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Title

Philosophiae codex

Authors

• Guimberteau

Call number

Ms. Codex 1230
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4350980
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4350980

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

17--

Place

France

Summary

A treatise on the elements of philosophy, beginning with its definition and derivation, and continuing to the principles of logic and reasoning, metaphysics and first principles, and ethics. The text is written with a view to the practices of René Descartes and Cartesian doubt.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from title page (f. i recto).
   
• Incipit 1: Non immerito quidem inter antiquos aliquis contendit... (f. 1r); Explicit 1: ... exigere evidentiam objecti sed duntax at evidentiam testimonii (f. 15r).
   
• Incipit 2: Logica si vim nominis spectes e[st]... (f. 15r); Explicit 2: ... qui eam quam iniit in inquirenda veritate methodum nitido et per utili sermone prosecutus est (f. 69r).
   
• Incipit 3: Methaphisica duplex est, nempe generalis seu ontologia, et specialis seu pneumatologia (f. 70r); Explicit 3: ... edocta suspicetur parem se posse ex aliis bonis finitis voluntatem percipere (f. 175v).
   
• Incipit 4: Moralis seu ethica est disciplina actuum humanorum directrix honestatem... (f. 176r); Explicit 4: ...reliqua ob angustias temporis omittuntur (f. 254r).
   

Extent

255 leaves : 211 x 165 mm. bound to 214 x 167 mm

Collation

Paper, 255; 1⁸ 2⁷(+7) 3-32⁸; [i, 1-254]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Partial contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 32-37 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Gift of George Boas, 1972.
   

Subjects topical

• Logic--Early works to 1800
• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Ontology--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Modern--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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