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Title

La balance cosmopolitique du ciel de l'humanité à la Newton

Other related names

• Obereit, Jakob Hermann, 1725-1798, attributed name

Call number

Ms. Codex 971
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3605679
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3605679

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1788 and 1795

Place

Switzerland?

Summary

A dialogue between characters Abaris and Diogène about "spiritual Newtonism," in which the two characters discuss the relationship between natural principles and forms of government.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r); date based on the reference to Antoine de La Salle's La balance naturelle of 1788 (f. 32r) and Zacour-Hirsch's estimate that this work is from the early years of the French Revolution.
   

Extent

40 leaves : 215 x 170 mm. bound to 228 x 182 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 40 + i (modern paper); [i], 1, 1-2, 2-13, [i], 14-28, [i], 29-33, [i], contemporary foliation in ink, [1-40], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script possibly in the hand of Jakob Hermann Obereit. The hand of this work is the same as that of Ms. Codex 972, which is signed "Gamaliel," and "Abaris Gamaliel" is one of the pseudonyms of Obereit listed in Deutscher Gesamtkatalog (Zacour-Hirsch).

Provenance

• Purchased, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Political science--Philosophy--18th century
• Philosophy, French--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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