Details

Subjects:

Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- France -- Lyon -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Philosophy -- Study and teaching.
France -- Lyon.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Broadsides (notices)
Diagrams.
Drawings (visual works)
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Scribal copy of lecture notes for course of studies in philosophy at the Seminary of St. Irenaeus, Lyons, probably owned by Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.

Contents:

Vol. 1: 1. p.1-68: Institutiones p[hiloso]phicae, proemium.
2. p.69-198: Logica.
3. p.199-530: Metaphysica.
4. Index.
Vol. 2: 1. p.1-321: Ethica seu moralis, index.
2. p.1-110: De psicologia seu de anima humana, index.
Vol. 3: 1. p.1-635: Physica, index, plates.
Vol. 4: 1. p.1-652: Physicae seu physica specialis, index, plates.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption heading (V. 1, p. 1).
Dates and place are on seven printed broadsides folded and bound in at the conclusion of each course of study: Vol. 1, at p. 68, 198, and 530, dated 1762-1763; Vol. 2, at [328] and after 110 (second series), 1763; Vol. 3, at 636, 1764; Vol. 4, at 652, 1764.
Pagination: Vol. 1, Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 272 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-68, [ii], 69-198, [ii], 199-530, [x]; Vol. 2, Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 224 + i (contemporary paper); 1-322, [viii], 1-110, [viii]; Vol. 3, Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 332 + i (contemporary paper); 1-635 [xxxi]; Vol. 4, Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 344 + i (contemporary paper); 1-652, [xiv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Vol. 3, 87 pen and ink wash diagrams, a few with added color, plus 7 pen and ink plates of geometrical figures and mechanical devices. Vol. 4, 6 pen and ink plates illustrating cosmography.
Binding: Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spines, with title 'Cursus Philoso.' on each volume.
Origin: Written in Lyons[?], 1762-1764.

Penn Provenance:

Owned by Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, whose name appears on the second broadside in Vol. 1; De Jussieu family library 1997 (printed label).
Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Warboys, England), 2000.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 816

Contributor:

Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de, 1748-1836, former owner.

OCLC:

187955735