A-332 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. Explicit: ‘Exprimentia consensum.’
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Confessionale.’ a2r Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[D]efecerunt scrutantes scrutinio”, psalmista lxiii [Ps 63,7]. Scrutinium quidem est confessio vel inquisitio in quo et penitens scrutatur conscientiam suam . . .’ See A-325. a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Summula confessionis.’ [Also known as Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio.] Incipit: ‘[N]otandum primo est quod non sacerdos . . .’ See A-325; also Orlandi 318 no. (A) 56. n5v Antoninus Florentinus ‘Libellus de restitutionibus.’ [Also known as Titulus de restitutionibus.] Incipit: ‘[D]e prima manu feneratoria potest intelligi illud quod habetur Apocalypsis, xvii, ‘0.6 mm“Uidi mulierem sedentem super bestiam coccineam” [Apc 17,3] . . .’ See A-325. t1r ‘Tabula materierum’.
Strasbourg: Martin Flach, 1496. 4°. a–r8 s t6. GW 2135;HC *1201;Goff A-829;BMC I 154;Pr 705;BSB-Ink A-589; Sack, Freiburg, 223; Sheppard 523.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco for the Bodleian Library. Size: 213 × 153 × 25 mm. Size of leaf: 202 × 138 mm. One six-line initial is supplied in red with reserved white decoration; with pen-work infill, and with pen-flourished extensions into the margins, all in black ink. Three- and four-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. Rubricator’s initials ‘F. E. H.’ on s6v. Provenance: ‘fr. Vitus’ on t6r. Benediktbeuren, Bavaria, Benedictines, SS. Benedictus et Jacobus; inscription on a2r. Purchased, for 6 Marks, from Caspar Haugg, Catalogue 78 (1885), no. 131; see Library Bills (1885), no. 381. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 6.42.
A-333 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. Explicit: ‘Exprimentia consensum.’
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Defecerunt.’ a2r Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio”, psalmista lxiii [Ps 63,7]. Scrutinium quidem est confessio vel inquisitio in quo et penitens scrutatur conscientiam suam . . .’ See A-325. a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Sumula confessionalis.’ [Also known as Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio.] Incipit: ‘[N]otandum primo est quod non sacerdos . . .’ See A-325; also Orlandi 318 no. (A) 57. o4v Antoninus Florentinus ‘Tractatus de restitutionibus’ [also known as Titulus de restitutionibus]. Incipit: ‘[D]e prima manu feneratoria potest intelligi illud quod habetur Apocalypsis, xvii, ‘0.6 mm“Uidi mulierem sedentem super bestiam cocineam” [Apc 17,3] . . .’ See A-325. v1r Antoninus Florentinus Conclusiones et decisiones in foro conscientiae. Incipit: ‘[R]euerende pater: post recommendationem in christo yesu domino nostro. Recepi litteras vestras a(!) diu cum pluribus inquisitionibus de diuersis materiis . . . Utrum scolaris extra suam diocesim constitutus tempore comunionis possit confiteri absolui . . . [R]espondendo ergo ordine retrogrado ad quesita vestra . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 83 no. 241. x8r [Table of contents.] y5v [Colophon.] y6r Antoninus Florentinus Versus decem praeceptorum. ‘Primum preceptum.’ ‘Qui colit extra deum, vel sanctos, quodque creatum &pipe; Articulos fidei negans, si spemque relinquit’; 12 lines of verse. The second and third ‘precepta’ consist of 10 lines, the fourth and fifth of 6 lines, the sixth of 16 lines, the seventh of 10 lines, the eighth of 9 lines, the ninth of 11 lines, and the tenth of 6 lines. y7v Antoninus Florentinus Versus septem peccatorum mortalium. ‘Superbia.’ ‘Ambit superbus, ridet, presumptio iudex. &pipe; Curius, ingratus, blanditur, scandala reddit’; 5 lines of verse. The second and third ‘peccata’ consist of 2 lines, the fourth, fifth, and sixth of 3 lines, the seventh of 7 lines.
Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis, 29 Nov. 1497. 8°. a–y8. GW 2136;HR 1203;Goff A-830;Oates 2130; Sack, Freiburg, 224; Sheppard 4452.
Copy Wanting gatherings v-y. The description of the missing leaves is based on the copy held in Cambridge. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf. Size: 165 × 110 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 158 × 102 mm. Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912). Purchased from James Tregaskis, Caxton Head Catalogue: Valuable Books, 890 (1924), no. 7, for £9. 15. 0; see BQR 4,44 (1924), 190. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. f. I4.1. SHELFMARK: Inc. f. I4.1497.1.
A-334 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio [Italian]. Explicit: ‘Defecerunt vulghare’.
[1r] [Title-page.] [1v] ‘Tabule.’ a1r Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[D]efecerunt scruptantes scruptinio”, ait psalmista lxiii [Ps 63,7]. Lo scruptinio el quale e la confessione in nella quale il penitente discute e ricercha la conscientia sua . . .’ See Bloomfield 1500. a1v Antoninus Florentinus Defecerunt vulghare [Italian]. [Also known as Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio.] Incipit: ‘Quanto al primo cioe della auctorita del confessore e da sapere che quegli che non sono sacerdoti non possono udire le confessioni . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 92-6 no. 256; Orlandi 319 no. (B) 1. x6r [Colophon.] [y1r] [Antoninus Florentinus] [On excommunication.] Incipit: ‘Scomunicationi che solo al papa s’apertiene labso. La prima se alcun bacte cherico o religioso uiolentemente . . .’ In other editions transmitted as the final section of the ‘Defecerunt.’
Florence: Francesco di Dino, [c.1492]. 4°. [*]4 a–u8 x6 [y]4.Leaf a1 not signed; a2-3 are signed ai–ii. GW 2141;HCR 1210;Goff A-835;BMC VI 634-5;Pr 6137;Sheppard 5094.
Copy Binding: Twentieth-century quarter brown russia over modern wooden boards, with clasps. Size: 218 × 138 × 41 mm. Size of leaf: 193 × 130 mm. On the recto of the back parchment endleaf, notes on baptisms of members of the Montauti family, from 1564 to 1569. On the verso is a circular floral drawing, in black ink, produced using a compass. Occasional marginal annotations. One- to three-line initials are supplied in blue. Provenance: Antonio Montauti, ‘Chericho di Sagrestia’, 1586; inscription on [y4v]. Ottavio Paolsanti (eighteenth century). Abbot Paolsanti. Giuseppe Maria Salvetti (†1739), from Abbot Paolsanti; inscription on [1r]: ‘Questo libro fu donato a me F. Giuseppe Maria Saluetti Servita, Sacerdote indegnissimo, e fiorentino dall’Illustrissimo Signor Abate [ ] Paolsanti, ed era d[e]ll’Illustrissimo Signor Ottauio suo fratello, e me lo diede per gratitudine per auer io assistito alla sua morte seguita adi [ ]’. Acrostic IMS/cross, AI and ‘3′ on the upper margin, in the same hand. Oval stamp, with shield showing two lions combatant, on [1r]. Inside the upper cover a circular engraving, sze16 mm diameter, of the head of a dog baillonné; also in A-334, C-147 and D-003; the arms of dell’Osso of Ravenna are a dog baillonné seated. Purchased from Francesco Perrella, Naples, 4 Oct. 1900 for 71.70 Lire; see Library Bills. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I9.1.
A-335 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio [Italian] Interrogatorio sopra le confessioni. Explicit: ‘Exprimentia consensum.’
a1r [Title and woodcut.] ‘Tractato uolgare di frate Antonio arciuescouo di Firenze intitolato Defecerunt, che insegna al confessore di che chasi et in che modo debbe domandare colui che egli confessa’. a2r Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“Defecerunt scruptantes scruptinio”, ait psalmista lxiii [Ps 63,7]. Lo scruptinio el quale e la confessione nella quale il penitente discute e ricerca la conscientia sua . . .’ See A-334. a2r Antoninus Florentinus Interrogatorio sopra le confessioni. ‘Tractato chiamato interroghatorio . . . sopra le confessioni’. Incipit: ‘Quanto al primo cioe della auctorita del confessore e da sapere che quegli che non sono sacerdoti non possono udire le confessioni . . .hai ueduto di sopra’ See A-334; also Orlandi 320 no. (B) 2. o8r [Colophon.] BMC VI 683 notes that ‘the colophon is printed in a peculiar shape, perhaps intended to represent an altar.’ *1r ‘Tauola.’
Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini, 22 Feb. 1496. 4°. a–o8 [*]2. Woodcut of S. Antoninus confessing a penitent on a1r; see BMC VI 683; on a2r a historiated woodcut initial ‘D’ with King David playing the harp; see BMC VI 680. GW 2142;HCR 1211;Goff A-836;BMC VI 683;Pr 6370;CIBN A-437; Kristeller no. 26; Sander 428; Sheppard 5246.
Copy Gathering [*] bound between a1 and a2. Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter red morocco for Boutourlin(?); marbled pastedowns. Size: 205 × 142 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 197 × 132 mm. Occasional marginal notes and pointing hands. Inscription on a1r recording the reception at Pomino of the news of the canonisation of Antoninus by Pope Adrian VI, on 1 June 1523: ‘A di primo di giugno 1523 circa a ore 2 di notte vene le nuoue della &pipe; canonizatione dell’arciuescouo antoigno fatto par adriano vi Po[n]t[ific]e M[a]s[simo]’. Verses on a1r: ‘Ante deum stantes non sitis corde vagantes &pipe; Si cor non orat, in uanum lingua laborat’, first line corresponds to Walther, Proverbia, 1120, the second does not. Provenance: Jacobo di Davide (fifteenth/sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘Di Ser Jacobo di dauitte da pomino’. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 558, deleted and replaced with 559 in pencil; see Catalogue (1831); sale (1841), lot 82. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.61.
A-336 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura [or] Specchio di coscienza. Explicit: ‘lo puo seguire.’
a1r Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[O]mnis mortalium cura, quam multiplicium studiorum labor exercet, diuerso quidem calle procedit . . .” [Boethius, Cons. Phil. III 2,2]; Dice sancto Seuerino nel libro della philosophica consolatione, che tutta la cura de mortali . . .’ See Bloomfield 3668. a2v Antoninus Florentinus ‘Spechio di conscientia.’ [Also known as Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura]. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanto alla prima dico che si uuole schifare il peccato . . . se non e dispensato dal papa et la donna se uuole lo puo seguire’ Incomplete at the end; see Kaeppeli I 96-8 no. 257; Orlandi 311 no. 13. r6v [List of contents.]
Florence: Don Ippolito, for Giovanni di Nato, 24 Feb. 1479/80. 8°. a–i l–r8.Leaf h5 signed hiiii. GW 2154;HCR 1224;Goff A-850;BMC VI 632;Pr 6133;CIBN A-444; Sheppard 5086.
Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian(?) parchment; gold-tooled spine. Size: 213 × 148 × 26 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 140 mm. Divisions into syntactic units marked in black ink. On a1r a five-line initial is supplied in blue, with red pen-flourishing into the margins. One two- and one three-line initials are supplied in red, each with foliate infill, and with pen-flourished extensions into the margins, all in black ink; the decoration of the three-line initial on a2v is lightly coloured in yellow. Capital strokes in yellow, occasionally in red. Provenance: Unidentified coat of arms, gules, in chief a duck [sable?]. Alessandro, Count Mortara (†1855); see Alessandro Mortara, Biblioteca Italica (1852), 6, where the book is described as a quarto. Purchased in 1852 from Count Mortara. SHELFMARK: Mortara 827.
A-337 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura [or] Specchio di coscienza. Explicit: ‘lo puo seguire’.
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Somma dello arciuescouo Antonino omnis mortalium cura’. a2r Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis mortalium cura, quam multiplicium studiorum labor exercet, diuerso quidem calle procedit . . . [Boethius, Cons. Phil., III,2,2]. Dice sancto Seuerino nel libro della philosophica consolatione, che tutta la cura et sollecitudine de mortali . . .’ See A-336. a3r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Specchio di conscientia.’ [Also known as Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura]. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanto alla prima dico che si uuole schifare . . .’ Incomplete at the end; See A-336; also Orlandi 311 no. 22.
[Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri], 1488. 4°. a–l8 m6. GW 2156;HCR 1226 = H 1233;Goff A-856;BMC VI 648;Pr 6333 = 6193;CIBN A-445; Sheppard 5128.
Copy Previously bound with a work of Fra Cherubino; see inscription, in a contemporary hand, on back parchment endleaf. Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter green morocco; bound for Boutourlin(?); one parchment endleaf. Size: 214 × 142 × 19 mm. Size of leaf: 206 × 132 mm. On recto of parchment endleaf, a drawing in black ink, of a monk; on verso, early notes about the contents of the book. Provenance: Albergotti family (eighteenth century). Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 396; see Catalogue (1831); sale (1841), lot 81. Purchased for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1842), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.60.
A-338 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura [or] Specchio di coscienza. Explicit: ‘lo puo seguire’.
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Somma dello arciuescouo Antonino omnis mortalim(!) cura’. a2r Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis mortalium cura, quam multiplicium studiorum labor exercet, diuerso quidem calle procedit . . . [Boethius, Cons. Phil., III,2,2]. Dice sancto Senerino(!) nel libro della philosophica consolatione, che tutta la cura e sollecitudine de mortali . . .’ See A-336. a3r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Specchio di conscientia’. [Also known as Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura]. Incipit: ‘Quanto alla prima dico che si uuole schifare el peccato . . .’ See A-336; also Orlandi 311 no. 23.
[Florence: Printer of Vergilius (C 6061), c.1490]. 4°.On the press see Ridolfi, Firenze, 95-111. GW assigns to the [Printer of Benignus, ‘Dialectica’] and Proctor doubtfully to [Bartolommeo Di Libri]. a–h I K8 l4. GW 2157;R 814;Goff A-858;Pr 6276;Ridolfi, Firenze, 106; Sheppard 5237.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards. Size: 209 × 138 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 125 mm. Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); purchased at his sale (1859), lot 119, for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 10. SHELFMARK: Mortara adds. 61.
A-339 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura [or] Specchio di coscienza.
