Morgan, William (1623-1689)

Philosophia acroamatica sive disputatio in octo libros Aristotelis de physico auditu. Disputationes in duos libros de generatione et interitu: in tres libros. Aristotelis de anima: in libros Aristotelis de mundo et caelo: in Metaphysicam ... [Tractatus]: traditi per Rad. D. D. R[obertum] Pugh, Philosophiae Professoris, per me Edwardum Golding scripti. Illustrated with a few pen-drawn diagrams, and ornamented with 8 neatly drawn vignettes. Signature of 'William Bonsall 1800' on the verso of the last leaf of text. Produced in London?

1677

1 volume 394 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 22 × 17 cm. Original calf-gilt binding.

Purchased at Sotheby's 15/6/1908, Lot 25.

For William Morgan S.J., see the Dictionary of National Biography where there is also a notice of Robert Pugh [1609-1679]. Pugh is also entered in Gillow's 'Biographical dictionary of English Catholics', 1903, Vol. V.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

On the last leaf of the text the scribe states that these lectures were given 'In Ursa'. This may be the famous 'Bear' Inn, mentioned several times in Pepys' Diary, which Sir Walter Besant in 'Old and new London', Vol. VI, p. 12, states 'was for several centuries, one of the most popular of London Taverns'. It was situated at the Southwark end of London Bridge, known as 'Bridge-foot', and was demolished in 1761.

Phillipps MS. No. 20856.