Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Summula

Call number

Ms. Codex 1041
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3957168
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3957168

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1640 and 1699

Place

England?

Summary

Brief and probably partial treatise on logic, with sections devoted to simple terms, combination of terms, and argument (limited to syllogism).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied based on form of text (Fotheringham); date based on watermark.
   
• Incipit: Logica est ars rationis seu potius habitus instrumentarius dirigans mentem nostram incognitione omnium intelligibilium ... (f. 1r).
   
• Explicit: ...semper reducuntur per impossibilis et imperfecti omnes, quamvis non semper ad modum suae initiales (f. 85r).
   

Watermark

Jug filled with floral forms crowned by a crescent; similar to Churchill, 466 and 471 (dated 1642).

Extent

181 leaves : 191 x 146 mm. bound to 195 x 154 mm

Foliation

Paper, 181; [ii, 1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Alex and Emily Fotheringham (Hexham, Great Britain), 2005.
   

Subjects topical

• Logic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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