Duhan, Laurent (1656?-1726)

Metaphisica et physica ... Audiente Joanne F[rancisco] Lestre artium magistro. Illustrated by a few rough pen-drawn diagrams and figures. There is an engraved historiated title-page, with centre panel containing the MS. title, an inserted engraved portrait of Pierre Gassendi [1592-1655], published by J. Jollain of Paris, facing fol. 79 of the second section, and another of Democritus Abderita [460-357 B.C.]. This MS. contains notes of lectures given at the Collège Duplessis in Paris and forms the third and fourth parts of the philosophy course. Produced in Paris.

1709, 1710

1 volume 130 pp. + 119 ff. + 213 ff. 4to. 22 x 161/2 cm. Original chamois binding. Fol. 212 is wanting.

Purchased 1935.

The author was professor of philosophy at the Collège for thirty years and died as a canon of Nancy Cathedral.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).