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Title

Tractatus de morali.

Authors

• Petit, L. A., 18th century
• Collège de Saint-Vaast (Douai)

Call number

Ms. Codex 2143
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978094115903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1402048641

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1768

Place

Douai, France

Summary

Philosophy lecture notes with an index at the end of the volume (p. I-XII), and six engravings and a fragment of a printed academic notice bound in.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. v); alternate titles, Ethica seu Philosophia moralis, caption title (p. 1).
   
• 1. p.1-4: Ethica seu Philosophia moralis [preface] -- 2. p.4-6: Ethica generalis, De moribus, seu actibus humanis universim spectatis -- 3. p.6-275: Ethica generalis, Pars prima -- 4. p.276-280: Ethica generalis, Pars secunda -- 5. p.281-340: Ethica particularis -- 6. p.I-XII: Index Philosophiae moralis.
   

Extent

187 leaves : 190 x 150 (160 x 110) mm bound to 195 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, 187 leaves; [i-vi], 1-100, [i-ii], 101-231, 234-276, [i-ii], 277-280, [i-ii], 281-340, [i-ii], I-XII, [xiii-xlii]; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. No loss of text between 231 and 234; the blank verso of 231 and blank recto of 234 have been pasted together. Too tightly bound to establish collation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Full leather, rebacked; gilt spine with six compartments and spine title Tractatu de morali.

Layout

Written in 25-27 long lines; octavo format.

Decoration

6 engravings bound in (bust portrait of Saint Catherine (Chez Vallet, p. iv, front); ornamental title page (Crépy, p. v, front); side portrait of Cicero (Chez Crépy, facing p. 101); full-length portrait of Saint Catherine (Crépy, facing p. 276); side portrait of John Calvin (Chez Vallet, facing p. 281); ornamental title page (Crépy, facing p. 340)); vignette in ink (p. 340).

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Written by L. A. Petit (colophon, facing p. 340; LAP bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Sold by Symonds Rare Books (London), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• lecture notes
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Treatise
• 18th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Philosophy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — Ethica, seu Philosophia moralis
• 4 — Ethica generalis; De moribus, seu actibus humanis universim spectatis
• 6 — Ethica generalis, Pars prima: De actuum humanorum
• 276 — Ethica generalis, Pars secunda: De proprietatibus actuum humanorum
• 281 — Ethica particularis, seu De variis vitae humanae officiis
• I — Index Philosophiae moralis

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, LAP
• 340 — Vignette