Coroller, Jacques Robert Corentin

Institutiones philosophiae ... Audiente Joanne Francisco Gillet. Titles within decorated pen-drawn borders. Illustrated with pen-drawn diagrams, figures, etc., and small vignettes and tail-pieces. Vol. I. Prolegomena philosophiae. Logica. 1757 (353 pp. + 2 bl. ll.); II. Metaphysica. 1757 (501 pp. + 1 bl. l.); III. Philosophia moralis. 1757 (481 pp. + 4 bl. ll.); IV. Physica generalis. 1758 (720 pp.); V. Physica specialis. 1758 (577 pp. + 12 ll. (last 3 bl.)). At the end of the text of Vol. V. (p. 577) is an inscription by Gillet. 'Finis totius philosophiae die 29a jullii [sic] anno Domini 1758, sub illustrissimo Domino proffessore [sic] regio jacobo roberto correntino Corroller sacrae facultatis parisiensis bacalaurio theologo, ex urbe episcopali Quimper Correntin, in brittannia [sic] minori. Has lectiones philosophicas audivit joannes franciscus Gillet Lugdunensis in scholis academicis seminarii sancti iraenei [sic]. Lugdunensis a lu[per] calibus anni millesimi septingentesimi quinquagesimi sexti ad inducias usque academicas anni millesimi septingentesimi quinquagesimi octavi'. After 7 ll. of diagrams, etc., he adds: 'Il manqueroit quelque chose à ce cours de philosophie si je n'y adjoutois la chanson que j'ai faite sur ma sortie du Séminaire'. This is followed by 70 lines of verse. Produced in Lyons.

1756-1758

5 volumes 5 vols. 4to. 211/2 x 161/2 cm. Original calf gilt bindings.

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).