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P[hilosop]hiae pars tertia seu ph[ys]ica.

Author/Creator:
Augustinianus, Peirussus.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
183 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 159 x 107 mm bound to 165 x 118 mm + 4 notes
Production:
[France?], 1709.
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Subjects:
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Solar system -- Early works to 1800.
Solar system.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Astronomical charts.
Diagrams.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Lecture notes on physics, including motion, temperature, the solar system, and the senses. Concludes with a brief section on ethics (pp. 347-365), followed by a table of contents (pp. ii-vii).
Contents:
Pages 1- 365: "[p. 1: text] Ab astrusis logicae, nec o metaphysicae desertis in amenum et floriferum ingredimur physicae campum ... [p. 365: text] obsecro per infinita saecula saeculorum, amen. [p. 365: rubr.] Finis totius physicae die quinta mensis iulii hora decima matutina 1709 sub reverendissimo patre Peirusso Augustiniano."
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title based on caption title (p. 1); lecturer and date from closing rubric (p. 365).
Pagination: Paper, 183 leaves; 1-199, 201-209, 220-256, 256-243, 245-365, [xii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Decoration: Pen and ink diagrams in text. Four folding cosmological charts demonstrating the evolution of theories of the solar system (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonian, "Novum et verum") were pasted to pp. 183, 184, 190, and 192. At some point they have been cut through or corroded at the foot of the page without loss. The detached charts have been removed from the codex, unfolded, and shelved separately with the codex.
Binding: Contemporary sheep, with remains of two leather ties (Gaskell).
Origin: Written probably in France (Gaskell) in 1709.
Penn Provenance:
Note on p. x following the text: Hic liber attinet ad me Petrum Deluer.
Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2005.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1016
OCLC:
155927541