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Title

Theologia rationalis

Authors

• Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689

Call number

Ms. Codex 646
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487338
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487338

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with a few lines of Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1700

Summary

Treatise on the rational faculties vs. the brutal faculties in mankind, with references to Tully, "whose profundity of wisdome I cannot however but almost adore" (p. 21). Attributed to Thomas Sydenham, it was printed as an appendix to R.G. Latham's translation of Sydenham's Works in 1850.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page and caption title (p. 1). SYDINHA THEOLO is printed on spine.
   
• Incipit: The Question is, how far the Light of Nature, if closely adverted to, may be extended towards the making us good men (p. 1).
   

Extent

24 leaves : 198 x 157 (134 x 92) mm. bound to 206 x 161 mm

Foliation

Paper, iv + 18 + iv leaves; [vi], 1-24, [vi]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary gilt calf, spine cracked along upper cover.

Layout

Written in 34 long lines; frame-ruled in red ink.

Script

Written in a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Christopher Edwards, 1998.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Theology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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