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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).

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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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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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...

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

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‘Corn. Lery quæstiones in Aristotelis Logicam et Ethicam’ (title written inside the cover in a later hand), beginning ‘Introductio ad logicam Aristotelis. Prœmium. Dignitas logicæ. Qui philosophica spatia ingreditur ...’. Two treatises bound together, but separately paged. Between ff. 12 and 13 is inserted a printed table of ‘Clara modorum imperfectionum trium figurarum reductio ad quatuor primæ perfectos’, Rhedonis, 1630. See MS Ii.04.07.

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This is apparently a thesis, a portion of a larger MS.

Scope and Contents (1) ‘Arnaldus de Nova Villa’, beginning ‘[M]ateria lapidis est res vilis pretii ubicunque reperitur que est aqua viscosa ...’; (2) ‘Declaratio lapidis philosophorum per Avicennam filio suo’, with a colophon supplying ‘Explicit archanum Avicenne de philosophorum lapide’; (3) anonymous text beginning ‘Hic incipit tractatus optimus in quo exponit et apte declarat Plinius philosophus quis sit lapis philosophicus’; (4) text ‘Per Albertum’, beginning ‘Aqua mercurius et oleum sulphuris’; (5) a...