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Logic : Metaphysics.

Author/Creator:
Laird, G.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
2 volumes (194, 209 leaves) : paper ; 162 x 94 mm bound to 168 x 108 mm
Production:
[United States], 1793.
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Subjects:
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, American.
Language:
English, with occasional quotations in Latin and a few words in Greek.
Summary:
Two volumes of philosophy lecture notes, citing classical authors, the Bible, and early modern philosophers such as René Descartes and John Locke, probably copied from a printed source in 1793. The first, completed 19 June 1793, has the caption title Logic Vol. 3d and contains lectures 71-121, and although the contents do refer to logic, they focus more on moral philosophy. The second, begun 19 June 1793, has the running title Metaphysics over its first five lectures and contains lectures 1-56.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from caption titles (Volume 1, f. 1r; Volume 2, f. 1r) and running title (Volume 2, f. 1v-15v).
Collation: Volume 1: Paper, fol. i + 192 + i; 1-24⁸; f. 1v-9r paginated 2-17; gatherings signed A-X in ink, lower center of first recto. Volume 2: Paper, fol. i + 207 + i; 1⁸ 2⁸(-5) 3-26⁸; f. 1r-15v paginated 1-30; gatherings signed 1-26 in ink, upper left corner of first recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script, probably by G. Laird.
Binding: Late 18th- or early 19th-century calf, with upper covers detached; marbled endpapers; first volume has leather spine labels, Logic, Vol. 3.
Origin: Written in the United States in 1793; note at end of first volume, "Finis. Washington's villa, June 19th, 1793" (f. 191r).
Penn Provenance:
Possible signature of G. Laird (Volume 1, f. i recto).
Gift of Frederick Ehrenfeld, 1938.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1139.
OCLC:
213098407
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