Details

Subjects:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.
Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
Chemistry.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Excerpts, notes, or lecture notes on philosophical subjects written in a blank book, the first section has no heading but appears to be alchemical.

Contents:

1. f.1r-16r: Chimia.
2. f.17r-41r: Logica, sive ars cogitandi [excerpts] / Antoine Arnauld.
3. f.42r-64r: Metaphysicae compendium.
4. f.65r: Compendium aethices.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Attribution or ownership and date on final leaf: George Barrett his Book: 1680.
Incipit for first work: Chimia est ars corpora naturalia (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 120; [ii], [1-118] modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origin: Written in Great Britain in 1680 (note, inside upper cover).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by George Folliott (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Zamboni & Huntington (Palo Alto, Cali.), 1992.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 783

Contributor:

Folliott, George, former owner.

Contains:

Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694. Logique. Latin
Chimia est ars corpora naturalia.
Metaphysicae compendium.
Compendium aethices.

OCLC:

212376681