Physica incipientium, siue principia Cartesiana tyronum captui accommodata. [In manuscript].
Sir Pury Cust (1655-1698/9)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3022938
Summary
Bibliographic description
[139] leaves. . 8vo. Probably a transcription of a standard Cambridge University text, so not in the hand of Pury Cust. Written on rectos only (versos blank). Text ends: "Primorum & universalium philosophiæ institutorum finis" [this perhaps in Pury Cust's hand]. Manuscript notebook. Inscription on fore-edge: Noli me [...]. Provenance: Inscription on verso of final leaf: Ex libris Pury Cust Collegii Emmanuelis alumni [i.e. Sir Pury Cust, 1655-1698/99]. Binding: Calf (seventeenth-century), ruled.
Makers and roles
Sir Pury Cust (1655-1698/9) René Descartes (1596-1650)