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.

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.

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).