Identifier:

COLLECTION 968, BOX 1, NO.71.

Scope and content:

1) ff. 1-75v: Miscellanea id est variae de variis rebus sententiae a me collectae . . . Hic substiti 4 Idus lulii 1574, cum de discessu cogitare inciperem et quatuor pauloplus annis Lutetiae mora facta, patrios lares repetere proponerem. Laus Deo.

2) ff. 76-81: Poemata latina P. Galteri [with the date 1574 on f. 81].

3) ff. 81v-82v: Legal notes.

4) ff. 93-98: Poesie francoise [with the dates 1573 (f. 84), 1574 (f. 87), and, bottom of f.87:] 1575 Aureliae, mense Iulio.

5) ff. 87v-94v: Aureliae haec conscripsi [in margin], Continuantur miscellanea que superius ad fol. 76 usque perducta sunt [legal notes].

6) ff. 95-100 [printed fascicle:] Institutio physica perbrevis et dilucida (Paris: Officina Thomae Brumennii, 1572) [with extensive manuscript glosses], f. 100v blank.

7) ff. 101-109: In institutionem physicam annotationes domini Riolani . . . Finis eorum quae dictata atgue annotata sunt a domino Riolano in institutionem physicam 1572, Laus Deo.

8) ff. 109v-112v: Paraphrasis [of portions of the Corpus Iuris Civilis].

9) ff. 113-141v: Praefala in physicam Aristotelis a Petro Maiorio Claromontano doctore, a Calendis Octobris 1572 . . . Finis eorum quae ante dictata sunt quam ad contextum librorum physicorum Aristotelis ventum sit. 1572.

10) ff. 142-144v: Notes on the Corpus luris Civilis.

11) ff. 145-163v: Annotata in Georgica Virgilii . . . Finis eorum quae in 4. Georgicon. 1572.

12) ff. 164-168v: In primum librum Aeneidos annolata . . . Finis eorum quae in primum Aeneidos..

13) ff. 169-171v: In 2. Aeneidos librum annotata . . . Finis eorum quae in secundum librum sunt notata. 1572.

14) ff. 171v-175v: In 5. librum Annotationes . . . Finis eorum quae in 5. librum sunt notata Deo Gratias, f. 176 blank. 1572.

15) f. 176v: [8-line verse in French:] Huictain responsif a un aultre. Sur I'enclume d'Andreé, gaillard, forge les vers/ . . . [and a Latin epigram].

16) ff. 177-187: Omnium quae in Miscellaneis superioribus continentur Index Alphabeticus . . . Finis 1575 mense Maio, P.G. ff. 187v-188 blank; 188v is pastedown.

See Nicole Marzac, “The Notebooks of Pierre Gautier: The Academic and Social Life of a Sixteenth-Century Student in Paris and Burgundy,” Bibliothèque d'humanisme el renaissance 36 (1974) 621-632.

Acquisition information:

Written in Paris and Orléans between 1572 and 1575 (ff. 75v, 109, 141v, 175v, 187) by Pierre Gautier; f. 187v, “Sum Petri Galteri advocati Cabilonensis [Chalon-sur-Saône]. 25 Iunii 1578,” “Sum Petri Gautier Cabilonensis,” “Petrus Gautier,” and (twice) “Gautier”; f. iii v , “P. Gautier.” Bought by UCLA from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, in 1966.

Physical description:

Paper, ff. iii + 188; 210 × 160 (170/190 × 110/125) mm. Quires of 8 leaves. Long lines and (ff. 177-187) 2 cols., 32/41 lines per page. Written by one hand, the legal and literary matter in italic script (ff. 1-94v, 109v-112v, 142-187), the scientific matter in chancery script (ff. 101-109, 113-141v).

Contemporary binding in limp parchment; remains of a paper label on the spine.

Bibliography:

Charles B. Schmitt, “Acquisition of Early French Books and Manuscripts,” UCLA Librarian vol.19, no.3 (1966) p.11.

Note:

A copy of this manuscript is UCLA Negative Microfilm no.03849.

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