Bardonnèche, Antoine Étienne de

Notes of lectures on Science, Chemistry, Theology, etc.: in Latin and French. Illustrated by rough pen-drawn diagrams, some coloured. Contents: (1) Continuation of a work on Statics (?): in Latin (pp. 1-26). (2) Élémens de chymie théorique (pp. 27-101). (3) De mechanica (pp. 102-165). (4) De la botanique (pp. 165-172). Pp. 173-182 are blank. (5) Colomb. Secundus physices particularis codex a domino Colomb philosophiae professor perito traditae Antonio Stephano Debardonneche, anno domini millesimo septingentesimo octogesimo primo [1781] (pp. 183-304). (6) Summa propositionum in phisica particulari probatarum. Songs in French, with music: notes on singing and dancing: Latin verses. By a different and somewhat later hand, found in MS. (1063), which is also one of de Bardonnèche's Notebooks (9 ll.). (7) Disputatio de religione revelata, etc. (57 ll.). The compiler has inscribed his name on a fly-leaf, and also on the verso of the last leaf 'Debardonneche philosophiae studens sub domino Colomb'. Produced in Geneva.

1781

1 volume 304 pp. + 9 ll. + 57 ll. 4to. 19 x 141/2 cm. Original boards, badly affected by damp, and wormed. Some margins frayed.

Purchased 1909.

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).