F. Marini Mersenni Ordinis Minimorum S. Francisci de Paula Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim, cum accurata textus explicatione : in hoc volumine athei, et deistae impugnantur, & expugnantur, & Vulgata editio ab haereticorum calumnijs vindicatur. Graecorum, & Hebraeorum musica instauratur. Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata fusè refelluntur, quæ passim in illius problematibus habentur. Opus theologis, philosophis, medicis, iurisconsultis, mathematicis, musicis verò, & catoptricis praesertim utile. Cum indice quadruplici, videlicet locorum Scripturae Sacrae, quæ in toto libro explicantur, concionatorio, quaestionum, & rerum quæ passim agitantur
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Title: F. Marini Mersenni Ordinis Minimorum S. Francisci de Paula Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim, cum accurata textus explicatione : in hoc volumine athei, et deistae impugnantur, & expugnantur, & Vulgata editio ab haereticorum calumnijs vindicatur. Graecorum, & Hebraeorum musica instauratur. Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata fusè refelluntur, quæ passim in illius problematibus habentur. Opus theologis, philosophis, medicis, iurisconsultis, mathematicis, musicis verò, & catoptricis praesertim utile. Cum indice quadruplici, videlicet locorum Scripturae Sacrae, quæ in toto libro explicantur, concionatorio, quaestionum, & rerum quæ passim agitantur
Other titles: Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim; Observationes, et emendationes ad Francisci Georgii Veneti Problemata, in hoc opere cabala evertitur; F. Marini Mersenni Ordin. Minimor. S. Francisci de Paula Observationes, et emendationes ad Francisci Georgii Veneti Problemata, in hoc opere cabala evertitur
Classmark: All Souls Theology 5 MER
Creator(s): Mersenne, Marin (1588-1648)
Additional creator(s): Le Fèvre de La Boderie, Guy (1541-1598) (Other)
Related people: Giorgio, Francesco, 1460-1540
Publisher: Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy
Publication city: Lutetiae Parisiorum
Date(s): 1623
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 12 unnumbered pages, 1, 916 cols, 40 unnumbered pages, 450 (i.e. 440) cols
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/237049
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013063209705181
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Commentary on chapters 1-6 only. The 2nd part was never published; the ms. is preserved in the Bibliotheque nationale (Fonds latin nos. 17261-2). An earlier issue, of which only a few copies exist, contains on col. 669-676 a list of persons accused of atheism. The suppressed passage was reprinted in Chauffepié's Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique III (1753) p. 80-81. Cf. J. Vogt, Catalogus historico-criticus (4th ed., Hamburg, 1753, p. 461); B. Hauréau, Histoire littéraire du Maine, t. 8 (1876), p. 112-179.
Numbering of columns irregular, some leaves being numbered as pages; last column numbered 450 instead of 440. One unnumbered leaf "Errata potiora" of col. 1-1828, inserted after col. 1827-28.
The treatise on Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata has separate t.p. and pagination: F. Marini Mersenni Ordin. Minimor. S. Francisci de Paula Observationes, et emendationes ad Francisci Georgii Veneti Problemata, in hoc opere cabala evertitur.
"Quaestio LVI. Quaenam fuerint instrumenta harmonica, quibus tam Hebraei, quàm Graeci, caeteraeque nationes utuntur, aut etiam antiquitus utebantur": col. 1515-1530.
"Quaestio [LVII]. De vi musicae tum antiquorum, tum nostrae", col. 1530-1712 includes an account of the Académie de musique et de poésie founded by J.A. de Baïf and Thibault de Courville, and of the reforms in French poetry and orthography, advocated by Baïf.
"Paralipomena... ea, quae in quaestione de musica omissa sunt", col. 1853-1916 includes part of 4th "cercle" of La Galliade, a didactic poem by Guy Le Fevre de La Boderie, first published in Paris in 1578.
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