Details

Subjects:

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Political science -- Philosophy -- 18th century.
Philosophy, French -- 18th century.
Philosophy, French.
Political science -- Philosophy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

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.
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.
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).
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Possibly written in Switzerland (signed "Abaris, Suisse, du lac de Constance" f. 33r), in the early years of the French Revolution.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 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), pp. 74-75 (Ms. French 95).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 971

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155925693