Caption, fol. 61r] "In praedicamenta Ar[istote]lis. [Text] Prooemium. Prolixe a plerisq[ue] disquiri soler. Primo quis ... [colophon fol. 181r] Finis libri Primi Posteriorum impositus 6 Junij. [divisional title page, fol. 181v] In librum secundum posteriorum Aristotelis Stagaritæ. Inceptus eodem die quo prim[us] absolutus ... [colophon fol. 187v] Finis librorum analyticorum Aristotelis."
  • e. Tract on knowledge, fols 188r-226r: [Divisional title page, fol. 188r] "Sequitur Tractatus de Scientia. [fol. 188v blank. Text, fol. 189r] Prooemium. Omnium donorum ... [colophon, 226r] O Homo meme[n]to finis; vnde veneris, quid sis & quis futur[us]."
  • f. Index, fols 226v-230v: [Caption, fol. 226v] "Index omnium Dubiorum quæ hac cursu Logico continentur ordine alphabetico-digestus ... Finis." [fols 231r-232r blank]
  • g. Compendium, fols 232v-250r: [Divisional title page, fol. 232v] "Compendiolum in uniuersam Aristotelis Stagirita logicam. [Caption, fol. 233r] Caput I. De naa Logica. [text] Logica q[ue] ab Ar[istot]elis Organon ... [colophon, fol. 250r] totius dialecticae finis, est, ad Sacrosanctae trinitatis gloriana et bonorum. Amen. Anno 1614." [fol. 250v blank].

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Acquisition Information

Given by William Sherburne (1594-1679), Fellow of St John's College, in 1622, see College Benefactor's Book (MS 374), col. xcvii: "Adolphi Lennep è Societate Jesu. Logica MS." Ex libris at head of fol. 2r: "Liber Coll. Sti. Jo. Bapt. Oxon. Ex dono Gulielmi Sherborn, Artium Mri. Eiusdem Coll. Socij 1622."

18th c. bookplate of St John's College on fol. 1v. 20th c. bookplate of St John's College on front pastedown. College shelfmark on fol. iir, "MSS. 170".

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Bibliography

Hegarty, Andrew, 2011. A biographical register of St John's College, Oxford, 1555-1660 . Oxford, Boydell Press for the Oxford Historical Society, p. 132.

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