On this page you can learn about the various manuscripts in the western post-1500 collection relating to philosophy. You may also be interested in the Philosophy section of our western medieval manuscripts collection.
MS 148
MS 148, completed in 1590, is a commentary on Aristotle’s Organon. The author was a Jesuit named ‘Joannes Baptista’, possibly from the Jesuit College in Cordoba.
MS 170
MS 170 is a commentary on Aristotle’s Organon produced in Germany in 1614. It was started by a Jesuit named Adolphus Lennep, and continued by a man named Johannes Christmann Huber.
MS 291
MS 291 constitutes four 18th century exercise books containing notes for lectures on ethics by William Derham (1702-1757, President of St John’s).