254 - [Astotele]. Disputations on the Eight Books of Aristotle’s *Physics*. Naples 1676., A beautiful 17th-century manuscript on Aristotle’s *Physics*

[Astotele]. Disputations on the Eight Books of Aristotle’s *Physics*. Naples 1676., A beautiful 17th-century manuscript on Aristotle’s *Physics* [Astotele]. Disputations on the Eight Books of Aristotle’s *Physics*. Naples 1676. Quarto (214 x 150 mm); [704] pages. Manuscript on paper in elegant and uniform cursive script. Contemporary full-parchment binding, 4-rib spine with handwritten title and phytomorphic decoration. The manuscript begins with a preface on natural philosophy, *De essentia Scientiae Physicae*, and continues with systematic and detailed *Disputationes* on all the topics of the first six books of Aristotle’s *Physics*, spanning a total of 70 chapters. The unknown author informs us that he has not included Books VII and VIII, as he had already treated them. An extensive seventeenth-century manuscript on Aristotle’s *Physics*