[a1v] [Title.] Incipit: ‘Iesus Maria Dominicus incomenza uno confessionale uulgar del reuerendissimo padre beato fratre Antonino arziuescouo de Fiorenza . . .’ [a2r] Antoninus Florentinus [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis mortalium cura, quam multiplicium studiorum labor exercet, diuerso quidem calle procedit . . . [Boethius, Cons. Phil., III,2,2]. Dice sancto Seuerino in el libro de la philosophica consolatione, che tutta la cura e sollicitudine de li homini mortali . . . molto efficacemente’ See A-336. [a2v] Antoninus Florentinus ‘Spechio de conscientia.’ [Also known as Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura]. Incipit: ‘Quanto a la prima dico che se uole schiuare el peccato . . . a faza a faza l’altissimo dio uederai, qui benedictus est in secula amen’ See A-336; also Orlandi 310 no. 3. [h2r] Antoninus Florentinus Trattato dell’excomunicazione. ‘De excomunicatione’. Incipit: ‘[D]echiaratione de la excomunicatione menore et de lo participare cum excomunicati . . . loro solemni prouilegii’ See Kaeppeli I 96-8. [i4r] ‘Li dieci comandamenti.’ ‘Chi uita eterna uole aquistare &pipe; Li dieci comandamenti de dio debe obseruare &pipe; Lo primo uno dio adorando sempre amare’; 14 lines of mnemonic verse. [i4v] Thomas Aquinas [Oratio.] ‘Questa oratione compose sancto Thomaso de Aquino la quale diceua quando andaua a celebrare’ [Latin]. Incipit: ‘[O]mnipotens et misericors deus, ecce accedo ad sacramentum preciosissimi corporis et sanguinis unigeniti filii tui, domini nostri Jesu Christi . . .’ ed. Spiazzi (1954), II 275ff. [i4v] ‘Oratione che se fa dopo la comunione’ [Latin]. Incipit: ‘[S]it, Iesu dulcissime, sacratissimum corpus tuum et sanguis dulcedo et suauitas animae . . .’ [i5r] ‘Credo uulgar facto in rima.’ ‘[C]redo in un padre omnipotente dio &pipe; Del celo creatore e de la terra’; 7 tercets and 1 line. [i5r] [Verses to the reader.] ‘Ne te detineat saeui fera regia ditis &pipe; Haec lege quae facili sunt modo scripta manu’; 2 elegiac distichs. [i5v] ‘Rubrice’ [= List of contents.]
Bologna: [Balthasar Azoguidus], 1472. 4°. [a–h10 i8]. GW 2173;HR 1217;not in Pr;Quaquarelli, ‘Azzoguidi’, p. 62; Sheppard 5288.
Copy Wanting the blank leaves [i1] and [i7-8]. Leaf [a1] cut out, mounted, and bound in reverse; [a2] mounted. Binding: Parchment; marbled pastedowns. Size: 237 × 169 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 231 × 158 mm. Occasional early notes, pointing hands and ‘nota’ marks. Decoration on [a1v]: Eighteenth-century decoration; two frames, the outer one in black ink, the inner one in gold, forming a panel. In the panel, two floral decorations in gold, with plants in green and red. Decoration on [a2r]: Contemporary Bolognese decoration; border, edged in gold, with reserved white vine-stem scrolling, defined in yellow, on a background of red, blue, and green, with white dots in groups of three. Two gold-edged roundels, one contains a brown duck, with a blue wing, on a background of blue sky and green ground; the second contains, on the same background, the coat of arms described below. In the panel formed within the border is the text, beginning with a three-line initial ‘O’ in gold, over a red background, decorated delicately in white, and incorporated into the border; see Pächt and Alexander II, 113 no. pr. 123. Some two- and three-line initials, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Unidentified coat of arms on [a2r]: azure, a lion passant [argent?] in bend between two cotices gules, with a mitre above the shield. Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Earls of Leicester. Purchased in 1953. SHELFMARK: Holk. d.33.
A-340 Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura [or] Specchio di coscienza.
[a1r] Antoninus Florentinus [Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura]. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis mortalium cura, quarum multiplicium studiorum labor exercet diuerso . . . [Boethius, Cons. Phil., III,2,2]. Dice sancto Seuerino in el libro che fece della philosophica consolatione, che tuta la cura e solicitudine de li homini mortali . . .’ See A-336. [a1v] Antoninus Florentinus [Specchio di coscienza.] [Also known as Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura]. Incipit: ‘Quanto a la prima dico che se uole schiuare el peccato . . . a faza a faza l’altissimo dio uederai, qui benedictus est in secula amen’ See A-336; also Orlandi 310 no. 3. [f10r] [Antoninus Florentinus(?)] ‘De datii et gabelle’. Incipit: ‘Vtile et necessaria dechiaratione a cognoscere quando li datii iusttamente se pono exigere . . . et molti altri doctori’ [f10v] Antoninus Florentinus Trattato dell’excomunicazione. ‘Excomunicatione menore’. Incipit: ‘Per mazor noticia e da sapere . . . [L]a prima adonche excomunicatione e contra li heretici . . . loro solemni prouilegi’ See Kaeppeli I 96-8. [g7v] Thomas Aquinas [Oratio.] ‘Questa oratione compose sancto Thomaso de Aquino la quale se debe dire inanzi che se uada la persona a comunicare’ [Latin]. Incipit: ‘[O]mnipotens et misericors deus, ecce accedo ad sacramentum preciosissimi corporis et sanguinis unigeniti filii tui, domini nostri Jesu Christi . . .’ [g7v] ‘Oratione che se fa dopo la comunione’ [Latin]. Incipit: ‘[S]it, Iesu dulcissime, sacratissimum corpus tuum et sanguis dulcedo et suauitas anime . . .’ [g8r] ‘Li dieci comandamenti.’ ‘Chi uita eterna uole aquistare &pipe; Li dieci comandamenti de dio debe obseruare &pipe; Lo primo uno dio adorando sempre amare’; 14 lines of mnemonic verse. [g8v] ‘Credo uulgare facto in rima.’ ‘[C]redo in un padre omnipotente dio &pipe; Del celo creatore e de la terra’; 7 tercets and 1 line. [g8v] [Verses to the reader.] ‘Ne te detineat seui fera regia ditis &pipe; Hec lege que facili sunt modo scripta manu’; 2 elegiac distichs. [h1r] ‘Rubrice.’
[Mantua: Paulus de Butzbach, c.1473]. 4°. [a10 b–d8 e f10 g8 h2].Collation as Sheppard. GW collates as [a10 b–e8 f g10 h2]. GW 2175;R 28;Goff A-846;Pr 6890;Accurti I 136; Rhodes, ‘Mantua’, 181 no. 19; Sheppard 5623.
Copy Gathering [h] bound before [a]. Leaf [b1r] begins ‘tirranno . . .’, not as GW. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century brown morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 216 × 153 × 19 mm. Size of leaf: 208 × 146 mm. Notes in lower margins of [b2] and [d1]. Pointing hand on [f5v] in faded brown ink. On [a1r] a one-line ‘O’ is supplied in red, with floral decoration of green vine-stems with red, blue, and green leaves, extending into the inner, outer, and upper margins, all in nineteenth-century(?) water colour. One-line initials are supplied in black ink on [g1r] and [g8v]. Provenance: Inscription on [h2v], partially visible under ultraviolet light: ‘Libro Tomo [ ]io familio [ ] &pipe; [ ] al[ ] coriacho &pipe; 19 [ ] 1574 [ ]’. Label on spine ‘118′. Date of acquisition unknown, but the shelfmark may indicate a date c.1884. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.40.
A-341 Antoninus Florentinus Decisio consiliaris super dubio producto de indulgentiis.
[a1v] Antoninus Florentinus Decisio consiliaris super dubio producto de indulgentiis. Incipit: ‘[D]e indulgenciis nil expresse habemus ex sacra scriptura, quamuis ad hoc inducatur illud apostoli . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 83-4 no. 242; Orlandi 304 no. (G) 2.
Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, [c.1477]. Folio. [a10]. GW 2179;H *1235;Goff A-863;BMC II 448;Pr 2165;BSB-Ink A-607; Sheppard 1573.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century dark half blue morocco, for the Bodleian Library. Size: 284 × 200 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 187 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 1859, with the price given incorrectly as £0. 5. 0, rather than £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1859), 10; the smaller figure must have been paid for A-323. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 4.39.
A-342 Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars III.
a2r ‘Tabula titulorum seu capitulorum uel rubricarum.’ a6r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[A]stitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato circumdata varietate”, Psalmista 44 [Ps 44,10]. Uerba ista prophete loquentis ad dominum deum . . .’ See Bloomfield 499. a9r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars III.1. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]eatus es et bene tibi erit, uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tue . . .” [Ps 127,2-3]. Dicit sacrosanctum concilium vniuersale ecclesie . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 295-7 no. (A) 1. See also William T. Gaughan, Social Theories of Saint Antoninus from his Summa Theologica, Catholic University of America, Studies in Sociology, 35 (Washington, DC, 1950); Peter Howard, ‘0.6 mm“Non parum laborat formica ad colligendum unde vivat”: Oral Discourse as the Context of the “Summa theologica” of St Antoninus of Florence’, Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 59 (1989), 89-148; Peter Howard, ‘Diversity in Discourse: The Preaching of Archbishop Antoninus of Florence before Pope, People and Commune’, in Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University. Proceedings of International Symposia at Kalamazoo and New York, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse, Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Debra L. Stout and Anne T. Thayer, Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, Textes et études du moyen âge, 9 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1998), 283-307. 2a2r ‘Tabula titulorum seu capitulorum.’ 2a5r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars III.2. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[R]eligiositas custodiet cor”, eccle 2 [Sir 1,18]. Status religionis denominatur a virtute quadam morali que dicitur religio . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 296-7 (A) 1.
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1477. Folio. Part 1: a12 b–z [et] [con] [rum] A–F10 G8 H8 I6 K8; part 2: a12 b–e10 f12 g–n10 o–q12 r–z [et] [con] [rum] A–E10.GW collates H10 in part 1. GW 2185 (3,1);HC *1243;Goff A-872;BMC V 177;Pr 4102;BSB-Ink A-595; Lowry, Jenson no. 50; Sheppard 3279.
First copy Part 1 only. Wanting the blank leaves a1 and K8, and the whole of part 2. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns. Size: 278 × 200 × 55 mm. Frequent marginal notes. Provenance: Purchased for ‘Fl. 9′ from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Catalogue 3 (1885), no. 13; see Library Bills (1885), no. 210. SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 5.26. Second copy Part 2 only. Wanting a8 and the whole of part 1. Binding: Contemporary German (Frankfurt, Johannes Fabri) blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Fillets form three concentric frames, the middle one containing a worn cresting roll, the inner one with a vine-stem roll. The inner rectangle is bordered by a small vine-stem roll and a floral roll, and is decorated with merrythoughts, in the centres of which is either a fleuron or, on the lower cover only, the shield mark of Johannes Fabri, for which see Adolf Schmidt, ‘Zur Geschichte deutscher Buchbinder im 16. Jahrhundert’, Beiträge zum Rollen- und Platteneinband im 16. Jahrhundert, ed. Ilse Schunke, Sammlung bibliothekswissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, 46 (Leipzig, 1937), 84-5. Similar bindings in Munich, BSB 4° Inc. c.a. 47a and 2° Inc. c.a. 196. On the spine a circular rose stamp, with other stamps too badly worn for identification. On the upper cover a contemporary manuscript title label. Size: 293 × 213 × 80 mm. Size of leaf: 265 × 183 mm. Two leaves from an eleventh-century German epistolary, containing portions of epistles from Pentecost to the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, and one leaf, formerly a pastedown, from a fourteenth-century missal, containing the order of the mass from the end of the canon to the prayers after mass, were removed from the binding in 1919. These leaves are now MS. Lat. liturg. b. 7, fols 2, 3, 6. Early marginal notes. Manuscript title on front endleaf. Six- to eight-line initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; three- and six-line initials, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: Reinhardus de Sickingen (†1482), Bishop of Worms 1445-82. Wimpfen, Baden-Württemberg, Dominicans, Sancta Crux, 1480; gift from Sickingen; inscription inside the upper cover: ‘Istum librum dedit conuentui generosus et nobilis dominus Reinhardus de Sickingen episcopus Wormaciensis Anno domini 1480′; also book-label [seventeenth-century?] inside the upper cover: ‘Liber Bibliothecae Conventus Wimpinensis Ordinis Praedicatorum’; and sixteenth-century(?) inscription on a2r: ‘Conuentus Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Wimpinae’. Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co. for £3. 15. 0; see Library Bills, 25 Feb. 1905. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1477.1.
A-343 Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars IV.
a1v Franciscus Moneliensis ‘Epistola’ [addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘[E]st, mihi crede, hoc opus summis laudibus ac honore celebrandum . . .’ a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Proemium.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]enedictionem dabit legislator ibunt de uirtute in uirtutem” . . . [Ps 83,8]. Tota uita hominis supper terram est quoddam iter . . .’ See Bloomfield 635. a3r [Table of contents.] a4v [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit ipse Antoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus, Romane vrbis olim auditor . . .’ a4v [Epitaph for Antoninus.] ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo &pipe; Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas’; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416. a4v [Colophon.] a5r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars IV. Incipit: ‘[C]irca uirtutem in generali consideranda sunt sex . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 297 (A) 1. N9r [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit ipse Antoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus, Romane vrbis olim auditor . . .’ N9r [Epitaph of Antoninus.] ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo &pipe; Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas’; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416.
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 18 April 1480. Folio. a12 b–h10 i8 k–n8.10 o8 p–y8.10 z [et] [con] [rum] A–K10 L8 M N10.GW collation has second gathering of ten leaves signed ‘p’, after the first one, presumably a mistake for ‘q.’ GW 2185 (4);HC *1243 (4);Goff A-872;BMC V 181;Pr 4124;BSB-Ink A-595; CIBN A-453; Lowry, Jenson no. 83; Sheppard 3295.
Copy Leaf s1 is signed r, but corrected in black ink. Binding: English eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf, over bevelled wooden boards; marbled pastedowns; in imitation of earlier style. Size: 307 × 225 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 294 × 202 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations. Three- to seven-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Initials with pen-flourishing counter-changed with the colour of the initial. Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; not found in sale catalogue. Purchased for £0. 7. 6.; see Books Purchased (1844), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.28.
A-344 Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Partes I–IV. Part I.
