Viane, François van (1615-1663)

Definitiones et epitomes librorum philosophicorum Aristotelis, etc. On fol. 65 is a pen-drawing of a young man. A collection of epitomes made by Gilles [Aegidius] Rigaulx, a student at Valkenberg, of lectures on Aristotelian philosophy. Contents: (1) Definitiones ex libris Physicorum. (ll. 1-42). Definitiones selectae ex tota Metaphysica. (ll. 43-57). (2) Sacro Bosco (J. de). Epitome of 'Sphaera'. (ll. 66-74). (3) Definitiones ex libris De coelo et mundo. (ll. 76-95). (4) Definitiones ex libris De generatione et corruptione. (ll. 96v-111) (5) Definitiones ex libris Meteorologica [Incomplete]. (ll. 112, 113). (6) Definitiones ex libris De anima [Incomplete]. (ll. 115-end). Produced in Valkenberg.

1644

1 volume 178 ll. (first bl.) 8vo. 151/2 x 10 cm. Original vellum binding.

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Purchased 1936.

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).