Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi, Vol. 10: Questiones Supra Libros Prime Philosophie Aristotelis (Metaphysica I, II, V-X) (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Roger Bacon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0243378912 ISBN 13: 9780243378913

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi, Vol. 10: Questiones Supra Libros Prime Philosophie Aristotelis (Metaphysica I, II, V-X)

There does not seem any doubt that the pecia was in the first instance an actual physical division of the manuscript, a gathering of four leaves (a binion) corresponding to a sheet of vellum folded twice to make four folios. It was a con venient division when a lengthy text-boolgl had to be lent out to students to make their own copies, as a number of them could be at work at the same time, each on a separate gathering, While a publisher could multiply copies by setting a different scribe to work for each separate pecia. We have evidence that the first of these methods was employed, since Bologna statutes fix the fine for a lost pecia at 10 solidi, reduced later to 5. But in the hands of unofiìcial scribes the regulation four folios might easily be written in less space, leaving a blank at the end of each pecia. Fr. Blum in his Iter Italiana, ii. 96, mentions an early thirteenth-century manuscript of the [flforflaz'um at Lucca divided into peciae, but so written that the pecia often ended on the third leaf the fourth being sometimes cut off. Evidently a manuscript for private use would begin the second pecia Where the first left off, and so on - marking the division in the margin incipit 2. Pecia pea pe pa This would be especially likely to happen when the resulting manuscript was made up in the usual gatherings of eight, ten, or twelve leaves, instead of four, and when its subject was philosophy or theology. In nearly a11 the surviving manuscripts in which the peciae are marked, they do not coincide With the gatherings.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0243378912
• ISBN 13: 9780243378913
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Latin
• Number of pages: 396