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

Title

Traité de l'infini crée

Authors

• Terrasson, Jean, 1670-1750

Other related names

• Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715, dubious author

Call number

Ms. Codex 968
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3601429
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3601429

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

18th century

Place

France

Summary

Treatise from a Cartesian viewpoint on the infinity of the universe and transubstantiation.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Author from the research of André Robinet (Oeuvres complètes de Malebranche, t. 17 (1960) pt. 1, p. 450-54, and t. 20 (1967) p. 321-26). The attribution to Malebranche, which appeared on the edition published in 1769, is considered apocryphal. Robinet also discusses attributions to the Comte de Boulainvilliers, P.V. Faydit and Pierre Varignon.
   

Extent

86 leaves : 208 x 160 (156 x 105) mm. bound to 214 x 162 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 86 + i; [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half leather (Zacour-Hirsch); upper cover detached.

Layout

Written in 15-17 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding.

Provenance

• Sold by Boussus, 1915.
   

Subjects topical

• Infinite--Early works to 1800
• Plurality of worlds--Early works to 1800
• Transubstantiation--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Essays
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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