Quaedam Theses extractae potissimii ex Enchiridio Metaphisico ca. 1718

Small paper notebook with a handwritten copy of a Latin text titled “Quaedam Theses extractae potissimii ex Enchiridio Metaphisico” attributed to John Clark and J. Remington and copied by a Harvard student, likely Richard Dana (Harvard AB 1718). The text is a précis of sections of Jean Le Clerc's "Ontologia et Pneumatologia" prepared by Harvard Tutor Jonathan Remington (Harvard AB 1696). The paper cover is inscribed “Carpenter” and the first page includes the inscriptions “Rosewell Saltonstall,” “Ezra Carpenter,” and "R. Dana” indicating the book was once owned by Harvard students Richard Dana (Harvard AB 1718), Roswell Saltonstall (Harvard AB 1720), and Ezra Carpenter (Harvard AB 1720).

The text is comprised of twelve chapters: Caput I. De Natura & usu Metaphisicae-- Cap. II. De Naturâ & Divisione Entis-- Cap. III. De uno Bono & vero-- Cap. IV. De Multiplicitate, Compositione, Distinctione & Ordine-- Cap. 5. De Essentiâ & Existentiâ-- Cap. 6. De Duratione-- Cap. 7. De Supposito & Persona-- Cap. 8. De Necessario & Contingenti-- Cap. 9. De Possibili & Impossibili-- Cap. 10. De Potentia & Actu-- Cap. 11. De Perfecto & Imperfecto-- Cap. 12. De Finito & Infinito.

domini Joannis Clark p. J. Remington:

Received in the Harvard University Library in 1947 from the American Antiquarian Society. Includes an enlarged photocopy of the notebook.

Jonathan Remington (1677-1745), a Harvard tutor and later a judge, was born on July 27, 1677 in Cambridge, Mass. He received an AB from Harvard in 1696 and an AM in 1699. In 1703, Harvard selected Remington as a tutor and Fellow of the College and he served there until 1711 when he began to practice law. Remington was first appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1715, and in 1725, was appointed a Middlesex Probate Court judge. Remington died on September 30, 1745.