Details

Subjects:

Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic.
Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Ontology -- Early works to 1800.
Ontology.
Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
Philosophy, Modern.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Canon of Blancy, in the diocese of Angoulême.

Summary:

A treatise on the elements of philosophy, beginning with its definition and derivation, and continuing to the principles of logic and reasoning, metaphysics and first principles, and ethics. The text is written with a view to the practices of René Descartes and Cartesian doubt.

Contents:

1. f.1r-15r: Prolegomena philosophiae / Guimberteau.
2. f.15r-69r: Logica / Guimberteau.
3. f.70r-175v: Methaphysica / Guimberteau.
4. f.176r-254r: Ethica seu moralis / Guimberteau.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and author from title page (f. i recto).
Incipit 1: Non immerito quidem inter antiquos aliquis contendit... (f. 1r); Explicit 1: ... exigere evidentiam objecti sed duntax at evidentiam testimonii (f. 15r).
Incipit 2: Logica si vim nominis spectes e[st]... (f. 15r); Explicit 2: ... qui eam quam iniit in inquirenda veritate methodum nitido et per utili sermone prosecutus est (f. 69r).
Incipit 3: Methaphisica duplex est, nempe generalis seu ontologia, et specialis seu pneumatologia (f. 70r); Explicit 3: ... edocta suspicetur parem se posse ex aliis bonis finitis voluntatem percipere (f. 175v).
Incipit 4: Moralis seu ethica est disciplina actuum humanorum directrix honestatem... (f. 176r); Explicit 4: ...reliqua ob angustias temporis omittuntur (f. 254r).
Collation: Paper, 255; 1⁸ 2⁷(+7) 3-32⁸; [i, 1-254]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Partial contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 32-37 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France, probably 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of George Boas, 1972.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement B. The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 7 (Ms. Latin 264).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1230.

OCLC:

233831492

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