Institutiones metaphysicae : quas Antonius Kreil in regia scientiarum universitate Pestana logices, et metaphysices professor publicus ordinarius auditoribus suis III philosophiae anno praelegit.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kreil, Anton.

Contributor:

Lippai, Josephi, former owner.

Orban, Ludovici, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Philosophy--Study and teaching.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lecture notes

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Josephi Lippai (signature, p. ii); P. Ludovici Orbàn (signature, p. iii).

Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Warboys, England), 2000.

Physical Description:

216 leaves : paper ; 203 x 168 (186 x 170) mm bound to 210 x 183 mm

Production:

[Pest], 1789.

Language Note:

Latin.

Biography/History:

According to bookseller, Kreil was born in Bavaria, lectured in Vienna and from 1784 at Pest. In 1790 he was examined for his Kantian and atheistic beliefs and in 1795 was made to retire for his Jacobite beliefs. He died in 1833.

Summary:

Copy of lecture notes from course in Philosophy at the University of Pest given by Antonius Kreil.

Contents:

Cosmologia.

Theologia naturalis.

Philosophia practica universalis.

Philosophia practica pars ii. Jus naturae.

Philosophia practica pars iii Ethica.

Philosophia practica pars iv Ascetica.

Indices.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. iii).

Pagination: Paper, 216; [iv], 1-412, [xvi]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Contemporary half sheep.

Origin: Written in Pest, 1789 (p. iii).

Table of contents lists contents for this volume, designated II Tomo (p. iv). Below this is a listing of contents for a Tomo I, not part of this volume, and without page numbers, perhaps it was not completed.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 820

OCLC:

187968770