Details

Subjects:

Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, American.

Summary:

Works on logic and metaphysics in a numbered question and answer format.

Contents:

1. p.1-47: Logic.
2. p.1-61: Metaphysics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from the caption titles for the two works (work 1, p. 1; work 2, p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, 72; [xvi], 1-47, [v], 1-61, [xv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Work 1 written in 35-36 long lines; Work 2 written in 33-44 long lines; bounding lines ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in the cursive hand of John B. Cox (first work, p. 47; second work, p. 61).
Binding: Early 19th-century calf; upper cover and first two leaves detached. Lower cover nearly detached.
Origin: Written in Dauphin County, Penna., in 1798 (second work, p. 61).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Frederick Ehrenfeld, 1938.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1103.

OCLC:

190812448

Access Restriction:

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