Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 109

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(MANUSCRIPT.) Logica. manuscript in latin on paper, written in cursive script with headings and keywords in italic, in somewhat faded brown ink. extra-illustrated with 4 contemporary engraved plates (empty architectural border, portrait of Aristotle, tree of knowledge, and table of equivalence and opposition). 222, [2] pages, followed by 14 blank leaves. 160x109 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, top of spine chipped, corners of front cover worn through; intermittent dampstaining in lower outer corners. 19th-century bookplate and partly defaced booklabels of the Abbé Joseph Mathurin; late 19th-/early 20th-century ownership inscription of Bertrand, "Ancien chef de Bataillon, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, etc.," on page 222. [France?], later 17th century

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The first 56 pages contain a general introduction to philosophy; the remainder of the manuscript deals with logic, with an index at the end.