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The Vatican manuscript of Spinoza's Ethica / by Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spruit, Leen, 1954-
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 205.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 11.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 205
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana--Manuscript--Vat. Lat. 12838.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de. Ethica.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Brill authors Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro discovered the original manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica" in the Vatican library. This spectacular discovery attracted a lot of media attention. NRC Handelsblad , 26th May 2011 Radio 1 News , 27th May 2011 NOS News , 27th May 2011 The Vatican codex, which contains the complete text of Spinoza’s Ethics , is the only surviving manuscript of this work and constitutes a document of great importance. On 23 September 1677, it was handed over to the Roman Holy Office by Spinoza’s former friend Niels Stensen who had converted to Catholicism in 1667. Thus, it predates the publication of the Opera Posthuma , which is dated 1677, but which did not in fact appear until the first months of 1678. Recent research and fresh documentation allow us to determine the several stages of the manuscript’s life before it reached Rome, where it was kept in the Archive of the Holy Office, and subsequently, transferred to the Vatican Apostolic Library, in 1922.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Printed Pages in Vat. Lat. 12838
- Niels Stensen’s Denunciation of Spinoza’s Philosophy to the Holy Office
- Fragment of Giovanni Cristoforo Battelli’s Censura of Christian Kortholt, De tribus impostoribus
- Bibliography
- Transcription Pars Prima de Deo
- Pars Secunda de Naturâ et Origine Mentis
- Pars Tertia de Origine et Naturâ Affectuum
- Pars Quarta de Servitute humanâ seu de affectuum viribus
- Pars Quinta de Potentiâ intellectus seu de libertate humanâ.
- Notes:
- Includes the text of Ethica.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Spinoza, Benedictus de. Ethica.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-51462-1
- 9786613827074
- 90-04-21057-1
- OCLC:
- 751697509
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004210578 DOI
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