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Auction archive: Lot number 11

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ‘Philosophia mentis et sensuu[m] s[ecun]d...

Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$632 - US$1,011
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$1,264
Auction archive: Lot number 11

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ‘Philosophia mentis et sensuu[m] s[ecun]d...

Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$632 - US$1,011
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$1,264
Beschreibung:

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. ‘Philosophia mentis et sensuu[m] s[ecun]dum utramque methodum pertractata; scholastice scilicet et experimentaliter’, manuscript treatise, [?Italy], 1761. The first 57 pages focusing on logic and ontology, the following 234 pages dedicated to critical introduction to philosophy, scattered illustrative diagrams including one showing the Porphyrian tree on a fold-out. In Latin, c. 294 pages, 205 x 150mm (damp staining to the final third of the manuscript). Contemporary card.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. ‘Philosophia mentis et sensuu[m] s[ecun]dum utramque methodum pertractata; scholastice scilicet et experimentaliter’, manuscript treatise, [?Italy], 1761. The first 57 pages focusing on logic and ontology, the following 234 pages dedicated to critical introduction to philosophy, scattered illustrative diagrams including one showing the Porphyrian tree on a fold-out. In Latin, c. 294 pages, 205 x 150mm (damp staining to the final third of the manuscript). Contemporary card. The author of the present text may have taken inspiration from Philosophia mentis et sensuum (1696), a printed edition of a lecture series dedicated to Aristotelian philosophy and experimentalism by the Jesuit Giovanni Battista Tolomei (1653-1726).

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
26 Apr 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. ‘Philosophia mentis et sensuu[m] s[ecun]dum utramque methodum pertractata; scholastice scilicet et experimentaliter’, manuscript treatise, [?Italy], 1761. The first 57 pages focusing on logic and ontology, the following 234 pages dedicated to critical introduction to philosophy, scattered illustrative diagrams including one showing the Porphyrian tree on a fold-out. In Latin, c. 294 pages, 205 x 150mm (damp staining to the final third of the manuscript). Contemporary card.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. ‘Philosophia mentis et sensuu[m] s[ecun]dum utramque methodum pertractata; scholastice scilicet et experimentaliter’, manuscript treatise, [?Italy], 1761. The first 57 pages focusing on logic and ontology, the following 234 pages dedicated to critical introduction to philosophy, scattered illustrative diagrams including one showing the Porphyrian tree on a fold-out. In Latin, c. 294 pages, 205 x 150mm (damp staining to the final third of the manuscript). Contemporary card. The author of the present text may have taken inspiration from Philosophia mentis et sensuum (1696), a printed edition of a lecture series dedicated to Aristotelian philosophy and experimentalism by the Jesuit Giovanni Battista Tolomei (1653-1726).

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
26 Apr 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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