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Introductio ad logicam : dialectica / data a R. R. Patre Lejuste Societatis Jesu Duaci in Collegio Aquicinetino et scripta a Joanne Baptista De Francqueville d'Abancourt Camerate.

Author/Creator:
Abancourt, Jean-Baptiste de Franqueville d', 18th century.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
102 leaves : paper ; 215 x 165 mm bound to 220 x 180 mm
Production:
[Douai], 1744.
Status/Location:
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Other Title:
Dialectica universa.
Subjects:
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy.
Philosophers -- Portraits.
Philosophers.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Diagrams.
Engravings (prints)
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Portraits.
Language:
Latin.
Biography/History:
The writer is possibly Jean-Baptiste Joseph de Franqueville, 1728-1803. The Franqueville d'Abancourt family was associated with both Cambrai (the likely explanation of the terms Camerate and Cameras on the title pages) and Douai.
Summary:
Lecture notes from the philosophy lectures of Père Lejuste at the Jesuit college in Douai, with an introduction attributed to 17th-century Douai professor Philippe Du Trieu and with 23 engraved plates of philosophers, saints, and logic diagrams bound in.
Contents:
1. f.5r-5v: Commentarius in dialecticam / Patris Dutrieu
2. f.6r-7r: Methodus inter argumentandum adhibenda
3. f.7v-12v: Tractatus praeliminaris
4. f.58r-95v: Tractatus secundus de iis quae ad secundam mentis operationem spectant
5. f.97r-99r: Tractatus tertius de iis quae ad tertiam mentis operationem spectant sive De argumentatione.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r, f. 3r); alternate title Dialectica universa from title page and explicit (f. 3r, 99r).
Foliation: Paper, 102; [1-102], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script by Jean-Baptiste de Franqueville d'Abancourt (f. 1r, 3r).
Decoration: 23 engraved plates, 15 by Jérôme Vallet (Saint Catherine of Alexandria, patron saint of philosophy, f. 2v; architectural title page border, f. 3r; Aristotle, f. 8r; Porphyry, f. 13r; Duns Scotus, f. 35r; diagram of the 5 universals, f. 39v; Adam, f. 46r; diagram of the Arbor Porphyriana, f. 49v; Socrates, f. 59r; Plato, f. 65v; Democritus, f. 72r; diagram of the square of opposition, f. 90v; diagram of Figura propositionum aequipollentium negativarum, f. 94r; diagram of syllogisms, f. 96v; Epicurus, f. 101r), 4 by Pierre Mariette le Jeune (Saint Augustine, f. 18v; Saint Jerome, f. 21v; Saint Gregory the Great, f. 26v; Saint Ambrose, f. 30r), one with imprint "rue S. Iacques à l'etoile" (Saint Thomas Aquinas, f. 4v), and 3 with imprint "Chez Crepy rue St. Iacques à St. Iacques" (Heraclitus, f. 71v; Diogenes, f. 81r; Erasmus, f. 100v). A few of the engraved portraits have additions to the faces in ink.
Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) calf with gilt spine and marbled endleaves; minor damage at head and tail of spine.
Origin: Written in Douai in 1744 (title pages, f. 1r, 3r).
Local notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Roger Gaskell (Crickhowell, Wales), 2015.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1693
Contributor:
Du Trieu, Philippe, 1580-1645.
Lejuste, Pater, 18th century.
Vallet, Jérôme, 1667-approximately 1720, engraver.
Mariette, Pierre, 1634-1716, engraver.
Université de Douai.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
OCLC:
934634896