Lot 414
Aristotle, Spanish manuscript
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
£408
Description
Philosophiae totius juxta mentem Aristotelis institutio, Latin manuscript, c.1670, c.657pp., 8vo, diagrams in the text, contemporary vellum, worming largely in inner margin, occasionally affecting text, occasional minor spotting, small stain to title, binding slightly wormed, spine torn, hinges broken
Footnote
Note: Dated to c. 1670 on the basis of the predictions of future eclipses on pp.82-85. The work is most probably notes from lectures at a Jesuit college in Spain. On page 20 Riccioli's confutation of Copernicus is put down as "verum".
Provenance:Purchased at Venice in 1888, manuscript note; D. J. Arkell, 1922, inscription.