Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Phisica

Authors

• Ricaud, Pierre
• Vaillé, Bernard

Other related names

• Baour, engraver
• Bonnart, Henri, 1642-1711, engraver
• Choueau, F, engraver

Call number

Ms. Codex 647
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487394
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487394

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1739

Place

Toulouse?

Summary

Lecture notes, divided in three sections, Phisica, Metaphisica, and Moralis, illustrated with 9 engraved plates. The professor, Pierre Ricaud, was possibly a member of the Société des sciences of Toulouse where two of the plates, engraved by Baour, were printed. The volume is a gift to his student Bernard Vaillé. The first section, titled Phisica particularis (p. 1) describes the earth, cosmography, the elements, and human physiology; the second section, metaphysics and theology; and the third section, ethics. Each section is preceded by a plate depicting an allegorical female figure, each ends with an index, and each is paginated separately.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page, engraved with a cartouche, in which the title has been written in manuscript.
   

Extent

153 leaves : 169 x 116 (136 x 90) mm. bound to 176 x 127 mm

Foliation

Paper, 153; [vi], 1-117, 117-118, 118-162, 183-230, [ii], 1-48, [ii], 1-24, [ii], contemporary pagination in ink, upper center; [vi], 1-300, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf, spine label INSTITV PHILOSO and PHISICA (added at a later date). Moderate oxidation of the ink.

Decoration

Five plates are signed Chez H. Bonnart au coq or H. Bonnart, ex au coq. avec privil. including the title page, a sphere, and 3 folded plates "Systema Ptolemaicum," "Systema Thiconicum," and "Systema Copernicanum." Frontispiece "La Phisyque" depicts Urania and is signed chez Baour as is the seventh plate (folded) "Phases Luna." The eighth plate depicts a seated female figure titled "La MetaPhisique," signed avec Pri. du Roy, and the ninth, a seated female figure titled "La Morale," is signed F. Choueau.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Roger Gaskell (London), 1998.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• 6 — Engraving, p. 6