Physica

Student's notes of Latin lectures on Aristotelian philosophy: containing the last three sections: Tractatus 4us physicus: De anima. Tractatus 5us: De metaphysica. Tractatus philosophicus ordine ultimus: De scientia morum [Ethica].

c. 1685

1 volume 3 bl. ll. + 309 pp. + 5 ll. (last 3 bl.). + 74 pp. + 6 bl. ll. + 3 ll. (last 2 bl.). + 130 pp. + 5 ll. (last 3 bl.). 4to. 18 × 13 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1935.

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).

A remark by the anonymous lecturer on p. 2 of the first section, says: 'Quia vero materiam illam [i.e. philosophy] accuratissime ... pertractasse mihi videtur Pater de la Chiaze in suo phisico cursu Lugdunensi'. This is clearly a reference to the 'Peripateticae quadruplis philosophiae placita' published at Lyons in 1661 by the famous Confessor to Louis XIV, François d'Aix de la Chaise [1623-1709]. The water-mark contains the name of 'S. Galardon' who according to Briquet p. 646 began to make paper in Provence in 1682.