Institutiones philosophicae

(Philosophy. Manuscript.) FLAGEOLET (Professor)

Institutiones philosophicae

ad usum philosophia seminarii atrrebatensin [i.e. Arras] alumnorum accomodatae dictataeque a reverendo Domino flageolet in hac domo professore... [Amable-Jacques-Célestin] Fourdinier.

Description: manuscript in ink on paper pp. 283, xv (Index), [14, including 2 blanks, and some leaves written on recto only], [ii], 189, [13], 4to, contemporary calf backed boards, spine with a gilt fleuron in 4 compartment,1 further compartment with terracotta lettering piece, paper label removed from foot of spine along with some of the gilt of the fleuron, a little rubbed, stamp of seminary on title

Publication Details: [Arras: 1808-09]

Notes: Fourdinier, 1788-1845, entered the seminary in Arras in 1807, or before. He went on to have a distinguished career, ending as Supérieur de la Congrégation et du Séminaire du Saint-Esprit, Protonotiare apostolique.The text is entirely in Latin, except for an appendix (not so called) in French: Quelques reflexions sur l'ame des Bêtes, with examples ancient to modern, via Aquinas; the moderns include Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. The beginning of the second part is dated by Fourdinier February 9, 1809.The boards are covered in paper which was used as a manuscript, now decoratively speckled...moreFourdinier, 1788-1845, entered the seminary in Arras in 1807, or before. He went on to have a distinguished career, ending as Supérieur de la Congrégation et du Séminaire du Saint-Esprit, Protonotiare apostolique.The text is entirely in Latin, except for an appendix (not so called) in French: Quelques reflexions sur l'ame des Bêtes, with examples ancient to modern, via Aquinas; the moderns include Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. The beginning of the second part is dated by Fourdinier February 9, 1809.The boards are covered in paper which was used as a manuscript, now decoratively speckled (and illegible). HIDE

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Published Date: 1808-09]

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