Notebooks compiled by John or Charles Towneley at Douai College, 1651-2, containing disputations and commentaries on Aristotle, with special reference to the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Dates
- Creation: 1651-1652
Extent
0.15 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
- Latin
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Lat. misc. f. 44, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Lat. misc. f. 44, f. 47-48
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 9057
Abstract
Notebooks compiled by John or Charles Towneley at Douai College, 1651-1652.
Biographical / Historical
John or Charles Towneley (alias Ashton).
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 48016-18.
Custodial History
Early shelfmarks inscribed on the first page of each volume '6½: 163'-165; Sotheby's 27 June 1883 (Towneley Hall sale), lot 1; (f. 44) owned by Capt. W. Jaggard; bought, Hodgson's, 22 Oct. 1948, part of lot 595; (f. 47-8).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought by the Library from Guntrips, 1960.
Separated Materials
A printed schedule of subjects in logic to be disputed by John Ashton, 1651, has been removed from the back of MS. Lat. misc. f. 47, and is now [pr. bk.] Vet. E1. a. 1 (3).
Topical
Subject
- Aquinas | Thomas | 1225-1274 | Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic Priest (Person)
- Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher (Person)
- Towneley | Charles | fl 1651-1652 (Person)
- Towneley | John | fl 1651-1652 (Person)
- Douai college | France (Organisation)
- Title
- Notebooks compiled by John or Charles Towneley at Douai College
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Susan Thomas; EAD version 2019 by Pauline Soum-Paris
- Date
- EAD version 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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