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Title

Physica ... etc.

Other related names

• Horblit, Harrison D, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 171
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5803812
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803812

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1696

Place

Italy?

Summary

Commentaries on Parts 2-4 (De principiis rerum materialium, De mundo adspectabili, De terra) of the Principia philosophiae of René Descartes, as well as a work by Descartes on meteors, all under the heading Physica, followed by medical treatises on Peruvian bark (used as a cure for fevers) and fevers more generally, and additional Cartesian writings considering motion, location, and infinity.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from caption title for first work (f. 1r) and spine title.
   

Extent

212 leaves : 182 x 126 (148 x 95) mm. bound to 197 x 145 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 212 + i; 1-10⁸ 11⁷ 12-18⁸ 19⁴ 20-27⁸; 1-62, [i], 63-200, 202-210, [211], foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on each page, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 17th- or early 18th-century) parchment; Physica in ink on spine.

Layout

Written in 32-35 long lines.

Decoration

Small diagrams in ink (f. 180r, 182v); penwork initials at the beginning of each work (f. 1r, 64r, 81r, 91r, 124v); smaller penwork initial with face (f. 97r); penwork vignette at end of third work (f. 124).

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand, with calligraphic chapter headings.

Provenance

• Sold by C. E. Rappaport, Rome (label inside upper cover), 1931.
   
• Formerly owned by Harrison D. Horblit (Ridgefield, Conn.).
   
• Appears in H. P. Kraus's cat. 155 (1980), no. 13, and Hellmut Schumann's cat. 542 (1984), no. 59.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 2.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Cinchona bark--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800
• Fever--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Physica, f. 1r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 1r
• fol. 45r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 45r