John or Charles Towneley (alias Ashton).

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. A printed schedule of subjects in logic to be disputed by John Ashton, 1651, has been removed from the back of f. 47, and is now [pr. bk.] Vet. E1. a. 1 (3).

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).

Bought by the Library from Guntrips, 1960.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader’s card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

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.

Logic

Aquinas | Thomas | ? 1225-1274 | Saint

Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher

Towneley | Charles | fl 1651-1652

Towneley | John | fl 1651-1652

Douai college | France