Typus necessitatis logicæ ad alias scientias capessendas : serenissimo illustrissimoque principi Henrico de Bourbon episcopo Metensi, S.R.I. principi / Frater Ioannes Cheron Carmelita Burdigalensis, D.D.D.
Language:
Latin
Creator:
Cheron, Jean
Call number:
Oversize Broadside 120
Extent:
[1] double sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (engraving) ; 74 x 47 cm. (plate mark 72.7 x 45.4 cm.)
Format:
Book
Description:
Sheet made up of two sheets pasted together at long edge. Image apparently printed from two plates, upper and lower, corresponding to the two sheets (cf. Divisio's gown and gate).
"The Typus was designed by Chéron for his Carmelite students in logic. This print was engraved by Gaultier and published by Messanger in 1622 in Paris. The broadside was printed in only one edition." - S. Berger.
"L.Gaultier incidit. 1622"
Among those depicted are St. Augustine, Duns Scotus, John Baconthorpe, Jean Cheron, and Michael of Bologna.
Imagery of this "Typus" closely resembles that of the Tabula Cebetis.
Artist information: Cheron also published Examen de la theologie mystique (Paris, 1657).
Dedication: The "typus" is dedicated to Prince Henry de Bourbon, Abbot of Saint-Germain de Pres, who is probably the same person as Henri de Bourbon, marquis of Verneuil, 1600-1682.
Susanna Berger, The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment (Princeton, 2017) Appendix 2, item 6 (p. 266 ff; transcription and translation)
For a similar "typus", see Stephen Ferguson "System and Schema" in PULC (Autumn, 1987).