Beinecke MS 541
Italy, s. XV
Logical treatises

In the description the foliation at the bottom of the pages is followed.

1. f. 1r-v	Omnes qui aliquid memorie dignum suis posteris reliquerunt aut rerum 
magnitudine aut ipsarum dispositione preclarum aliquid ediderunt ... affluenter modo ad Dei 
laudem omnia vota nostra procedant ad laudem et gloriam infiniti Amoris. TE?.

Preface to the following work.

2. ff. 2r-56v	Trascendentia sunt sex, scilicet: ens, aliquid, unum, verum, bonum, res. Dicuntur 
trascendentia quia omnia in se includunt vel quia de omnibus verificantur ... Et hec de 
insolubilibus dicta sufficiant.	ff. 57r-58v ruled but blank

Paulus Pergulensis (Venetian scholar, d. 1451), Compendium logicae; ed. Venice, 1486.

3. ff. 59r-65r	Substantia predicamentalis dividitur in primam et 2am. Prima substantia est que 
propie [sic] et principaliter ... ; [f. 59v :] Quantitas dividitur duobus modis, primo in continuum et 
discretum ... [f. 60r :] Relatio dividitur in relacionem secundum esse ... ; [f. 61r :] Qualitas est 
forma accidentalis ... ; [f. 61v :] Actio est forma accidentalis secundum quam nos dicimur... ; [f. 
62r :] Passio est effectus illatioque actionis ... ; [f. 63r :] Positio est quidam situs ... ; Q*** nota  
est quod ex ad ***entia temporis relinquitur ... ; [f. 64r :] Ubi est circumscriptio corporis ... 
[Thomas de Aquino, De praedicamento ubi quid est, c. 2]; [f. 65r :] Habitus autem est corporum 
et eorum ... Et hec de predicamentis dicta sufficiant. Finis [Thomas de Aquino, De habitu 
(Summa logicae, c. 4)].

Logical texts.

4. ff. 65v-69r	Boetius inquit : Argumentum est ratio rei dubie fidem ... Et hec de sillogismis 
dicta sufficiant. Finis.

Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus syllogismorum.

5. ff. 69r-70v	[Q]uoni[a]m ignoratis principiis ignorantur et ea que secuntur a hiis ... Et sic sit 
finis tractatus de inventione medii. Finis.		ff. 71r-80v blank, not ruled

Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus de inventione medii.

6. f. 81r-v 	Tabula totius libri logic@. Transcendentia - Predicamenta : libro primo carta 2 ... 
Sextus tractatus. Insolubile: libro 6 carta 61. Et hec de logice Pauli magistri Pergulensis tabula 
sufficiant.

Table of Contents of art. 2, referring to the early foliation.


Paper, ff. I + 81 + I, 220 x 150 mm. Watermarks ?? Early foliation in the top outer corner of the 
recto pages, valid for the recto and the facing verso, "1"-"14" (ff. 1-14), "27"-"93" (ff. 15-81). 
The upper outer edges of ff. 53-60 badly damaged by mice. Water stains have considerably 
weakened the paper, especially in  the last quires.

I 10 (ff. 1-10), II 4 (ff. 11-14), III 8 (ff. 15-22), IV 10 (ff. 23-32), V 12 (ff. 33-44), VI 14 (ff. 45-58), 
VII 12 (ff. 59-70), VIII 12 (ff. 71-81). A quire of 12 folios (early foliation "15"-"26")  is missing 
between quires II and III. Vertical catchwords. Simple leaf signatures in arabic numerals in the 
lower outer margin of the recto pages of the first half of quires IV-VII. 

Full pricking in the upper, outer and lower margins and ruling in lead for one column of 20 lines 
above top line (type 13, 125 x 85 mm.).

Artt. 1-5 written by a single hand in a small and highly abbreviated Humanistica Cursiva Currens. 
Art. 6 is added in red ink on unruled pages by another contemporary hand writing  Humanistica 
Cursiva Currens close to Humanistica Textualis.

The decoration is uneven (parts are undecorated) and consists of  chapter headings, plain initials 
and  paragraph marks in red. Heightening in red of some capitals. Logical diagrams on ff. 7v, 8r, 
8v, 9r, 9v. Titles are missing on ff. 2r, 59r (?), 65v (?), 69r (?).

Binding s. XX: marbled paper over cardboard. In the Rosenthal typewritten description the 
binding was still described as "old boards".

There is no explanation for the irregular quire construction of this manuscript, but there is a 
codicological break between art. 2 and 3. Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal in New York by 
Thomas E. Marston. Presented by Thomas E. Marston, October, 1973.

Albert Derolez

Updated 27.11.2007