LECTURE NOTES IN CONSTITUENT PARTS

[Student lecture notes] [A nine-item collection of early modern lecture notes]. [Spanish Netherlands, c.1700].

The group appears written in seven hands. Besides valuable content (mostly rhetorical and literary - with one item, on biblical genealogy, illustrated) they are a good lesson in the use of the exercise books that were usually used to construct bound volumes of lecture notes. The individual booklet - itself a modifiable object (item three is an example of this) is found here in groups, unstitched, and stitched together, and by itself in wrappers and not. The collection came from the Spanish Netherlands. Item eight is a speech in praise of Spanish king Carlos II (1661-1700). Items one and nine are on paper with arms of regional paper-producer Amsterdam. Full physical descriptions are available.

1. Annotationes in Titum Livium, seu synopsis historiae Romanae.
2. Stemma Christi chronologicum dictum per annos progenitorum Christi vitae ius successorumque pontificum. Contains two small maps, one of Earthly Paradise, the other a map showing places of habitation of Christ’s ancestors.
3. Praecepta Tragedie.
4. Ad novas rhetoricae alumnos.
5. Periodus Monocolos. [Lessons in rhetoric].
6. Annotationes in P. Virgilium Maronem, in Eclogam primam
7. Annotationes in libros Tristium Ovidii cognomen Nasonis poetae eruditissimi.
8. Caroli Secundi Regis Catholici elogium.
9. Proprietates characterum.