Tractatus de morali.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Petit, L. A., 18th century.

Contributor:

Collège de Saint-Vaast (Douai)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lecture notes

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Written by L. A. Petit (colophon, facing p. 340; LAP bookplate, inside front cover).

Sold by Symonds Rare Books (London), 2022.

Physical Description:

187 leaves : paper ; 190 x 150 (160 x 110) mm bound to 195 x 160 mm

Other Title:

Ethica

Philosophia moralis

Place of Publication:

[Douai, France], 1768

Language Note:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Student of the Collège de Saint-Vaast in Douai (S. Ved alumno, colophon, facing p. 340).

Summary:

Philosophy lecture notes with an index at the end of the volume (p. I-XII), and six engravings and a fragment of a printed academic notice bound in.

Contents:

1. p.1-4: Ethica seu Philosophia moralis [preface]

2. p.4-6: Ethica generalis, De moribus, seu actibus humanis universim spectatis

3. p.6-275: Ethica generalis, Pars prima

4. p.276-280: Ethica generalis, Pars secunda

5. p.281-340: Ethica particularis

6. p.I-XII: Index Philosophiae moralis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. v); alternate titles, Ethica seu Philosophia moralis, caption title (p. 1).

Pagination: Paper, 187 leaves; [i-vi], 1-100, [i-ii], 101-231, 234-276, [i-ii], 277-280, [i-ii], 281-340, [i-ii], I-XII, [xiii-xlii]; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. No loss of text between 231 and 234; the blank verso of 231 and blank recto of 234 have been pasted together. Too tightly bound to establish collation.

Layout: Written in 25-27 long lines; octavo format.

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: 6 engravings bound in (bust portrait of Saint Catherine (Chez Vallet, p. iv, front); ornamental title page (Crépy, p. v, front); side portrait of Cicero (Chez Crépy, facing p. 101); full-length portrait of Saint Catherine (Crépy, facing p. 276); side portrait of John Calvin (Chez Vallet, facing p. 281); ornamental title page (Crépy, facing p. 340)); vignette in ink (p. 340).

Binding: Full leather, rebacked; gilt spine with six compartments and spine title Tractatu de morali.

Origin: Written in Douai, France (location of Collège de Saint-Vaast (colophon facing p. 340) and of printer of 1768 academic notice bound in, p. xxxix-xl at end) in 1768 (title page, p. v, and date of academic notice).

Cited as:

L. A. Petit, Tractatus de morali (Ms. Codex 2143). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1402048641