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Title

Collegium physico geographicum a viro excellentissimo professore ordinario domino Kant secundum dictata sua pertratum sic studio vero persecutum ab Joanne Siegismundo Kaehler ... etc.

Authors

• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
• Kaehler, Johann Siegismund

Other related names

• Voss, Wilhelm, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1120
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4259941
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4259941

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German

Origin

Date

1775

Place

Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)

Summary

Handwritten notes taken by the student Johann Siegismund Kaehler at the lectures on physical geography given by Immanuel Kant at the University of Königsberg in the summer semester of 1775 (f. 7r). This manuscript is not the basis of any of the multiple published versions of these lectures. The notes consist of 127 consecutively numbered sections, and are divided broadly into the prolegomena (f. 8r) and the treatise (tractatio, f. 32r). The latter is in turn divided into section 1 (f. 32) and section 2 (f. 185v). Section 1 is subdivided into 5 articles with the following titles: 1. Vom Wasser (f. 32v); 2. Vom Lande (f. 72v); 3. Vom Luftkreise (f. 136r); 4. Von der Geogonie, oder von der allgemeinen Geschichte der Erde (f. 158r); and 5. Von der Schiffarth (f. 178r). Section 2 is subdivided into an introductory paragraph (f. 184v) and 5 articles with the following titles: 1. Von den Menschen (f. 184v); 2. Von den Thieren (f. 200v); 3. Von den Pflanzen (f. 229v); 4. Von den Mineralien (f. 237r); and 5. Von dem Nationalcharakter, Sitten u. Gebräuchen verschiedener Völker (f. 246r). The lecture notes are bound together with the printed brochure announcing those same lectures of Kant, including his essay "On the different races of humankind." The brochure was published in Königsberg by G. L. Hartung (publishing date is not given but is presumed to be 1775).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for codex from title page of predominant work (f. 7r).
   

Extent

284 leaves : 192 x 167 ( 160 x 115) mm. bound to 200 x 175 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 272 + xi. First work: contemporary pagination in print, upper outer corners, 3-12. Second work: contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners, 2-530. Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords on both recto and verso of every page of text in both works (in work 1 in print; in work 2 in ink).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half calf (Zacour-Hirsch). Upper cover and spine detached from text block. First several quires detached and others are nearly detached.

Layout

Written in 19-23 long lines.

Decoration

Work 1 contains as part of the printed brochure 2 decorative engravings (bird bath, p. 1; two naked children under a tree, p. 2); work 2 contains 3 hand-drawn diagrams (in the margins of ff. 27r, 27v, and 28v) illustrating aspects of the earth.

Script

Written in a German cursive hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Wilhelm Voss of Hamburg-Altona: "Ex libris Wilhelm Voss Hamburg-Altona" (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by F. Dorling (Hamburg, Germany), 1954.
   

Subjects topical

• Physical geography
• Race--History--Sources

Genres

• Codices
• Brochures
• Essays
• Lecture notes
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 27r — Diagram, f. 27r
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 28v — Diagram, f. 28v