[Summula]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1640

Description:

Brief and probably partial treatise on logic, with sections devoted to simple terms, combination of terms, and argument (limited to syllogism).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Alex and Emily Fotheringham (Hexham, Great Britain), 2005.

Subject:

Logic -- Early works to 1800; Logic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

181 leaves : paper; 191 x 146 mm bound to 195 x 154 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied based on form of text (Fotheringham); date based on watermark.; Incipit: Logica est ars rationis seu potius habitus instrumentarius dirigans mentem nostram incognitione omnium intelligibilium ... (f. 1r).; Explicit: ...semper reducuntur per impossibilis et imperfecti omnes, quamvis non semper ad modum suae initiales (f. 85r).; Foliation: Paper, 181; [ii, 1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Watermark: Jug filled with floral forms crowned by a crescent; similar to Churchill, 466 and 471 (dated 1642).; Binding: Contemporary parchment.; Origin: Written in England in the 17th century (Fotheringham).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1041