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Discorso della filosofia / dell'ill[ustrissi]mo Sig[no]r Valletta.

Author/Creator:
Valletta, Giuseppe.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
117 leaves : paper ; 213 x 155 (187 x 115) mm bound to 220 x 165 mm
Production:
[Naples], 1700.
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Subjects:
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
"Testimonianza al mondo dell' empietà della filosofia artistotelica, e dell' innocenza di quest' altra, che chiaman moderna," (p. 3) dealing with classical, mediaeval and contemporary writers, mentioning frequently among many others, Descartes, Helmont, Kepler, Gassendi, Boyle, Galilei, Malebranche, etc.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page, (p. i), which may be in a later hand. Dated, Napoli, 3 Maggio 1700. Attribution to Giuseppe Valetta is from Zacour-Hirsch.
Incipit: Antichissimo costume fù B.P. (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, 117; [xx], 1-212, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Naples, 3 May 1700 (p. i).
See also UPenn Ms. Codex 591, 593, and 594.
Penn Provenance:
Accessioned, 1963.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 135 (Ms. Italian 210).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 435
OCLC:
155969199