[a2r] Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[Q]uam magnificata sunt opera tua, domine” [Ps 91,6] . . . Contemplatur philosophia in excessu mentis positus . . .’ See Bloomfield 4355. [a3r] ‘Tabula.’ [a4r] Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars I. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[V]enite, audite, et narrabo omnes qui timetis deum, quanta fecit anime mee” [Ps 65,16] . . . Invitat Psalmista non omnes sed timentes deum . . .’ See Bloomfield 6375; Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 297 no. (A) 2. [M5v] [Colophon.] [M5v] [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit idem sacre scripture interpres anno legis . . .’ [M5v] [Epitaph for Antoninus.] ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo &pipe; Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas’; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416. &locus;Part II. [a2r] Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[T]u contribulasti capita draconum in aquis, tu confregisti capita draconis” . . . [Ps 73,13-14]. Dicit dominus Ezechielis, xviii, ‘`Anima que peccauerit ipsa morietur” [Ez 18,20]. De anima quidem et eius nobilitate et de potenciis eius quibus operatur . . .’ See Bloomfield 6102. [a3v] Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars II. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[F]ilii hominum usque quo graui corde vt quid diligitis vanitatem et queritis mendacium” [Ps 4,3] . . . Gregorius xiiii moralia cxix super v plumbi lamina . . .’ [O3v] [Colophon.] [O4r] [Table of contents.] &locus;Part III. [a2r] Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[A]stitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato circumdata varietate”, Psalmista xliiii [Ps 44,10]. Uerba ista prophete loquentis ad dominum deum . . .’ See Bloomfield 499. [a5r] Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars III. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]eatus es et bene tibi erit, uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tue . . .” [Ps 127,2-3]. Dicit sacrosanctum concilium vniuersale ecclesie . . .’ [ee8r] [Colophon.] [*2r] [Table of contents.] &locus;Part IV. [a2r] Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]enedictionem dabit legislator ibunt de virtute in virtutem” . . . [Ps 83,8]. Tota vita hominis super terram est quoddam iter . . .’ See Bloomfield 635. [a3r] Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars IV. Incipit: ‘[C]irca virtutem in generali consideranda sunt sex . . .’ [V8v] [Table of contents.] [V9v] [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit ipse Antoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus, Romane urbis olim auditor . . .’ [V9v] [Epitaph for Antoninus.] ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo &pipe; Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas’; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416. [V9v] [Colophon.]
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1477-9. Folio.In four parts, dated: (I) 17 Oct. 1478; (II) 10 Oct. 1477; (III) 26 Jan. 1478; (IV) 29 Apr. 1479. The colophon-date of part III reads ‘Februarii Kalendas septimo’, which is 26 Jan., incorrectly interpreted in BMC as 26 Feb. Colophon of part I, l. 4, reads ‘ . . . Nürn= &pipe; berg’, as GW, not as BMC. Part I: [a10 b–o8 p6 q–t8 v6 A10 B–L8 M6]; part II: [a8 bc10 de8 fg10 h6 i8 k10 l–n8 op10 qr8 s–z10.8 A8 B10 C8 D–F10 G H8 I10 K–N8 O6]; part III: [a–c10 d–f8 g–v10.8 x y8 z10 A–Y8.10 Z8 aa10 bb8 cc10 dd10 ee8 *6]; part IV: [a–i8 k6 l–o8 pq6 r–z8 A–K8 L10 M–Q8 RS6 T8 V10].In part I, GW collates as ‘[x10 yz8 A–H8 I6]’. In part II, collation as GW [D10] not as BMC, and as BMC [H8] not as GW. GW 2186;HC *1242;Goff A-871;BMC II 416, 415, 417;Pr 1988, 1981, 1983, 1992;BSB-Ink A-594; CIBN A-452; Sack, Freiburg, 228; Sheppard 1452, 1440(b), 1443-4, 1455.
Copy Bound in 4 volumes. Part III wanting [a1]. Part II: [y3] and [y4] bound in reverse order. Part III: [*] bound before [a]. Binding: All four volumes bound in contemporary German (Munich, bindery with the unicorn stamp) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with marks of bosses and clasps visible. Contemporary parchment book-label, with title, on the upper covers of parts I, II, and IV, but missing from part III; remains of historiated woodcut initial ‘D’ on parts I and II, and manuscript ‘E’ on parts III and IV, probably marking a break in shelving between the four volumes. Stamps now very badly worn. On both covers triple fillets form an outer frame within which are small floral and rectangular foliate stamps. Double fillets form a further frame, within which are a lozenge-shaped unicorn stamp and, at each corner, a fylfot stamp. In the inner rectangle of the upper cover are merrythoughts, with the lozenge-shaped unicorn stamp in the centre of each. On the lower cover the inner panel is divided by double fillets into compartments of various shapes. Parts II and III have leather tabs marking sections. Similar bindings: (1) Munich, BSB: 2° Inc.c.a. 340a, 742a, 1024, and many others; (2) Budapest, Library of Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Inc. 1008.rubbing made; M. Rozsondai Size: Volume 1: 500 × 350 × 95 mm; vol. 2: 505 × 350 × 105 mm; vol. 3: 505 × 350 × 140 mm; vol. 4: 507 × 350 × 115 mm. Size of leaf: Pt I: 480 × 320 mm; pt II: 483 × 332 mm; pt. III: 476 × 320 mm; pt IV: 480 × 327 mm. Part III contained the following pastedowns, which were removed in Apr. 1918:&br;1. Sixtus IV, Pont. Max., Summarium indulgentiarum bullae apostolicae contra Turcos. Augsburg: Johann Blaubirer, after 4 Dec. 1480;&br;2. Sixtus IV, Pont. Max., Forma confessionalis [in favour of war against the Turks]. Augsburg: Johann Blaubirer, 1482. Occasional marginal annotations. Parts I, II and IV: Five- to seven-line initials, often with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks and underlining are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Part III: Four- to eight-line initials and paragraph marks supplied in red. On [a2r] eleven-line initial is supplied in red with extensions into the margins and infill and pen-flourishing in black ink; on [a5r] fifteen-line initial is supplied with similar decoration. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: Munich, Franciscan Observants; S. Antonius de Padua; circular stamp on upper edges of each volume: ‘SAM’, with cross; ‘Monachii ad Patres Franciscanos pro bibliotheca.’ Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Inc. Typ. No. 57′, formerly ‘Inc. Typ. No. 32′, this now deleted. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q inf. 1.6-9.
A-345 Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Partes II–IV.
&locus;Part II. a1r [Title-page.] a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[T]u contribulasti capita draconum in aquis, tu confregisti capita draconis” . . . [Ps 73,13-14]. Dicit dominus Ezechielis xviii, ‘0.6 mm“Anima que peccauerit ipsa morietur” [Ez 18,20]. De anima quidem et eius nobilitate et de potentiis eius quibus operatur . . .’ See Bloomfield 6102. a3v ‘Tabula.’ a6v Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars II. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[F]ilii hominum usque quo graui corde vt quid diligitis vanitatem et queritis mendacium”, Psalmista iiii [Ps 4,3]. Gregorius xiiii moralia cxix super v plumbi lamina . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 298 no. (A) 6. T7v [Colophon.] &locus;Part III. A1r [Title-page.] A2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[A]stitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato circumdata varietate”, Psalmista xliiii [Ps 44,10]. Uerba ista prophete loquentis ad dominum deum . . .’ See Bloomfield 499. A5r ‘Tabula.’ B3v Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars III. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]eatus es et bene tibi erit, uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tue . . .” [Ps 127,2-3]. Dicit sacrosanctum concilium vniuersale ecclesie . . .’ ll9v [Colophon.] &locus;Part IV. a1r [Title-page.] a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Proemium.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]enedictionem dabit legislator ibunt de virtute in virtutem . . .” [Ps 83,8]. Tota vita hominis super terram est quoddam iter . . .’ See Bloomfield 635. a3v ‘Tabula.’ a5r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars IV. Incipit: ‘[C]irca uirtutem in generali consideranda sunt sex . . .’ P8r [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit ipse Anthoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus Romane vrbis olim auditor . . .’ P8r [Epitaph for Antoninus.] ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo &pipe; Non cesses mesto spargere rore genas’; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416.
Speier: Peter Drach, 1487-8. Folio.In five parts, four of which are dated (I) 1 Oct. 1487; (II) 4 Aug. 1487; (III) 8 Feb. 1488; (IV) 17 Feb. 1487; (V) [undated]. Part I: a–z8 A–H8 I–L6 M8; part II: a–z8 [et]8 [con]6 A–O8 2O8 P–T8; part III: A6 B–V8 AA–EE8 FF10 a–z8 [et]8 aa–kk8 ll10; part IV: a b10 c12 d10 e12 f–y10 A–L10 M–P8.Part II: m4 is signed miii, N4 is signed Niii; part III: A2 signed A, A3 signed Aii. GW 2190 (2-4);HC *1247 (2-4); H 1258 (IV);Goff A-876;BMC II 495-6;Pr 2369, 2373, 2367;BSB-Ink A-599; Geldner, Drach, col. 181; Sack, Freiburg, 233; Sheppard 1712.
Copy Parts II–IV only, bound in three volumes; wanting part I and Johannes Molitoris’ table (part V). Part of lower margin (containing inscription?) cut away from dd1. Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled half calf over wooden boards (modern boards on part IV). Fillets form three panels, with, for parts II and III, lozenge-shaped dragon stamps in upper and lower panels, and with circular rose stamps, bordered by lily stamps and small floral stamps in the middle compartment; for part IV, on the upper cover the dragon and lily stamps are replaced by a lozenge-shaped lion rampant stamp; there is a scroll stamp at the upper edge of the middle compartment; stylized palm-leaf and floral stamps on spines. Title in ink on the upper cover of parts II and III.rubbing made; M. Rozsondai Size: Volume 1 (part II): 317 × 233 × 80 mm; vol. 2 (part III): 317 × 235 × 115 mm; vol. 3 (part IV): 317 × 227 × 90 mm. Size of leaf: 302 × 202 mm. A pencil note on the modern pastedown of part IV states in error: ‘For leaves removed from binding of this book see MS. Lat. lit. f.121.’; this shelfmark [MS. Lat. liturg. f. 121] does not, apparently, now exist. Marginal annotations, many early, some in red ink. Partial rubrication: underlining, some chapter numbers, and some four- and five-line initials supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: Augsburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, SS. Udalrichus et Afra; probably Braun, Notitia historico-literaria, 154 no. XIX and 168-99, no. XXI. Purchased on 5 Nov. 1885 for 8 Marks, from Albert Cohn, Catalogue 168, no. 157; see Library Bills (1885), no. 319. SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q inf. 1.20-2.
A-346 Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Partes I–IV. Part I.
(a1r [Title-page.] (a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[Q]uam magnificata sunt opera tua, domine” [Ps 91,6] . . . Contemplatur profeta in excesso mentis positus . . .’ See Bloomfield 4355; Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 298 no. (A) 8. (a3r ‘Tabula.’ (a4r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[V]enite audite et narrabo omnes qui timetis deum quanta fecit anime mee”, Psalmista [Ps 65,16]. Inuitat psalmista non omnes sed timentes deum . . .’ See Bloomfield 6375. (cc5v [Colophon.] &locus;Part II. (A1r [Title-page.] (A2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[T]u contribulasti capita draconum in aquis, tu confregisti capita draconis” . . . [Ps 73,13-14]. Dicit dominus Ezechielis xviii, ‘`Anima que peccauerit ipsa morietur” [Ez 18,20]. De anima quidem et eius nobilitate et de potentiis eius quibus operatur . . .’ See Bloomfield 6102. (A3v ‘Tabula.’ (A5r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[F]ilii hominum vsque quo graui corde vt quid diligitis vanitatem et queritis mendacium” [Ps 4,3] . . . Gregorius xiiii moralia cxix super v plumbi lamina . . .’ (LL7v [Colophon.] &locus;Part III. a1r [Title-page.] a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[A]stitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato circumdata varietate” [Ps 44,10]. Uerba ista propheta loquentis ad dominum deum exponi possunt . . .’ See Bloomfield 499. a4r ‘Tabula.’ b1r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]eatus es et bene tibi erit. Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tue . . .” [Ps 127,2-3]. Dicit sacrosanctum concilium vniuersale ecclesie . . .’ zz7v [Colophon.] &locus;Part IV. A1r [Title-page.] A2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[B]enedictionem dabit legislator ibunt de virtute in virtutem . . .” [Ps 83,8]. Tota vita hominis super terram est quoddam iter . . .’ See Bloomfield 635. A3r ‘Tabula.’ a4r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Incipit: ‘[C]irca virtutem in generali consideranda sunt sex . . .’ QQ7v [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit ipse Anthoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus Rhomane vrbis olim auditor . . .’ QQ7v [Epitaph for Antoninus.] ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo &pipe; Non cesses mesto spargere rore genas’; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416. a1r [Title-page.] a2r [Molitoris, Johannes] ‘Prologus in tabulas.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uia reuerendissimus et eximius pater dominus Anthoninus Florentinorum archipresul in sua singularis progatiue summa varia diuersorum doctorum autentica scripta atque ad omnem materiam tam theologicam quam canonicam sententias ex doctorum dictis . . .’ a2r [Molitoris, Johannes Table.] ‘Repertorium.’
Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1496. Folio.In five parts dated: (I) 4 Sept. 1496; (II) 24 Apr. 1496; (III) 6 Mar. 1496; (IV) 12 Aug. 1496; (V [Table]) undated. Part I: (a8 (b6 (c8 (d6 (e8 (f6 (g8 (h6 (i6 (k8 (l–(m6 (n8 (o–(p6 (q8 (r–(s6 (t8 (v–(y6 (z8 (aa–(cc6; part II: (A8 (B6 (C8 (D–(E6 (F8 (G6 (H8 (I–(L6 (M8 (N–(P6 (Q8 (R–(T6 (U8 (X–(Y6 (Z8 (AA–(DD6 (EE8 (FF–(GG6 (HH8 (II–(KK6 (LL8; part III: a–f6.8 g6 h–z6.8 aa6 bb8 cc dd6 ee8 ff gg6 hh8 ii kk6 ll8 mm6 nn8 oo–qq6 rr8 ss–yy6 zz8; part IV: A B8 C D6 E8 F–H6 I8 KL6 M8 N–P6 Q8 R6 S8 T6 U8 X–Z6 AA6 BB8 CC–EE6 FF8 GG6 HH8 II–PP6 QQ8; table: a b6 c14 d–n6.In part III, GW collates a8. GW 2192;HC (+ Addenda) *1249;Goff A-878;BMC I 109-10;Pr 472,470,469,471;BSB-Ink A-601; Oates 190 (IV); Rhodes 109; Sack, Freiburg, 238; Schmidt, Grüninger, no. 24; Sheppard 375-7.
