Western Manuscripts in Latin, Three Volumes (1643-1769):

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Western Manuscripts in Latin, Three Volumes (1643-1769):
Tractatus Theologicus de Uno et Trino, [and] Tractatus Moralis de Matrimonio, octavo, continental manuscript on paper in Latin, dated 1684, in brown ink throughout, signed and dated by the Ludovicus Mondran, approximately 475 pages, bound in contemporary parchment; large section of spine missing, library stamps of the Suplician Seminary Library in Washington D.C. on title and inside front board, old bookplate removed, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Prolegomena de Philosophia, octavo, continental manuscript in Latin, dated 1769, with contemporary inscriptions on pastedown and ffeps, including that of Joannes Czinna in the colophon, and Stephanus Thaly and Joannes ?Kemenckzy in the preliminaries, unpaginated, ruled in pencil throughout, neat hand in brown ink, bound in contemporary mottled sheepskin, spine tooled in gilt, rubbed, stain on ffep, some thumbing, 7 x 4 3/4 in. Seemingly unpublished text which may have ties to Hungary, based on the orthography of the names in the front, includes a chapter entitled, "Elementa Psychologiae Prolegomena," and others on cosmology, practical philosophy, logic, and ontology.
Prooemium in Libros Ethicorum, Rome: Lodovico Grignani, 1643, octavo, unusual continental text manuscript in Latin which begins with an engraved title page border printed with the inner compartment blank, presumably sold and packaged as a pre-bound blank book, 123 inscribed leaves, including some blanks between sections, text in a brown ink, bound in contemporary limp goatskin parchment, small break in the covering material with slight loss, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. The section starting on page ninety-three and continuing to the end, at page 123, is about meteors and comets. (3)

[with] Humphreys, Henry Noel (1810-1879) manuscript with illuminated initials, folio, seven leaves, with four small original illustrations, including a small painting of a saint writing in a book, two line-fill illuminations, and a colored letter with knotwork, the illustrations on separate sheets of paper, tipped in, disbound, in a folder, 8 x 12 1/4 in.
Estimate $600-800


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