Physica

Phisica particularis. Illustrated by carefully executed pen-drawn diagrams and figures, and by 14 decorated titles to sections, tail-pieces, etc. The MS. forms part of a course of lectures on the eight books of Aristotle's 'Physica', taken down by an unnamed student, probably at a Jesuit college in France. The date may be approximately fixed by the reference on fol. 181 to a work by Honoré Fabri, S.J. [1607-1688], entitled 'De homine': this was published at Paris in 1666. The MS. contains the lectures on 'De generatione et corruptione', 'De Anima', and 'De coelo et mundo'. The last treatise is unfinished. MS.3888 is another copy of the same text.

c. 1670

1 volume 1 l. + 274 ff. + 14 ll. 4to. 161/2 × 12 cm. Original vellum binding.

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).