First copy Wanting the blank leaf LL8 in part II. Five parts bound in four volumes. Molitoris’s table is bound in at the beginning of part I, rather than at end of part IV. Binding: English, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. All four volumes bound uniformly, by the ‘Foliate staff binder’. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp. On both covers triple fillets form a double frame, with an inner rectangle divided by fillets into lozenge-shaped compartments: for stamps see Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xxvi no. 340, and, within the outer frame, Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xxvi no. 339. Fragments of manuscript leaves as reinforcing slips in parts II–IV. Former pastedowns from these volumes are now Inc. b. G97.1(18); see B-552, Bernhard von Breydenbach,Peregrinatio in terram sanctam Mainz: Erhard Reuwich, 11 Feb. 1486. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: Volume 1: 320 × 230 × 65 mm; vol. 2: 320 × 230 × 55 mm; vol. 3: 323 × 235 × 70 mm; vol. 4: 322 × 230 × 63 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 210 mm. Early marginal notes, some possibly in the hand of Edward Medley. In part I, on (cc6v a page of notes on Molitoris’s table, written in a contemporary hand, perhaps that of Medley, with incipit ‘Hec tabula pro simplicibus declarat modum allegandi tam theologos quam iura canonica et ciuilia ac aliquas abbreviationes . . .’ Provenance: John Purcell (sixteenth century); on [u2r] of the former pastedowns (see above under the description of the binding) several inscriptions of ‘Johannes Purcell capellanus’ and other names in English hands. Edward Medley (fl. 1512-1515). Anthony Morgan (1569/70-1608/9.) Donated by Morgan in 1601; see Benefactors’ Register I 32; Jensen, ‘Benefactors’ Register’, no. 59. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: A.11.4-7 Th. See James, Catalogus (1605), 11. Auct. 1Q 2.14 has shelfmark Auct. 1Q 1.7 on a1r. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 2.12-15. Second copy Part II: wanting LL8. Part IV: wanting the blank leaf QQ8. Part II: (C3 bound as (D3, (C6 appears after (D4. Part III: c1 printed in type measuring 69 mm, Haebler’s M18, with heading type c.150 mm, same M-form. Part IV: P3r, P4v, KK1r, KK6v are of different settings. By an error of imposition, the text of EE1v and EE6r is repeated on KK1v and KK6r, but in a different setting. II2, KK2-3 and LL1 are printed in Haebler’s M18 type, with the heading type as above. Five parts bound in two volumes. Parts bound in same order as in copy 1, with the first volume containing Molitoris’s table, parts I and II, and the second volume parts III and IV. Binding: Both volumes bound in English nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf. Size: Vol. 1: 322 × 218 × 94 mm; vol. 2: 322 × 218 × 102 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 197 mm. Provenance: Thomas Browne (†1587); inscription on a1r of vol. one: ‘Codex Thomas Brounei qui Romani pontificis auctoritate prorsus negat hic passimque per omnes codices suos’. John Browne (†1603); inscription on a1r of vol. 2. University College, Oxford; book-plates; shelfmark: ‘KK.53.5,6′; ‘List of Rare Books’, p. 2. Deposited in 1941 by the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford. SHELFMARK: Univ. Coll. c.18-19.
A-347 Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars I.
a2r Antoninus Florentinus ‘Prologus.’ ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[Q]uam magnificata sunt opera tua, domine, omnia in sapientia fecisti . . .” [Ps 91,6]. Contemplatur propheta in excessu mentis positus . . .’ See Bloomfield 4355. a3r ‘Tabula.’ a4r Antoninus Florentinus Summa theologica. Pars I. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[V]enite audite et narrabo omnes qui timetis deum quanta fecit anime mee”, Psalmista 65 [Ps 65,16]. Invitat psalmista non omnes sed timentes deum . . .’ See Bloomfield 6375; Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 301 (B) 1. B7v [Colophon.] B7v [Epitaph for Antoninus.] ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo &pipe; Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas’; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416.
Venice: Marinus Saracenus, 18 Jan. 1487. Folio. a10 b–z [et] [con] [rum] A B8. GW 2194;H *1252;Goff A-866;BSB-Ink A-603; CIBN A-458; Hillard 158; Sheppard 4108.
Copy Binding: Parchment over pasteboards, apparently once covered with marbling, but now badly worn. Some Hebrew script is visible on the parchment on the outside of the lower cover; also some fragments from a late medieval musical manuscript, with musical notation. Size: 305 × 207 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 301 × 200 mm. Marginal annotations, underlining, and pointing hands, all in black ink. Provenance: Hieronymus de Bononia (fifteenth/sixteenth century); inscription on a2r: ‘Ad vsum fratris hieronymi de bononia ordinis minoris conventualis’. Purchased from Wilfrid Michael Voynich, Catalogue 4, no. 234 for £3. 15. 0; see Library Bills, 24 Oct. 1903. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1487.1.
A-348 Antoninus Florentinus Tabula Johannis Molitoris super Summam theologicam. Fragment.
[Basel: Printer of the ‘Modus Legendi Abbreviaturas’], 6 July 1484. Folio.Traditionally ascribed to [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell]; on this, and on the location of the press and the printer; see BMC III 761. A10 B8 C6 D–F8 G6 H8 I6 KL8 m6 M–O8 P6 Q R8 S6 T–Z8 AA6 BBCC8 DD6 EE8. GW 2199;H *1262;Goff A-880;Sheppard 2464; Voulliéme, Köln, 818.
Copy Bound in a modern guard-book of miscellaneous fragments. Size of leaf: 270 × 182 mm. One leaf only, from the ‘Tabula virginis Marie’, with incipit: ‘Privilegia duodecim quomodo habuit beata virgo . . .’ One four-line initial ‘Q’ is supplied in blue, on the verso. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Provenance and date of acquisition unknown. SHELFMARK: Inc. b. G97.1(26).
A-349 Antonius de Bitonto Expositiones evangeliorum dominicalium.
[*1v] ‘Tabula sermonum siue expositionum euangeliorum totius anni fratris Anthonii de Bitonto continens puncta seu notabillia principalia inibi contenta ordine alphabetico.’ A1r Antonius de Bitonto Expositiones evangeliorum dominicalium. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[S]imile est regnum celorum homini patri familias, qui exiit primo mane conducere operarios in vineam suam etc.” Math[ei] .xx. [Mt 20,1]. Sicut habetur ex summa magistri Beleth, qui tractat de officiis ecclesie, quadruplex tempus inuenitur fuisse in genere humano a principio mundi vsque ad finem . . .’ On the text see Attanasio Gaeta, Antonio da Bitonto O.F.M., oratore e teologo del secolo xv, Pontificio Ateneo Antoniano, Facoltà Teologica, 79 (Salerno, 1952), 76-7.
Venice: Johannes Hamman, for Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 15 Aug. 1496. 4°. [*4] A–O8 P4. GW 2209;HC *3222;Goff A-889;BMC V 427;Pr 5198;BSB-Ink A-620; Sheppard 4153.
Copy Wanting P3 and P4. Binding: Nineteenth-century English c.1880, according to notes by A. W. Pollard in Library Records c. 1054); half russia over cloth for the British Museum; marbled pastedowns. Size: 188 × 127 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 182 × 119 mm. Provenance: Duplicate from the British Museum; shelfmarks: ‘851.k.15′; ‘IA. 23378′; stamps. Transferred to the Bodleian in Oct. 1913; ‘List of Duplicate Incunabula’ (Library Records c. 1054), no. 17. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.30.
A-350 Antonius de Bitonto Sermones dominicales per totum annum.
[*2r] ‘Tabula.’ A1r Antonius de Bitonto [Letter addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘Mihi equidem cure fuit religiose principes tue magnitudinis dilectione victus operam diligentem apponere . . .’ On the text see Gaeta 74-5. A2v Antonius de Bitonto Sermones dominicales per totum annum. Edited by Philippus de Rotingo. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[E]runt signa in sole et luna et stellis et in terris pressura gentium pre confusione sonitus maris et fluctuum” Luc[ae] 21 [Lc 21,25]. Pro huius sacri et sancti euangelii historiali declaratione notandum est quod tres conditiones ad rectum iudicium principaliter requiruntur . . .’
Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 25 Jan. 1496. 8°. [*] A–Q AA–PP8. The first gathering is numbered, but not signed. GW 2212;H *3219;Goff A-892;Pr 467 (erroneously for 2213);BSB-Ink A-623; Oates 189; Sack, Freiburg, 246; Sheppard 373.
Copy Bound with:&br;2. Antonius Rampigollis, Figurae Bibliae. Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 15 Nov. 1496 (R-008). Wanting F1. Binding: Eighteenth-century English blind-tooled brown morocco; marbled pastedowns. ‘M &pipe; 16′ and ‘2 &pipe; 9′ on round labels on the spine. Size: 161 × 105 × 56 mm. Size of leaf: 151 × 96 mm. On [1r/v] early notes with folio references. On last endleaf following item 2, ‘Forma, genus, mores, sapientia, res et honores &pipe; Morte ruant subita, sola manent merita’ (Walther, Proverbia, 9750) in an early hand. Occasional red capital strokes. Provenance: ‘Bibl. Thule’ on [1r] of item 1. Richard Towneley (1629-1707); armorial book-plate, dated 1702, on [*1v] of item 1: see Howe, Book Plates, 29653. Ware, Hertfordshire, St Edmund’s College. Charles Towneley (1737-1805), great-great-grandson of Richard Towneley, was educated at the English College at Douai, which was closed at the French Revolution, and combined with the Old Hall Green school at Ware in 1793, under the name of St Edmund’s College; see Independent Schools’ Yearbook 1991, 337; this book, and others bearing Richard Towneley’s book-plate, may have reached the college through him, although Edwin Burton, Catalogue of Books in the Libraries at St Edmund’s College, Old Hall, Printed in England and of Books Written by Englishmen Printed Abroad to the Year 1640 (Ware, 1902), p. iv, suggests that they may have come via Bishop James Talbot (†1790). Purchased by the Bodleian Library from St Edmund’s College in 1965; note [by David Rogers] on the verso of the front endleaf. SHELFMARK: Inc. f. X2(1).
A-351 Antonius de Bitonto Sermones quadragesimales de vitiis.
[1v] ‘Inuentarium siue tabula eorum que in hoc dialogo vel quadragesimali de vitiis continentur ordine alphabetico.’ [8r] ‘Rubrice siue tituli sermonum huius operis.’ a1r Antonius de Bitonto [Letter addressed to] Guidantonio da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[D]ubitari a quibusdam sepenumero solitum fuit, religiosissime princeps, cur Deus qui, vt Gen[esis] .i. legitur, “vidit cuncta que fecerat et erant valde bona” [Gn 1,31], humanam naturam peccabilem fecerit . . .’ a3r Montefeltro, Guidantonio Da [Letter addressed to] Antonius de Bitonto. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod ad me de creature rationalis conditione per te doctissime scriptum est, diu, religiose frater, vehementer optaui . . .’ See Caelestinus Piana, ‘Antonius de Bitonto O.F.M., praedicator et scriptor saec. xv’, Franciscan Studies, 13 (1953), 195-6. a3v Antonius de Bitonto Sermones quadragesimales de vitiis. Incipit: ‘[O]mnium equidem operationum, R[eligiosissime] P[rinceps], sicut e doctis haurio, triplex differentia esse potest . . .’ On the text see Gaeta 75-6.
Venice: Johannes Hamman, for Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 14 Feb. 1499. 8°. [*] a–z [et] [con]8. GW 2216;HC *3223;Goff A-896;BMC V 428;Pr 5202;BSB-Ink A-626; CIBN A-467; Sheppard 4157.
Copy Provenance: Tegernsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Quirinus; on front pastedown ‘Iste liber attinet venerabili monasterio S. Quirini martiris in Tegernsee Emptus anno 1507′, on back pastedown ‘Attinet Tegernsee.’ Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; no. 196(?). Purchased for £0. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 19. SHELFMARK: I d.56.
(A-352) Antonius Nebrissensis Enarrationes in psychomachiam Prudentii.
[a1r] [Title-page.] [a2r] Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis Enarrationes in psychomachiam Prudentii. Incipit: ‘[A]urelii Prudentii Clementis psycomachia incipitur. Auctor operis est Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, de cuius vita nihil aliud compertum habemus . . .’ See Felipe González Vega, ‘Nebrija comentador de Prudencio’, Estudios Humanísticos, Filología, 9 (1987), 205-15; Bibliografia Nebrisense, ed. M. A. Esparza Torres and H.-J. Niederehe, Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90 (Amsterdam, 1999), 55 no. 45.
[Salamanca: Juan de Porras, c.1502]. 4o.As assigned and dated by F. J. Norton, A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing in Spain 1501-1520 (Cambridge, 1978), no. 465; GW assigns to [Printer of Nebrissensis, ‘Gramática’], and dates [c.1500]. [a8] b6.In both gatherings, the third leaf is numbered ‘v’. Woodcut initials. Impression of bearer type on [a1r]. GW 2222;Goff A-901;Pr 9618;Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 472; Norton, Descriptive Catalogue, no. 465; Sheppard 7335; Vindel, Arte, II 232: 146.
Copy Bound with:&br;1. Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, Psychomachia. Salamanca: Juan de Porras, c.1502. Variants from GW description: [a1r], l. 1: ‘Pru- &pipe; dentij’; [a2r] unsigned, l. 1: ‘nebre&longs;&longs;ensis . . . Prud¯one;s &pipe; tij . . . incipiuntur’. On b6v last line: ‘pro aduerbio . . . &ecedilla;ñ. &longs;edet &ecedilla;tern¯onu;q: &longs;edebit. Finis.’ Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf for the Bodleian Library, with blue cloth; yellow-edged leaves. Size: 204 × 145 × 11 mm. Size of leaf: 196 × 138 mm. Provenance and dated of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark indicates a date of acquisition between 1861 and 1882. SHELFMARK: 300 f.13(2).
A-353 Antonius Nebrissensis Gramática castellana [Spanish]. Fragment.
Bibliografia Nebrisense, ed. M. A. Esparza Torres and H.-J. Niederehe, Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90 (Amsterdam, 1999), 48-9 no. 18.
Salamanca: [Printer of Nebrissensis, ‘Gramática’], 18 Aug. 1492. 4°. a–h8 i4. GW 2224;HC 11689;Goff A-902;BMC X 49;Pr 9563;Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 470; Sheppard 7327; Vindel, Arte, II 46: 29.
Copy Bound with other Spanish fragments in a modern guard-book. Fragments of the upper parts of d1–d8 only; the upper margin uncut. Size of fragments: 106 × 74 to 148 × 152 mm. Provenance: Fragments extracted from the binding of Passiones, Benedictiones, Lamentationes et reliqua (Palencia: Diego de Cordoba, 1536) [Don. b.14], purchased by Sir John Stainer (1840-1901) at Seville in 1897 and presented by him to the Bodleian in the same year: see Proctor, Bibliographical Society, News-Sheet (June 1897), 4. SHELFMARK: Inc. b. S97.1(4).
