Logica.
- Publication:
- [Caen, France], 1754-1755.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
149 leaves : paper ; 175 x 140 (145 x 105) mm bound to 180 x 150 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gt5fj21 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Lecture notes.
Diagrams.
Engravings (prints)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European. - Language:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Student lecture notes from a course on logic (as an introduction to philosophy) taught by the rector at the university of Caen, in northern France.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Collation: Paper, 149 leaves; 1² 2⁶ 3-4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6-9⁸ 10⁹(+7) 11-15⁸ 16⁹(+5) 17⁸ 18⁶ 19⁹(+6) 20²; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners, [i-iv], 1-140, [i-ii], 141-213, [i-ii], 214-230, [i-ii], 231-286, 289-290. Gatherings 2-10 signed a-i; gatherings 12-19 signed L-s, lower center first recto.
Layout: Margins pressed into each leaf
Script: Written in a cursive hand.
Decoration: 3 engraved images bound in: a title page border with praying figures in the lower margin, signed Crepy (f. 2r); a female figure, La Logique, also signed Crepy (between pages 140 and 141); and a diagram titled Tabula aequipollentiarum prae contra dic, signed Crepy rue St. Iacques (between pages 230 and 231); a crude drawing in pencil of a face (page 289); and an image cut from a printed book of a woman with a parasol standing below a palm tree, hand-colored and hand-titled La reine de turquie, pasted to the last page (page 290).
Binding: Full leather with gilt spine, spine title Logica.
Origin: Written in Caen (Cadomensis) in 1754 and 1755 (several dates have been changed from 1754 to 1755; f. 1r, 2r, image bound in after page 140, page 286). - Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Guy Langlois (France), 2015
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1802.
- Contributor:
- Université de Caen.
- OCLC:
- 965548338