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Material relating to the work of Prof. G.E. Moore and Dr. Ludwig Wittgenstein, including notes taken during their lectures and notes on Wittgenstein's 'Blue' and 'Brown' books.

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(1) Annotationes ex Toleto', beginning 'De scientiarum et artium divisione. Omnis scientia ab Aristotele 2 Meta. Cap. 1 in specuativam et practicam distinguitur'; Cardinal Tolet's commentaries on Aristotle's Logic were published in 1596; (2) 'Ex Keckermanno de voce', consisting of an abstract of the first 17 chapters of Keckermann's first book of 'Systema logicum' ('Opera', tom. i, pp. 553-625, 1614).

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Early notebooks, notes for Cook's lectures, and material relating to Theocritus.

Scope and Contents (1) ‘Commentarii in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis’ (302 leaves), beginning ‘Prætermittemus et excellentiam ...’; (2) ‘Commentarii in libros Aristotelis de cœlo’ (30 leaves); (3) Commentarii in duos libros de generatione et corruptione’ (35 leaves); (4) ‘Commentarii in libros de anima’ (90 leaves); ‘Commentarii in omnes libros metaphysicorum Aristotelis’ (37 leaves), ending ‘... ab ipso rerum authore abducamur. Cornelius Lery’. The tracts are separately paged. At the end of the volume is...

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'In secundum librum rhetoricæ Aristotelis commentariolus' by John Hardinge. Prefixed is a dedication by Hardinge, 'Patrono suo colendissimo dno dri Langton Coll. Magd. præsidi'; W. Langton was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1610 to 1626.

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'Commentaria excellentissimi D. D. Cæsaris Cremonini centensis, Patavii primo loco philosophiam profitentis, in secundo Aristotelis de Anima': commentary on Aristotle's 'De anima', book 2 according to the Latin division. See also MSS Dd.05.28 and Dd.12.16.

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Begins 'Physica incipientium. Sive principia Cartesiana Tyronum captui accommodata'. The work is in three books and appears not to be a work of Descartes but of Jonathan Comer. See also MS Dd.12.33.

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Contains 179 folios: a series of 32 philosophical disputations, nos 1-25 on the soul (fos 4-133) and nos 26-32 on Aristotle's Metaphysics (fos 134-167). On fos 169-173 is an analytical table of the series, imperfect at the end. Attached to fo. 178 is a broadside, Assertiones ex universa philosophia decerptae, by John Ducket (Lagos, 1655).

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mostly addressed to Dorothy Moore but including some to G. E. Moore, Timothy Moore and Perry Moore. Subjects include the education of Timothy and Nicholas Moore, and condolences on the death of G. E. Moore. 1. Charlie Dunbar Broad to Dorothy Moore; Cambridge, 25 October 1958.2. Thorold Francis Coade to Dorothy Moore; Blandford, 30 May 1935.3. William Burnlee Curry to Dorothy Moore; Dartington Hall, 20 March 1934.4. William Burnlee Curry to...

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Contains notes and extracts on philosophy, astronomy, natural history and medicine. fo. 2: 'Edmundus Lëus 1607'.

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There are prefixed a lithographed portrait of Swedenborg, and drawings in pencil of his abode near Stockholm, also his arms tricked in pencil.

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In Latin and Greek.

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MS.Add.8875 is comprised of Moore's philosophical papers, and now forms sections 10-16. It includes contemporary notes of Wittgenstein's lectures, the autographs of his 1899 London lectures, and papers for the Moral Sciences Club.

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MS.Add.8330 contains Moore's personal and family papers, and his correspondence (sections 1-9), as well as books from his library (section 17).

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Lectures on Greek philosophy delivered by Henry Jackson, Michaelmas term, 1873, 154 folios. The text is on the recto. On the verso are headings and references.

Scope and Contents 'A Course of Philosophical Lectures by Tho. Whiteside A.M', 183 folios. The lectures are on mechanics. No Thomas Whiteside appears among the published lists of graduates of any university in the British Isles. This is evidently a mistake for John Whiteside (i.e. Tho. for Jho), who was giving such lectures in the early 18th century (see R.T. Gunther, Early science in Oxford, Vol. I). On fo. 1: 'Jno. Browne'. On the front cover are the words 'Mr. Browne', and on the back cover what appears to...

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The lectures commence at the top of a page, with no title prefixed, and are evidently a portion of a larger work. They are on the 3rd book of Aristotle's treatise 'De anima', according to the Greek division, although the references in them are to the 'texts' of the Arabs and Latins. See MS Dd.09.19 for a commentary ascribed to the same author on 'De anima' book 2 according to the Latin division; see also MS Dd.12.16.

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'Meditations on the manner of living well and dying happily by Daniell Sennertus. Dr of phisick', 'Translated out of Latin into English by R. S.'

Scope and Contents (1) ‘Philosophia Universalis, vulgo Metaphisica a Magistro Hugone Smith dictatæ et a me Roberto Trott[ero' scriptæ].’ (2) 'Philosophia moralis vulgo Ethica, a Magistro Hugone Smith et a me Roberto Trottero diligenter conscriptæ.’ These works, begun Dec. 12, 1664, and ended June 15, 1665, are divided into books, and contain many disquisitions, De summo bono, De ente possibili et actuali, De signo et signato, De gaudio et tristitia, De lege positiva humanæ, De justitia, etc. (3) 'Summa...

Scope and Contents Contains: 198 folios: (fo. 4) notes taken from lectures on logic; (fo. 47) notes on Aristotle, De somno et vigile; (fo. 51) notes on Aristotle, De generatione et corruptione; (fo. 83) notes on Aristotle, De anima; (fo. 168) notes on metaphysics; (fo. 191) index. The notes are written neatly and clearly divided with numbered headings into treatises and sections. The writer was an Englishman, as appears from the dates, 'Aprill the 17th' and 'May 18' (fos 145v and 168 respectively). The lecture...

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(1) Caesar Cremonius, 'Introductio in logicam Aristotelis', beginning 'Dialecticam introductionem habituri …'; the author's name is mentioned at f. 117 b, and the date at the end, f. 140 b. (see also MSS Dd.05.28 and Dd.09.19); (2) ‘Petrus Pomponasius apud Contarenum de natura animæ humanæ’, beginning ‘Intelligere non est sine phantasia’.

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184 folios. Includes: (fo. 2) title page; (fo. 2v) rough notes; (fo. 3) notes by Richard Watson of lectures given by Gerras Holmes on natural philosophy; (fo. 66) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on optics; (fo. 134) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on hydrostatics; (fo. 180v) 'Lectures read by Mr. Holmes of Emanuel College in Cambridge', 'Cambridge 31' and scribblings; (fo. 184) 'twells Pigott Pigott Burslem Twells'.

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Draft of Samuel Butler's Unconscious Memory, 397 folios.

Scope and Contents A classics notebook compiled apparently by Richard Williamson, 231 folios. There are loose sheets in the volume from a printed work, one of which has the manuscript note 'Mr. E.R. Williamson. To the care of Revd. D. Williamson Deans Yard Westminster'. According to a list of contents and subject index on folios ii-iv, the book is divided into three sections, 'geography and places', 'philosophy and persons' and 'antiquities and things', which, however, are intermingled in the text. On fos...

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From the preface it appears that the text comprehends only the first part of the author's plan, namely, logic and moral philosophy.