A-354 Antonius Nebrissensis Introductiones latinae. Secunda editio.
AA1r [Title-page.] AA2r Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis [Letter of dedication to] Guterius a Toleto. Incipit: ‘[A]pelles Chous, a quo uno Allexander ille magnus pingi se curauit, alios edicto prohibens . . .’ AA3r Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis Introductiones latinae. Incipit: ‘Prima nominis declinatio . . .’ On the text and its editions see Felix G. Olmedo, Nebrija (1441-1522), debelador de la barbarie, comentador eclesiastico, pedagogo, poeta (Madrid, 1942), 79-98 (this edition: 92 no. VII). See also Virginia Bonmatí Sánchez, ‘La gramática metódica en las Introductiones latinae de Antonio de Nebrija’, Revista Española de Lingüística, 17 (1987), 95-103.
[Venice]: Christophorus de Bottis (Gemonensis), 3 Mar. 1491. 4°. AA–GG8 HH10.Leaf AA1 is unsigned, AA2 is signed AA, etc. GW 2229;H *11687;Pr 5223 and Supplement (1900), 17;BSB-Ink A-64; CIBN A-469; Sheppard 4434.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 213 × 150 × 14 mm. Size of leaf: 209 × 141 mm. On AA2r an initial is supplied in blue with infill and grotesque extension in red; initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or, occasionally, blue; red capital strokes. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Inc. 841′. Purchased from Munich via Thomas Rodd for Fl. 2, i.e. £0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 27. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.18.
A-355 Antonius Nebrissensis Introductiones latinae. Fragments.
On the text and its editions see Olmedo, Nebrija, 95-6 no. XI.
Paris: Guy Marchant, for Denis Roce, 19 Nov. 1500. 4°. a8 b–n6 o4. GW 2233;R, Supplement, 135;Goff A-904;Sheppard 6243.
Copy Leaves d1, 6, e2, 5, f2, 5, i1, 6, k1, 2, 5, 6 only. These mutilated fragments are probably the ones listed as edition IV (Salamanca, 1485) by Olmedo, Nebrija, 91. Formerly part of the binding of B-183; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 194 × 138 mm. Binding: Modern black cloth (a guard-book of fragments). SHELFMARK: Inc. c. F97.2(2).
A-356 Antonius de Raymundia Libellus contra beneficiorum reservationes.
a2r Antonius de Raymundia Libellus contra beneficiorum reservationes. Incipit: ‘Inter huius lachrymosi et labentis seculi miseras calamitates et calamitosas miserias . . .’ a7r [Petrus de Ceffons] ‘Epistola Luciferi ad malos principes ecclesiasticos.’ Incipit: ‘Lucifer princeps tenebrarum tristia profundi Acherontis regens imperia . . .’ See Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 98, fol. 180r-v. Johann Wolf, Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum centenarii, I (Lauingen, 1600), 654-6. Gianni Zippel, ‘La lettera del Diavolo al clero, dal secolo XII alla Riforma’, Bullettino dell’Istituto Storico Italiano per il medio evo, 70 (1958), 125-79, at 163-6. Helen C. Feng, Devil’s Letters: Their History and Significance in Church and Society, D.Phil. thesis, Northwestern University, 1982, 353-62. Text dated 1351. Ascribed to Nicolaus Oresme, Heinrich von Langenstein or Konrad von Megenberg: see Wilhelm Wattenbach, ‘Über erfundene Briefe in Handschriften des Mittelalters, besonders Teufelsbriefe’, Sitzungsberichte der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 9 (1892), 91-123, at 96 and Konrad Joseph Heilig, ‘Zu zwei “Teufelsbriefen” des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts’, Historisches Jahrbuch, 52 (1932), 495-500. Ascribed to Pierre de Ceffons by Damasus Trapp, ‘Peter Ceffons of Clairvaux’, Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale, 24 (1957), 101-54 and Zippel 146. This ascription is doubted by Feng 164-73. On the manuscript tradition see Ottokar Lorenz, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter seit der Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts, 3rd edn (Berlin, 1887), II 398 n. 1, Heilig 495-6 and Feng 449-56.
[Paris]: Guy Marchant, [c.1498]. 4°. a8. GW 2255;C 524 = 5030;Goff A-916;Pr 8012;Fairfax Murray, French Books, 476; Hillard 165; Rhodes 114; Sheppard 6228.
Copy For this copy see Coates–Jensen 244-5, no. 3. Bound with:&br;2. Dialogus inter clericum et militem. Paris: Guy Marchant, partly for Denis Roce, 20 Sept. 1498 (D-051);&br;3. Theobaldus de Sexannia, Pharetra fidei Catholicae contra Judaeos. Cologne: Cornelis de Zierikzee, c.1499;&br;4. Julianus Pomerius, De vita contemplativa. [Speier: Peter Drach], 1487 (P-432(2));&br;5. Henricus de Hassia, Speculum animae. Cologne: Heinrich von Neuss, c.1508-16;&br;6. Robertus Gaguinus, Opera varia. Paris: André Bocard, for Durand Gerlier, 1498 (G-005(1));&br;7. Thomas à Kempis, Imitatio Christi. [Venice]: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, and Dionysius Bertochus, 1485 (T-098);&br;8. Libellus de modo confitendi et penitendi. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 24 Feb. 1491 (P-401);&br;9. Johannes de Sancto Geminiano, Disputatio Christi et latronis. Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, 1491. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 191 × 138 × 34 mm. Size of leaf: 184 × 129 mm. Provenance: William King (fifteenth/sixteenth century); see Ker, MLGB 96, 267, with house given as Haughmond, Shropshire; inscription on [*1r] of item 7: ‘Thys booke perthieynyht to ser Wylliam K[/R?]ynge chanon of Hanto[n?] thewyche I pray god’. Item 1 was presented to the Bodleian Library in 1602 by Stephen Rodvey (b. 1563); see Benefactors’ Register I 52a: ‘Aureus libellus contra Beneficior. reseruatio- &pipe; nes. 4.’; James, Catalogus (1620), 415: G 3. 4 [Th.]; item 2 is possibly referred to in James, ‘Catalogus’ (1602), fol. 53r: ‘Disputatio Anonymi de potestate prelatorum inter clericum et militem’ but as ‘Vita Antichristi. 4.’ in Benefactors’ Register I 52a, a donation of Rodvey’s; not found in James, Catalogus (1605); in James, Catalogus (1620), 166: G 3. 4 [Th.]; item 3 was donated by Lord Hunsdon; see Benefactors’ Register I 8: ‘Prosper pharetra fidei Catholic&ae;. 4′, and probably to be identified with the copy listed in James, Catalogus (1605), 481, as P 6. 13 [Th.], ‘Pharetra fidei’; in James, Catalogus (1620), 386: P 8. 8 [Th.]; item 4 was donated by Lord Hunsdon; see Benefactors’ Register I 8 ‘Prosper. de Vita Contemplatiua siue Act. 1487 4.’; also listed in James, Catalogus (1605), 481, as P 6. 13 [Th.] ‘Prosper De norma ecclesiasticorum. 1487′; in 1620 it had the shelfmark P 8. 8 [Th.]; items 3 and 4 are both marked with an ‘R’, probably a mark of a sixteenth century owner, associated with books presented by Lord Hunsdon; item 5 was donated by Lord Hunsdon; see Benefactors’ Register I 9: ‘H. Langenstein Speculum Anim&ae;’, and James, Catalogus (1605), 88 with reference to G 3. 4 [Th.], the same shelfmark which items 1 and 2 in this volume had in James, Catalogus (1620); in James, Catalogus (1620), this item has the shelfmark G 3. 3 [Th.]; item 6 carries the same ‘R’ as items 3 and 4, and was donated by Lord Hunsdon; see Benefactors’ Register I 9: ‘Rob. Gaguinus de Puritate conceptionis. 4. Par. 1498. Idem de Variis ecclesi&ae; ordinibus. 4. par. 1498. Eiusdem Epigramma et c. 4. Ib.’; also James, Catalogus (1605), 62: G 3. 3 [Th.]; in James, Catalogus (1620), 209, it is shelfmarked G 3. 3 [Th.]. Items 7, 8, and 9, belonged to James West (1704?–1772), who gave them to Thomas Hearne (1678-1735). Manuscript notes on f10r and g1r of item 7 are apparently in the same hand as notes on aa1r of item 8; this hand can be dated to after 1620 on the basis of a reference to James’s catalogue of that year. Sixteenth-century notes on cc4v of item 8 are in the same hand as notes on a1r of item 9 (`Si mea pena valet, melior mea littera fiet’). Item 9 had previously belonged to John Brod[ ] (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r; ‘Orate pro bono statu Johannis Brod[ ] et Agnes vxoris sue et pro animabus [ ]’. The simplest account for this seems to be that items 3 and 4 were given by Hunsdon and bound together by 1605; items 5 and 6 were given by Hunsdon and bound together by 1605, the reference to shelfmark G 3. 4 [Th.] for item 5 in James, Catalogus (1605) being interpreted as an error; there is no indication that items 1 and 2 came from Hunsdon; items 7, 8, and 9 came from Thomas Hearne. See Jensen, ‘Benefactors’ Register’, nos 16-17, 20-1, 76-7. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.9(1).
A-357 Antonius de Vercellis Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis.
a1v Brognolus, Ludovicus [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus a Turri. Incipit: ‘Cum omnes de nobis benemeriti sint, plurimum tamen supra ceteros eis nos debere fateri necesse est . . .’ Text dated Venice, 11 Nov. 1491. a2r Antonius de Vercellis Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis. See O. Schäfer, ‘De Fr. Antonio a Vercelis O. F. M. eiusque Quadragesimali ‘De aeternis fructibus Spiritus Sancti’, Archivum franciscanum historicum, 36 (1943), 253-72, with a list of his other works; Ottokar Bonmann, ‘0.6 mm“Memoriale” Antonii de Vercellis ad Laurentium Magnificum de Medicis coniuratione Pactiana (a. 1478) effectu frustrata’, Archivum franciscanum historicum, 43 (1950), 360-410, at 364-73. G8r ‘Registrum.’ [*1r] ‘Tabula.’
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, [for Alexander Calcedonius], 16 Feb. 1492/3. 4°. a–z [et] [con] [rum] A–G8 [*4]. GW 2260;H *15949;Goff A-918;BMC V 343;Pr 4522;BSB-Ink A-644; CIBN A-473; Oates 1810; Sheppard 3894.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 205 × 148 × 34 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 134 mm. Sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes; cropped. Provenance: On a1r: ‘1586 27 octobris emptus a Tho. M. sic vsui habitur’. Milan, Dominicans, S. Maria Gratiarum; inscription on a2r: ‘Pertinet loco Sancte Marie Gratiarum.’ Date of acquisition unknown; no indication from the shelfmark. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.5.
A-358 Anwykyll, John Compendium totius grammaticae (Partes I–IV). Fragment.
[Oxford: Theodoricus Rood, c.1483]. 4°.Probably issued together with the Vulgaria Terentii (T-053). [a b8 c–e6?] f g8 h6 [i6?] k6 l m8. GW 2263;C 5756?;Goff A-920;Pr 9750 (1);Duff 29; Sheppard 7492; STC 696.
Copy Bound with:&br;2. Publius Terentius Afer, Vulgaria Terentii. Oxford: Theodoricus Rood, not after 1483.&br;Formerly bound with Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale parts I–IV, with the commentary ascribed to Ludovicus de Guaschis. [Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, between 12 Oct. 1485 and 28 Jan. 1486], now in the University Library of Cambridge (Oates 3920). Gatherings f–h and k–m only. For photographs of some pages of this edition see Arch. G d.50(1-6). Binding: Nineteenth-century English (London) gold-tooled blue morocco; bound by Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf. Size: 213 × 150 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 208 × 140 mm. Numerous interlinear glosses in English in an early hand. Provenance: Walter Slugg (fl. 1508); signature in the part of the item now kept in Cambridge University Library. Reginald Cholmondeley (1826-1896); armorial book-plate; Howe, Book Plates, 5807. Purchased from Quaritch, Catalogue 124 (1892), no. 250 for £92. 10. 0; see Library Bills, 23 May 1892. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. E2.1483.1(1).
A-359 Apicius De re coquinaria.
[1v] Motta Mediolanensis, Antonius [Letter addressed to] Johannes Mollus. Botfield 215-16. [2v] Motta Mediolanensis, Antonius Carmen ad lectorem. Botfield 216. [*2v] Mollus, Bernardinus ‘Tetrastichon ad genitorem.’ Botfield 216; see Santoro, Uffici, 60. a1r Apicius De re coquinaria. [Edited by Johannes Baptista Pius.] Apicius, L’art culinaire, ed. Jacques André, new edn (Paris, 1974), 3-119. On the edition see Mary Ella Milham ‘Toward a Stemma and fortuna of Apicius’, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 10 (1967), 259-320, at 274-6, and 289; Joseph Dommers Vehling, Apicius, Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome (New York, 1977), 260-1. On the editor see Milham 275 and 295-6. On the nature of the authorship see, for instance, Friedrich Vollmer, ‘Studien zu dem römischen Kochbuche von Apicius’, Sitzungsberichte der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6 (Munich, 1920), at 29-36, and Edward Brandt, ‘Untersuchungen zum römischen Kochbuche. Versuch einer Lösung der Apicius-Frage’, Philologus, supplement 19 (1927). e8v Motta Mediolanensis, Antonius ‘Ad vulgus.’ Botfield 217. e8v Salandus, Johannes ‘Lectori.’ Botfield 217.
Milan: Guillermus Le Signerre, 20 Jan. 1498. 4°. [*2] a–e8. GW 2267;H *1283;Goff A-921;BMC VI 789;Pr 6069;BSB-Ink A-647-8; CIBN A-476; Sheppard 5031.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 198 × 138 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 131 mm. Occasional early marginal notes, early foliation. Greek words added in brown ink. Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823); armorial label: see sale (1824), lot 265. Purchased for £10. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1824), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 4.23.
A-360 Apicius De re coquinaria.
a1r [Politianus, Angelus] Note on the contents. Incipit: ‘Coquinariae capita Graeca ab Apitio posita haec sunt: Epimeles, Artoptus, Cepurica, Pandecter, Osprion, Trophetes, Polyteles, Tetrapus, Thalassa, Halieus. Hanc Plato adulatricem medicinae appellat.’ On the authorship see Milham 289. a1v Lancilotus, Blasius [Letter addressed to] to Bartholomeus Merula. Incipit: ‘Non ignoro hanc omnium esse consuetudinem, dulcis meorum studiorum comes sinceriorisque animi opitulator, ut super auctore, quem in manibus habent, nonnulla perstringant . . .’ a2r Apicius De re coquinaria. On this edition see Milham 276 and 289; Vehling 258. See also A-359. h4v Motta [Mediolanensis], Antonius ‘Ad uulgus.’ Botfield 217. h4v Salandus, Johannes ‘Lectori.’ Botfield 217. aa1r Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius De grammaticis et rhetoribus. Suet. Gram.; Rhet.
Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, [c.1500]. 4°.IGI dates after 1500. a–h4 aa bb4. Woodcut initials. GW 2268;H *1282 + C 5671;Goff A-922;BMC V 550 (Apicius only);Pr 5539;BSB-Ink A-649; Sheppard 4599.
Copy Bound with:&br;1. Baptista Mantuanus, De patientia. Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 17 Aug. 1499 (B-042);&br;3. Nicolaus Perottus, Rudimenta grammatices. Basel: Jacobus Wolff, de Pforzheim, c.1499;&br;4. Jacobus Wimpheling, Elegantiarum medulla. Speier: Conrad Hist, after 16 Oct. 1493;&br;5. Jodocus Wetzdorf, Ars memorandi. Reutlingen: Michel Greyff, after 1500?;&br;6. Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi. Venice: Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis, 14 Jan. 1491 (J-185(2)). Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin, dyed green, over wooden boards, two metal clasps; rebacked. Titles across the upper edge adjacent to the spine. On both covers triple fillets form a triple frame. Within the inner and outer frames and in the centre, a repeated foliate tool; within the middle frame, a lozenge-shaped stamp with a pelican and a small cornflower-stamp; in the inner rectangle and in the corners within the middle frame, a round fleur-de-lis stamp. Size: 215 × 157 × 68 mm. Size of leaf: 207 × 149 mm. Provenance: Purchased for £0. 17. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 3 (`Baptista, Joan.’). SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.13(2).
A-361 Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica [Greek].
a1r Prolegomena. Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium vetera, ed. C. Wendel (Berlin, 1935), 1-4. Following Wendel’s numbering, the prolegomena occur in the order Aa, Ba, Bb, Ab. C is not included. a2r Apollonius Rhodius ’Tn rgonautikn’. Edited by Johannes Lascaris. Argonautiques, ed. F. Vian, 3 vols (Paris, 1974-81). On the editing see letter to Lascaris from Marcus Musurus, printed in Pausanius (Venice: Aldus, 1516), see Legrand, Bibl. hell., I 146. a2r Scholia vetera. Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium vetera, ed. Wendel. A compilation of scholia based on those by Lucillus, Sophocles, and Theon. The edition of the scholia is partly based on Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, MS. 31, 11. On the transmission: see C. Wendel, ‘Die Überlieferung der Scholien zu Apollonius von Rhodos’, Abhandlungen der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, 3rd Ser., 1 (Berlin, 1932), 18-21.
Florence: [Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus], 1496. 4°. a–q I k–f8 c4. GW 2271;HC *1292;Goff A-924;BMC VI 667;Pr 6407;BSB-Ink A-650; CIBN A-478; Legrand, Bibl. hell., I 42; Oates 2439-40; Sheppard 5198-9; Rhodes 115.
First copy Binding: Eighteenth-century English blind-tooled mottled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 236 × 178 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 229 × 154 mm. Provenance: Probably bequeathed to the Bodleian Library by Thomas Marshall (1621-1685) as indicated by its former Bodleian shelfmark, ‘Mar. 124′. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 4.3. Second copy Binding: French nineteenth-century blue morocco by Thibaron-Joly. Size: 245 × 175 × 28 mm. Size of leaf: 235 × 157 mm. A running heading added in contemporary red ink numbers the books with Greek letters. Provenance: Bought from Damascène Morgand on 14 Jan. 1892 for Fr. 159 by Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); bill kept with the book; Elenchus, no. 252. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. B 1.6
A-362 Appellatio Universitatis Parisiensis
[a1v] Appellatio Universitatis Parisiensis de impositione decimae fructuum beneficiorum. Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine domini Amen. Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat euidenter et sit notum . . . Sacrosancta Romana ecclesia desideria et vota fidelium precipue Regum catholicorum et principum tanta nouit benignitate suscipere . . .’ Text dated 13 Sept. 1491. On the attempt of Charles VIII to impose a tithe on the university see Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier, Histoire de l’université de Paris, depuis son origine jusqu’en l’année 1600, IV (Paris, 1761), 454-60; Charles Richomme, Histoire de l’université de Paris (Paris, 1840), 131; M. E. Dubarle, Histoire de l’université de Paris (Paris, 1844), I 330-2. b2v ‘Secunda appellatio.’ Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine domini Amen. Tenore huius presentis publici instrumenti cunctis pateat euidenter et notum sit . . . Capitula, conuentus et collegia exemptis et non exemptis cniuscumque(!) dignitatis, status, gradus, ordinis preeminentie et conditionis existant in ciuitate . . .’ Text dated 18 Sept. 1491. b3r ‘Monitio vniuersitatis Parisiensis.’ Incipit: ‘Nos Guillermus Cappel, Rector vniuersitatis magistrorum et scolarium Parisius studen[tium], ex matura et concordi deliberatione eiusdem vniuersitatis monemus omnes et singulos magistros . . .’ Text dated 20 Sept. 1491. b3r Urbanus Vi, Pont. Max. ‘Bulla de reductione decime ad mediam partem.’ Incipit: ‘[U]rbanus episcopus seruus seruorum dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Ex paterne charitatis officio . . .’ Text dated Avignon, 27 Feb. 1378; not found in Magnum Bullarium Romanum. b4v [Note on the influence of councils.] Incipit: ‘[S]acrum concilium apostolorum fuit primitus post resurrectionem domini nostri Jesu Christi in ciuitate Antiochena celebratum . . .’
[Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, between 20 Sept. and 10 Nov. 1491]. 4°. [a4] b4. Woodcut initials. GW 2287;C 528a;Pr 9404;Campbell-Kronenberg I 165a; CIBN A-480; HPT II 421; ILC 264; Inventaris, 218; Sheppard 7235.
Copy Bound with:&br;2. Ascanius Valentinus, Sacellum Gregorianum. Ingolstadt: Wolfgang Eder, 1584;&br;3. Moses ben Maimon, Canones poenitenti Hebraice a R. Mose Aegyptio descripti, trans. G[uillelmus] N[orwich?]. Cambridge: University Press, 1631 (STC 18206);&br;4. [Simon Episcopius], Examen disputationis theologicae Antonii Walaei. Harderwijck: n. pr., 1627. On [a1r] l. 6: ‘Normanie.’ Binding: Parchment. Size: 183 × 137 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 177 × 133 mm. Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 28. Presented in 1659. SHELFMARK: 4° A 20(1) Th. Seld.
A-363 Appianus Historia Romana [Partes I-II].
1a2r [Decembrius], P[etrus] Candidus [Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[A]ppiani Alexandrini historiam seu ueterum incuria seu temporum iniquitate deperditam et ueluti longo postliminio ad nos redeuntem . . .’ 1a3r Appianus Historia Romana. Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[R]omanorum historiam scribere adorsus necessarium in primis mihi existimaui terminos preponere quibus nationibus imperent romani . . .’ 1o10r First colophon. 2a2r [Decembrius], P[etrus] Candidus [Preface addressed to] Alphonsus II of Aragon, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘[P]arthorum regem, ut ab Anneo accepimus, sine munere salutare nemo potest . . .’ 2a3r ‘Capitula.’ 2a4r Appianus ‘De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis.’ Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[S]enatus populusque Romanus mutuis sepenumero contentionibus de legum latione uel si quando debitorum abrogationes agrorumue partitiones fierent uel in comiciis una adessent dissidebant . . .’ On the text see Emilio Gabba, Appiano, La Storia delle guerre civili, Biblioteca di cultura, 59 (Florence, 1956). 2x10r Second colophon.
Venice: Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477. 4°.In two parts. Part I: 1a–i10 k–n8 o10; part II: 2a–c10 d12 e–x10. Woodcut borders on 1a2r and 2a2r; woodcut initials. GW 2290;H *1307 [II, I];Goff A-928;BMC V 244;Pr 4367, 4368;BSB-Ink A-651; CIBN A-482; Essling 221; Oates 1739-42; Rhodes 116; Sander 482; Sheppard 3532-3.
First copy Wanting the blank leaves 1a1 and 2a1. Leaf 1o8 backed. Binding: Nineteenth-century English (Durham) blind-tooled calf by F. Brown. Size: 268 × 206 × 73 mm. Size of leaf: 261 × 188 mm. Woodcut borders printed in red. Provenance: ‘Bibliothec&ae; . . .’; cropped and unread note on 1a2r. Edward Shipperdson (1780-1855). Gilbert R. Redgrave (1844-1941), 1885; inscription on endleaf and ex libris. James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871-1949). Bequeathed in 1951. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. d. I4.2. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I4.1477.3. Second copy Part I only. Wanting the blank leaf 1a1. Leaf 1o10 backed. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 282 × 210 × 27 mm. Size of leaf: 275 × 203 mm. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. Woodcut border printed in red. In the shield in the border on 1a2r is a roughly-drawn coat of arms: a fesse between a fleur-de-lis and a lion’s gamb. Provenance: Richard Furney (†1753). Bequeathed in 1755; see Benefactors’ Register II, under 1755. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 1.9. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 3.30.
A-364 Appianus Historia Romana [Partes I–II].
a2r P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius Preface addressed to] Alphonsus II of Aragon, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘[P]arthorum regem, ut ab Anneo accepimus, sine munere salutare nemo potest . . .’ a2v ‘Capitula.’ a3r Appianus ‘De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis.’ Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[S]enatus populusque Romanus mutuis saepenumero contentionibus de legum latione uel si quando debitorum abrogationes agrorumue partitiones fierent uel in comitiis una adessent dissidebant . . .’ t2r P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[A]ppiani Alexandrini historiam seu ueterum incuria seu temporum iniquitate deperditam et ueluti longo postliminio ad nos redeuntem . . .’ t2v Appianus Historia Romana. Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[R]omanorum historiam scribere adorsus necessarium in primis mihi existimaui terminos praeponere quibus nationibus imperent Romani . . .’
Venice: Christophorus de Pensis de Mandello, 20 Nov. 1500. folio. a8 b–z & [con] [rum] A6 B C8. GW 2291;HC 1312;Goff A-929;BMC V 473;Pr 5253;BSB-Ink A-652; Hillard 167; Oates 2061; Rhodes 117; Sheppard 4330.
First copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 300 × 216 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 287 × 200 mm. Copious early marginal notes in gatherings a–d. On C8v note in German in a sixteenth-century hand [beginning of a letter?]. On a3r a ten-line initial is supplied in ink, with floral decoration in lower margin. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, no. 5990 in list of duplicates in folio. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 5.37. Second copy Not in Sheppard. Bound with A-168(5); see there for details of binding and provenance. Sheet C4.5 only. Size of fragments: 298 × 204 mm. Foliation in black ink in the upper right-hand corner of each leaf: 174-5. SHELFMARK: Gibson 403(8).
A-365 Appianus Historia Romana [Pars I].
A1r P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[A]ppiani Alexandrini historiam seu ueterum incuria seu temporum iniquitate deperditam et ueluti longo postliminio ad nos redeuntem . . .’ A1v Appianus Historia Romana. Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[R]omanorum historiam scribere adorsus necessarium in primis mihi existimaui terminos pr&ae;ponere quibus nationibus imperent Romani . . .’
Scandiano: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, 10 Jan. [1495]. Folio.The colophon reads ‘M.CCCCLCXV.IIII. Idu¯onu; Ianuarii’. A–M6 N8. GW 2292;HC (+ Addenda) 1310;Goff A-930;BMC VII 1118;Pr 7325;BSB-Ink A-653; CIBN A-484; Oates 2727; Rhodes 118; Sack, Freiburg, 252; Sheppard 6062.
Copy Variants: D1r, headline: ‘LIBYCVS’; D6v headline: ‘LIEBR’; D3, printed with type 108 R; E1r, last marginal note: ‘Ingreditur &pipe; Scipio carta &pipe; ginem’. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter calf; gold-tooled spine. Size: 305 × 210 × 19 mm. Size of leaf: 301 × 202 mm. Erased note on N8v: ‘Liber est ad tempora(?) . . . pro[ ]rii’. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. Initials are supplied in red. Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate; sale, pt IV, lot 237. Date of acquisition unknown; most books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired during the 1840s. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 4.9.
A-366 Appianus Historia Romana [Pars II].
[a2r] Table of contents. [a2v] P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius Preface addressed to] to Alphonsus II of Aragon, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘[P]arthorum regem, ut ab Anneo accepimus, sine munere salutare nemo potest . . .’ [a3r] Appianus ‘De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis.’ Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[S]enatus populusque Romanus mutuis saepenumero contentionibus de legum latione uel si quando debitorum abrogationes agrorumue partitiones fierent uel in comiciis una adessent dissidebant . . .’ [r7v] Zovenzonius, Raphael ‘Carmen.’ ‘Hic est Alexandrinus Appianus &pipe; A Candido lingue latine patrono &pipe; Romanus. Hunc impressit et Vindelinus &pipe; Quem Spira nobilis parens Dedalei &pipe; Produxit ingeni faceti lepidique.’ B. Ziliotto, Raffaele Zovenzoni, la vita, i carmi, Celebrazioni degli Istriani illustri, 3 (Trieste, 1950), 160 no. 264.
[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472. Folio. [a10 b8 c10 d–f8 g10 h–m8 n o10 p8 q10 r8]. GW 2293;H *1306;Goff A-931;BMC V 160;Pr 4044;BSB-Ink A-654; CIBN A-485; Essling 220; Rhodes 119; Sheppard 3213.
Copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [r8]. Binding: Parchment. Size: 331 × 235 × 38 mm. Size of leaf: 330 × 221 mm. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. On [a2v] a six-line initial is supplied in red with pen-flourishing in pale brown; on [a3r] a seven-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-flourishing in red; other initials are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Purchased for £2. 17. 0; see Books Purchased (1822), 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.19.
A-367 Appianus Historia Romana [Pars II].
a1v ‘Capitula.’ a2r P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius Preface addressed to] Alphonsus II of Aragon, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘[P]arthorum regem, ut ab Anneo accepimus, sine munere salutare nemo potest . . .’ a3r Appianus ‘De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis.’ Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[S]enatus populusque Romanus mutuis saepenumero contentionibus de legum latione uel si quando debitorum abrogationes agrorumue partitiones fierent uel in comiciis una adessent dissidebant . . .’
Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 22 Oct. 1494. Folio. a–r8. GW 2294;HC *1309;Goff A-932;BMC VII 1088;Pr 7254;BSB-Ink A-655; CIBN A-486; Oates 2703; Rhodes 120; Sack, Freiburg, 253; Sheppard 6014.
Copy Wanting the blank leaf r8. Binding: Parchment; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 302 × 210 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 296 × 196 mm. Provenance: Giuseppe Serra, Duca di Cassano († before 1826); see Catalogo, 6. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 18; purchased for £0. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 1 and the annotated sale catalogue. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.14.
A-368 Applanus, Constantius Soliloquia de humani arbitrii libertate et potestate.
a2r Applanus, Constantius [Letter addressed to Cardinal Ascanius Maria Sforza]. Incipit: ‘[C]ato ille censorius honestioris uitae et eloquentiae thesaurus maximus quantum uetus illud soeculum patiebatur ocii rationem reddendam omnino censebat . . .’ a3r [Poem from the book to Ascanius Maria Sforza.] ‘Hic liber insignem fama meritisque salutat &pipe; Ascanium gratus cui cupit esse cliens’; 1 elegiac distich. a3v Petrus Cremonensis; Canonicus Regularis ‘Epigramma in auctoris Benemeriti commendationem excellentissimam.’ ‘Splenduit egregio maiestas Itala fastu &pipe; Dum ueteres pareret lingua Latina togas’; 8 elegiac distichs. a4r Lugarus, Nicolaus [Letter addressed to] Constantius, Abbot of S. Petrus de Pado, Cremona. ‘Ad reuerendum P. Constantium canonicum regularem sancti Petri de Pado Cremonae abbatem uirum eruditionis ac sanctitatis rctipon Nicolai Lugari swthra.’ Incipit: ‘[S]alue Constanti illius, quam paidan Graeci uocant, artifex summe et quem omnium errorum scaturigine carentem plan merito uocitant . . .’ a5r Eleutherius Cremonensis [Letter to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Sepenumero (si dilligenter(!) animaduertere uolumus) id euenit, ut quicquid legitur auditurue delectationis . . .’ a6r Tabula. a12v Petronius, Bartholomaeus [Poem to the book.] ‘Quisquis amat uerae calles nouisse salutis &pipe; Te capit ardenti scite libelle manu’; 8 elegiac distichs. b1r Applanus, Constantius Soliloquia de humani arbitrii libertate et potestate. Incipit: ‘[C]on[stantius]: Dic, Anime mi, quid aduersi? Mihi nihil haesitans (scis enim taciturnitatem et fidem meam) illud explica . . .’ L10r Note to the reader. Incipit: ‘Ingeniis quantum his inferioribus c&oe;lestia speculari phas est quantumue humana facultas passa est ab impressore emendatissimo praecaueri, correctum perutilem ac iocundum habes libellum, lector egregie. In quo per medium uirtutis iter ad astra praepetes dat tibi pennas auctor Dedaleus, lector. Vale.’ L10v Petrus Cremonensis ‘Epistola ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘Celeberrimos ecclesiae militantis institutores Petrum, Paulum, Augustinum ac alios huiuscemodi praestanti uiros . . .’ L11r Eleutherius Cremonensis ‘Ad lectorem de utilitate libri hendecasyllabon.’ ‘Hunc, lector, facilis legas libellum &pipe; Nam prodest, iuuat, instruit legentem’; 32 hendecasyllables.
Cremona: Carolus de Darleriis, 4 Oct. 1496. 4°. a12 b–z & [con] [rum] A–C4 D–K8 L12. GW 2295;HC *1313;Goff A-933;BMC VII 959;Pr 6930;BSB-Ink A-656; CIBN A-487; Hillard 168; Oates 2605; Sheppard 5723.
Copy Binding: Parchment. Size: 193 × 145 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 186 × 137 mm. Provenance: Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.67.
A-369 Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Opera.
[a1r] [Bussis, Johannes Andreas de Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Botfield 68-78; Bussi 11-19. [a6r] Table of contents with incipits of each book. [b1r] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Metamorphoses sive De asino aureo. Incipit: ‘[A]t ego tibi sermone isto Milesio uarias fabulas conseram auresque tuas beniuolas lepido susurro permulceam . . .’ See B. L. Hijmans Jr., ‘Apuleius, philosophus Platonicus’, Aufstieg und Niedergang, II 36.1, 395-475, at 408. [i7r] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Florida. Florida, ed. Rudolf Helm, Apulei Platonici Madaurensis Opera quae supersunt, II/2 (Leipzig, 1959). Apuleius, Apologie. Florides, ed. Paul Vallette, 2nd edn (Paris, 1960), 125-72. [k7v] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘Apologie siue defensionis magie ad clarissimum uirum Claudium Maximum proconsulem.’ Apuleius, Apologie. Florides, ed. Paul Vallette, 2nd edn (Paris, 1960), 2-123. Pro se de magia liber (Apologia), ed. Rudolf Helm, Apulei Platonici Madaurensis Opera quae supersunt, II/1, 5th edn (Leipzig, 1972). [n7r] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘De deo Socratis’, prologue. De philosophia libri, ed. Paul Thomas, Apulei Platonici Madaurensis Opera quae supersunt, III (Leipzig, 1908), 1-5; Apuleius, Opuscules philosophiques et fragments, ed. Jean Beaujeu (Paris, 1973), 164-8. The prologue is in fact an excerpt from the Florida: see Beaujeu 161-2. [n8r] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘De deo Socratis.’ De philosophia libri, III, ed. Thomas, 6-35; Apuleius, Opuscules philosophiques, ed. Beaujeu, 20-45. [o4r] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De Platone, first book. ‘De dogmate Platonis.’ De philosophia libri, III, ed. Thomas, 82-103; Apuleius, Opuscules philosophiques, ed. Beaujeu, 60-78. [o9r] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De Platone, second book. ‘De philosophia.’ De philosophia libri, III, ed. Thomas, 103-34; Apuleius, Opuscules philosophiques, ed. Beaujeu, 79-107. [p6r] Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De mundo. ‘Cosmographia siue de mundo ad Faustinum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]onsideranti mihi et diligentius intuenti et sepe alias, Faustine, mihi uirtutis indagatrix expultrixque uitiorum, diuinarum particeps rerum philosophia uidebatur . . .’ See Hijmans, ‘Apuleius, philosophus Platonicus’, 408 and F. Regen, Apuleius — philosophus Platonicus. Untersuchungen zur Apologie (De magia) und zu De mundo, Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 10 (Berlin, 1971). [p12v] Hermes Trismegistus [Asclepius.] Translated by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis [pseudo-]. Incipit: ‘[A]sclepius iste pro sole mihi est. Deus, deus te nobis, o Asclepi, ut diuino sermoni interesses adduxit . . .’ De philosophia libri, III, ed. Thomas, 36-81; Corpus Hermeticum, ed. A. D. Nock and A.-J. Festugiére, II (Paris, 1945), 296-355. Translation wrongly ascribed to Apuleius: see K. H. Dannenfeldt, ‘Hermetica philosophica’, CTC I 137-51, at 144-7. [r1r] [Balbus, Petrus, Bishop of Tropea Letter addressed to] Nicolaus de Cusa. ‘Episcopi Tropien[sis] ad Nicolaum Cusensem cardinalem conuersio.’ Incipit: ‘[C]vm te intelligam, sapientissime atque optime patrum . . .’ [r1r] Alcinous;author [Albinus pseudo-] ‘Disciplinarum Platonis epitoma id est breuiarium.’ [Translated by Petrus Balbus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]ve sint propriissima Platonis documenta queue doctrina perbreuiter hinc ordinem . . .’ See A-151.
Rome: In domo Petri de Maximis (Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz), 28 Feb. 1469. Folio. [a6 b–o10 p q12 r10 s8]. GW 2301;HC *1314;Goff A-934;BMC IV 6;Pr 3297;BSB-Ink A-658; CIBN A-492; Oates 1358; Sheppard 2607.
Copy Wanting the blank leaf [s8]. Binding: Eighteenth-century French gold-tooled red morocco; on both covers triple fillets form a border, on the edges of boards double fillets, on the turn-ins floral and foliate stamps; on the spine two compartments with title and imprint, four with a floral stamp surrounded by tendrils and dots; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 330 × 237 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 318 × 215 mm. On [b1r] Roman white vine-branch border defined in blue, red, and green incorporating seven-line epigraphic initial painted in gold. A circular area enclosed by a green wreath is reserved for a coat of arms, never supplied. Initials are supplied in gold with white vine-stem scrolling extending into the inner margin at the beginning of each book; see Pächt and Alexander II, 106 no. pr. 4. Headings supplied in red; occasional smaller initials are supplied in red. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: ‘d. Hipp[olito]. della Casa n° xxxv’ on [b1r]. Paul Girardot de Préfond (†after c.1800); on the front pastedown, a small label of green leather inscribed: ‘Ex mus&ae;o Pauli Girardot de Prefond’. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label: see sale (1789), part III lot 5365 in annotated sale catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 590. Purchased through Payne for £51. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1790), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.3.
A-370 Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Opera.
A2r [Bussis], Johannes Andreas [de Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. See A-369. A6v Table of contents with incipits of each book. a1r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Metamorphoses sive De asino aureo. Incipit: ‘[A]t ego tibi sermone isto Milesio uarias fabulas conseram auresque tuas beniuolas lepido susurro permulceam . . .’ See A-369. l7r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Florida. See A-369. n3v Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘Apologiae siue defension[i]s magiae ad clarissimum virum Claudium Maximum proconsulem.’ See A-369. r3r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘De deo Socratis’, prologue. See A-369. r4r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘De deo Socratis.’ See A-369. s4r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De Platone, first book. ‘De dogmate Platonis.’ See A-369. t1r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De Platone, second book. ‘De philosophia.’ See A-369. u2r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De mundo. ‘Cosmographia siue de mundo ad Faustinum.’ See A-369. u13v Hermes Trismegistus [Asclepius.] Translated by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis [pseudo-]. See A-369. y6r [Balbus, Petrus, Bishop of Tropea Letter addressed to] Nicolaus de Cusa. ‘Episcopi Tropien[sis] ad Nicolaum Cunensem(!) cardinalem conuersio.’ Incipit: ‘[C]vm te intelligam, sapientissime atque optime patrum . . .’ y6r Alcinous;author [Albinus pseudo-] ‘Disciplinarum Platonis epitoma id est breuiarium.’ [Translated by Petrus Balbus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]ve sint propriissima Platonis documenta quaeue doctrina perbreuiter hinc ordinare . . .’ See A-151.
Vicenza: Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus, 9 Aug. 1488. Folio. A6 a–m8.6 n8 o–x8.6 y z & [con]6. GW 2302;HC *1316 (incl. C 531);Goff A-935;BMC VII 1047;Pr 7172;BSB-Ink A-659; CIBN A-493; Hillard 169; Rhodes 121; Sheppard 5935.
Copy Wanting the blank leaves A1 and [con]6. Binding: Italian eighteenth-century parchment; yellow-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 317 × 215 × 29 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 206 mm. Copious sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes, some cropped. Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); Morelli, III no. 7576: sale (1789), lot 12482. Purchased for £1. 7. 0; see annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1789), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.7.
A-371 Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Opera.
[1v] [Bussis, Johannes Andreas de Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. See A-369. [4v] Table of contents with incipits of each book. a1r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Metamorphoses sive De asino aureo. See A-369. i3r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Florida. See A-369. k4r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘Apologiae siue defensionis magiae ad clarissimum uirum Claudium Maximum proconsulem.’ See A-369. n5v Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘De deo Socratis’, prologue. See A-369. n6r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius ‘De deo Socratis.’ See A-369. o4r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De Platone, first book. ‘De dogmate Platonis.’ See A-369. p1v Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De Platone, second book. ‘De philosophia.’ See A-369. p6r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius De mundo. ‘Cosmographia siue de mundo ad Faustinum.’ See A-369. q4v Hermes Trismegistus [Asclepius.] Translated by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis [pseudo-]. Incipit: ‘[A]sclepius iste pro sole mihi est. Deus, deus te nobis, o Asclepi, ut diuino sermoni interesses adduxit . . .’ See A-369. r6r [Balbus, Petrus, Bishop of Tropea Letter addressed to] Nicolaus de Cusa. ‘Episcopi Tropien[sis] ad Nicolaum Cunensem(!) cardinalem conuersio.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um te intelligam, sapientissime atque optime patrum . . .’ r6r Alcinous;author [Albinus pseudo-] ‘Disciplinarum Platonis epitoma id est breuiarium.’ [Translated by Petrus Balbus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uae sint propriissima Platonis documenta queue doctrina perbreuiter hinc ordinare . . .’ See A-151.
Venice: Philippus Pincius, 30 Apr. 1493. Folio. [*4] a–t6. GW 2303;HC *1317;Goff A-936;BMC V 495;Pr 5297;BSB-Ink A-660; Oates 2069; Rhodes 122; Sheppard 4391.
Copy Bound with:&br;1. Paulus Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 30 July 1483 (O-029(2));&br;2. Pius II, Historia rerum ubique gestarum. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477 (P-330);&br;4. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, De primo bello Punico. Brescia: Jacobus Britannicus, 24 Oct. 1498 (B-569). Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; gilt chain type roll forms a border; gilt fillets on spine. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 290 × 215 × 55 mm. Size of leaf: 277 × 193 mm. On [*1r]: ‘Floruit ante Christum annis 335 aut post Christum 312′ in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. Provenance: Not in Fysher, Catalogus, but probably in the Library before 1757, from which date books were no longer chained. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.8(3).
A-372 Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Metamorphoseon libri (comm. Philippus Beroaldus).
