Physica

Phisica seu phisiologia universalem rerum doctrinam variis qua libris qua quaestionibus complectens. Quarta et ultima pars philosophiae: Metaphisica. An anonymous student's notes of lectures on Aristotelian philosophy. This MS. can be approximately dated by the passage on pp. 287/288:' ... ad Ludovicum usque decimum/quartum tunc temporis anno videlicet 1673 regnantem ...'

1673

1 volume pp. 3-771 + 17 bl. ll. 8vo. 15 × 11 cm. Original calf binding, worn, and the spine damaged. Title-page wanting.

Purchased 1910.

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).

Ex-libris of Robert Steele, who has written on the verso of the second fly-leaf 'Natural Philosophy, Physics and Metaphysics MS. 16th [crossed through and '17th' written over in green pencil] Salamanca'. Though this MS. may have been bought in Spain, evidence from the text, and the general style of these lectures, would seem to indicate a French Jesuit school of college as the place of origin.