Lesclache, Louis de (1620-1661)

Phylosophie françoise. Manuscrit du copiste et propriétaire du livre, Carolus de Calmels, presbyter et rector Sancti Amantii. The Logic is illustrated by a pen-drawn 'Arbor Porphyrii'. This is a MS. of the lectures of Lesclache on philosophy, including 'Physica', which contains unorthodox views on the devil, spirits, generation, physiology and other medical questions. The publication of his 'Philosophie' was forbidden. After Lesclache's text are two further pieces: (1) Pseudo-Pontius Pilatus. Epistola ad Tiberium (1 l.). (2) Laus verissima in Cardinalem Richelanensem ... et vera vituperatio (1 l.). Between fol. 183 and fol. 184 is an unfoliated leaf with the inscription: 'Ce livre appartien à son maitre n'est pas ni capuchin ny prêtre. En cas de perdition. Pierre barral et son nom. En. 1805'. Barral has signed his name in several places. On the verso of the same leaf is an inscription in pencil: 'Classe 1876 Jonquière Jean Jacques né à Toulouse l'an 1855, 28 du mois Novembre ouvrier ménuisier chez Monsieur Baillac ménuisier à Cotentin'. Produced in Saint Amand.

1654

1 volume 2 ll. + 263 ff. + 2 ll. 8vo. 161/2 x 11 cm. Modern paper covers. Ff. 1-108 follow fol. 263.

Purchased 1929.

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).