A1r [Title-page to table of contents.] ‘Tabula Apulei’. A1r [Introduction addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Habes, lector humanissime, L. Apulei de Asino aureo tabulam uocabulorum . . .’ A1v ‘Tabula uocabulorum in libris de asino aureo.’ a1r [Title-page to the commentary.] a2r Beroaldus, Philippus [Letter addressed to] Petrus [Varadi], Archbishop of Colocza. Incipit: ‘[M]os fuit, antistes amplissime, statuas eorum publice dicar[i] qui aliqua illustri causa perpetuitatem meruissent . . .’ A1r Beroaldus, Philippus ‘In commentarios Apuleianos prefatio.’ Incipit: ‘[M]agica ars, quae in maxima fuit apud priscos dignatione, tres alias artes imperiosissimas humanae mentis complexa in unam se redegisse creditur . . .’ Appendix Appuleiana, Operum omnium tomus tertius (Leiden, 1823), 3-6. On the commentary by Beroaldus see Krautter ad indicem. A2r [Beroaldus, Philippus] ‘Vita Lucii Apuleiii summatim relata.’ Incipit: ‘[L]ucio Apuleio afro nobili Platonico patria fuit Madaura Romani Po[puli] colonia olim splendidissima . . .’ On the text see Krautter 56-60. A2v [Beroaldus, Philippus] ‘Scriptoris intentio atque consilium.’ Incipit: ‘In exponendis auctoribus id quoque spectari querique solet, quae fuerit scribentis intentio atque consilium . . .’ Appendix Appuleiana, 6-7. A2v [Beroaldus, Philippus] Commentary on the Asinus aureus. ‘Hypothesis siue argumentum primi libri.’ Incipit: ‘Lucius Apuleius magiae noscendae cupiens Thessaliam petit, ubi artes magicae pollebant. In itinere duobus uiatoribus se tertium comitem adiungit . . .’ Appendix Appuleiana, 8-140. A3r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius [Metamorphoses sive De asino aureo.] See A-369; with argumenta preceding each book and with commentary. XX4v ‘Finis commentariorum.’ Incipit: ‘[H]abes, antistes maxime, commentarios Apuleianos Philippea incude formatos . . .’ XX4v [Colophon.] XX5r [List of errata addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘[P]erlegi, lector optime, commentarios meos Apuleianos ex officina impressoris commodum exeuntes . . .’ XX5v Calcagninus, Coelius ‘Epigramma.’ ‘Exi lucidus undecumque Luci &pipe; Tersus, frugifer, elegans, rotundus’; 12 hendecasyllables. XX5v Beroaldus, Philippus ‘Endecasyllabon ad Asinum aureum.’ ‘I dextro pede, sidere et secundo &pipe; Foelix Pannoniam petas, aselle’; 21 hendecasyllables.
Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1 Aug. 1500. Folio. A B6 C a4 2A–Z & [con] [rum] AA–XX6. GW 2305;HC *1319;Goff A-938;BMC VI 845;Pr 6647;BSB-Ink A-657; Hillard 170; Oates 2503; Rhodes 124; Sack, Freiburg, 254; Sheppard 5399-400.
Copy Binding: Italian (Bologna, Benedictus Hectoris?), c.1503 half brown sheep over wooden boards bevelled inwards, the leather extending c.70 mm over the boards. Tooled in blind with a border tool formed of two three-line saltires joined to make a lozenge-shaped compartment containing a foliate cross. Remainder of the decoration hidden by nineteenth-century red leather with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. The red leather ‘repair’ presumably dates from soon after its acquisition by the Bodleian. Clasps, secured by two nails placed vertically, hinge on the upper cover. Yellow edges. Single yellow headbands. Sewn on three split thongs of white leather secured in grooves on the outside of the boards. Spine badly decayed, but apparently with three-line saltires. No pastedowns. One free endleaf at each end, no watermark. Spine reinforced between the bands by strips from parchment manuscripts. Same border-tool on Stockholm, Royal Library, Inc. 1009, Suetonius, Vitae Caesarum, cum commentariis Philippi Beroaldi, Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1493. See Albano Sorbelli, Storia della stampa in Bologna (Bologna, 1929), 56; and at 61 for the contract between Beroaldus and Hectoris for the printing and sale of this book; also Anthony Hobson and Leonardo Quaquarelli, Legature bolognesi del rinascimento (Bologna, 1998), 11-12. Size: 319 × 210 × 73 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 208 mm. Occasional marginal notes in the hand of Scheurl. Provenance: Christoph Scheurl (1481-1542); ‘Iste liber est mei Christoferi Schewrli Norenb[ergensis] quem emi Bon[oni&ae;] bon[oninis] 40 et ligaturam bon[oninis] 9 anno domini 1503′; coloured woodcut book-plate of Scheurl (School of Cranach, c.1540/1) on the front pastedown: Scheurl, with his two sons, Georg and Christoph, kneeling before a crucifix, in foreground an escutcheon with arms of Scheurl, and beside a smaller one with arms of Fütterer, the family of Scheurl’s wife; the woodcut is surrounded by type-set passages of scripture, at foot ‘Liber Christ[ophori] Scheurli I[uris] V[triusque] D[octoris] qui natus est 11 Nouemb[ris] 1481 &pipe; Filii uero Georg 19 April[is] 1532 & Christ[ophorus] 3 Augus[ti] [1535]’; see C. Dodgson, Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the British Museum, II 352 no. 7; Scheurl studied law in Bologna from 1498 to 1506; Philippus Beroaldus was one of his teachers; see Wilhelm Graf, Doktor Christoph Scheurl von Nürnberg, Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, 43 (Leipzig, 1930), 13-33; on lower edge inscription ‘198 Apuleius’; on front edge inscription ‘165 Apuleius’, which corresponds to the late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century Catalogus aller Bücher welche sich in der alten Christoph Scheurlischen Bibliotheque vorgefunden haben (Nuremberg, Scheurl private collection, XI B.3.b): see Wagner 72-4. Probably at one time in the possession of Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854) (note in his hand on a loose sheet in the volume), but not the copy in his sale. Purchased for £2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1826), 2; note on the endleaf. SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.20.
A-373 Apuleius Minor [pseudo-] De nota aspirationis et de diphthongis.
a1r Apuleius [Minor pseudo-;author Ricchieri, Ludovico Celio pseudo-] De nota aspirationis. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis aspirationis nota aut principalis est syllabarum aut terminalis aut media . . .’ Apuleius Minor, De orthographia fragmenta et Apuleii minoris De nota aspirationis et De diphthongis libri duo, ed. Fridericus Osann (Darmstadt, 1826), 87-119. The ascription to Apuleius is rejected by J. N. Madvig, ‘De L. Apuleii fragmentis de orthographia nuper inventis’, Opuscula academica, 2nd edn (Copenhagen, 1834), 1-38; Ricchieri is suggested by O. Crusius, ‘Entstehungszeit und Verfasser von Ps.-Apuleius De orthographia’, Philologus, 47 (1888), 434-48; the ascription to Ricchieri is rejected by C. Cessi, ‘Intorno al falsificatore del trattato “De orthographia” attribuito ad Apuleio’, Ateneo Veneto, II (1900), 42-55; also H. D. Jocelyn, ‘L. Caecilius Minutianus’, in Homo sapiens Homo humanus, I, ed. by G. Tarugi (Florence, 1990), 208-11; A. S. Hollis, ‘Apuleius’ De orthographia, Callimachus Fr. [815] Pf. and Euphorion 166 Meineke’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigrafik, 92 (1992), 109-14. b7v Apuleius [Minor pseudo-] De diphthongis. Incipit: ‘[D]iphthongi quibus ueteres utebantur Latini quattuor erant . . .’ Apuleius Minor, De orthographia fragmenta, ed. Osann, 120-46; see Laura Biondi, ‘Mai, Osann e Apuleius grammaticus: un Testi Antiquior del “de nota aspirationis” e del “De diphthongis”, ACME: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, 50/2 (1997), 65-108. d1r Phocas [pseudo-] De aspiratione. Keil, Grammatici Latini, V 439-41; Colette Jeudi, ‘La tradition manuscrite du De Aspiratione attribué au grammarien Phocas’, 197-15, edition at 212-5, but not listing this edition. e1r Guarinus Veronensis [De diphthongis; letter addressed to] Valerius Florus. Incipit: ‘[N]on sine causa factum esse certo scio, quod diphthonganda uocabula scire te uelle intelligo . . .’ See Sabbadini 48-49. [e10v] Table of contents. Incipit: ‘In hoc uolumine continentur Guarinus Veronensis de diphthongis, Apuleius de nota aspirationis et de diphthongis, Focas de aspiratione.’
[Milan: Johannes Antonius de Honate, c.1480]. 4°. a b8 c10 d4 e10. GW 2306;Goff A-939;Pr 5899;Sheppard 4923.
Copy Wanting e9. Leaf e10 is bound before e1, which from the position of the watermark appears to be its correct place. Gathering e is bound before a1; the order of the texts thus corresponds to the table of contents. Between d2 and d3 is bound another copy of a4.5 which lacks the signature on a4r. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 204 × 145 × 11 mm. Size of leaf: 197 × 139 mm. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. Epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Provenance: Purchased for £4. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 12, s. v. Guarinus Veronensis. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.36.
A-374 Arator In actus apostolorum, sive Historia apostolica.
a1v [Poem in praise of Arator.] ‘Versibus egregiis decursum clarus Arator &pipe; Carmen apostolicis cecinit insigne triumphis. &pipe; Historiamque priuo praeponens cautus vbique &pipe; Substituit typicae sensatim verba figurae. &pipe; Lingua canora bonum testatur adesse poetam &pipe; Misticus ingenium sic indicat ordo profundum’; 6 hexameters. a2r Arator [Letter addressed to] Abbot Florianus. ’PrlogoV tn praxwn pn(!) postlwn. Prologus actuum apostolornm(!).’ ‘[Q]ui meriti florem maturis sensibus ortum &pipe; Nominis ore tui iam, Floriane, renes.’ PL LXVIII 63-72. Arator, De actibus Apostolorum, ed. Arthur Patch McKinlay, CSEL 72 (Vienna, 1951), 1-2. a2v Arator [Letter addressed to] Vigilius. ‘[M]oenibus vndosis bellorum incendia cernens &pipe; Pars ego tunc populi taela pauentis eram.’ PL LXVIII 71-82. Arator, De actibus Apostolorum, ed. McKinlay, 3-5. a3r Arator ’PrxeiV tn gwn ka paneufmwn postlwn. Actus sanctorum et superbenedictorum apostolorum.’ ‘[V]t sceleris iudea sui polluta cruore &pipe; Ausa nefas compleuit opus rerumque creator.’ PL LXVII 83-246. Arator, De actibus Apostolorum, ed. McKinlay, 10-149; see CPL 1504. g5v [Verse to the reader.] ‘Cernis vt, o lector, sua carmina finit Arator &pipe; Littera stat suauis typicis intexta figuris.’
[Deventer: Richard Pafraet, c.1488]. 4°.As dated by HPT. a–c8 d6 e f8 g6. GW 2310;HC 1549;Goff A-941;Pr 9045;Campbell 167; HPT II 406; Sheppard 6963.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century French gold-tooled red morocco by Niedrée; marbled pastedowns. Size: 193 × 128 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 189 × 121 mm. Provenance: Purchased for £3. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1852), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.28.
A-375 Arbolaire. Le grant herbier en francois.
A2r [Table of contents.] D1r ‘L’exposition des mos obscurs et mal cognus par l’ordre des letters de a b c ec.’ D4v ‘Prologe.’ Incipit: ‘En ceste presente besongne en nostre propos et intention de traitier de simples medicines . . .’ D5v Arbolaire [French] Le grant herbier en francois. ‘Arbolayre contenant la qualitey et virtus, proprietey des herbes, arbres, gommes et semences extrait de pluseurs tratiers de medicine comment d’Auicenne, de Rasis, de Constantin de Ysaac et Plateaire selon le connun vsaige bien correct.’ Incipit: ‘[A]loen est de chaude et seche complexion ou second degr[ee]. Aloen est du ius d’une herbe que en a insi appellee aloen . . .’ See Joseph Frank Payne, ‘On the Herbarius and Hortus Sanitatis’, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 6 (1901), 63-126, at 101-5, Arnold C. Klebs, ‘Incunabula Lists. I. Herbals’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 12 (1918), 41-57, at 52 and Agnes Arber, Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution. A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670, 3rd edn (Cambridge, 1986), 26. Identified as a translation of the Latin Liber de simplici medicina, known as Circa instans, in Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 (London, 1975), I 6. Early Herbals, 54. See also note to CIBN A-496.
[Besançla;on: Peter Metlinger, c.1486-8]. Folio.Pellechet assigned to [Lyons: Jacques Maillet]. A8 B C6 D E8 F6 G H8 I6 K8 L6 M N8 O6 P–X8 Y10 Aa–Ff8. On A1v a woodcut with a dedication scene; 307 woodcuts and woodcut initials. GW 2312;C 584;Goff A-944;CIBN A-496; Claudin IV 479–485; Sheppard 6832.
Copy Wanting the blank leaf Ff8. Binding: Nineteenth-century half pigskin. Size: 280 × 203 × 42 mm. Size of leaf: 259 × 196 mm. Seven leaves with medicinal notes in the hand of Badoulleau in French and Latin in a seventeenth-century(?) hand bound before A1. Marginal notes and foliation by the same hand throughout. Provenance: [ ] Badoulleau (fl. 1761); ‘Ex libris Badoulleau 1761′ on A1r. William Pamplin (1806-1899). Purchased by the Radcliffe Library from Pamplin in 1847; manuscript addition to Radcliffe Catalogue (1835) for 1847: listed as ‘Arbolayre qualitey des herbes’, with shelfmark 23.C.2.1. Transferred to the Bodleian after 1861. Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: 23.C.2.1; G.143.N.2. SHELFMARK: RR.w.469 [RSL].
A-376 Argellata, Petrus de Chirurgia.
A1v Moretus, Matthaeus [Letter addressed to] Benedictus Januensis. A2r [Table of contents.] a2r Argellata, Petrus de Chirurgia. Edited by Matthaeus Moretus. Incipit: ‘[R]ogauerunt me socii mei, ut secundum quod legerem eis terciam et quartam fen. quarti canonis Auicenne receptas ordinare . . .’ The author is here named as ‘Lacerlata’. y5v [Colophon with note on editor.]
Venice: Benedictus Genuensis, 9 Aug. 1480. Folio. A6 a10 b c8 d10 e f8 g h10 i–l8 m10 n–u8 x y6. GW 2321;HR 1635;Goff A-951;BMC XII 21;Pr 4596;CIBN A-499; Osler, IM, 195; Rhodes 127; Sheppard 3723.
Copy Wanting leaf A1 and the blank leaves A6 and a1. Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century English pasteboards: endpapers with ‘Pro patria’ watermark; see Heawood nos 3696-718. Size: 298 × 220 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 289 × 200 mm. In gathering A occasional marginal notes in various early hands. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; running headings in red in gatherings A–e; red capital strokes and underlining. Provenance: On spine old label with shelfmark ‘Vet. Imp. III. fol. 2′. Purchased for £1. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 10. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 3.13.
A-377 Argellata, Petrus de Chirurgia.
A2r Argellata, Petrus de Chirurgia. [Edited by Matthaeus Moretus(?)]. Incipit: ‘[R]ogauerunt me socii mei, ut secundum quod legerem eis terciam et quartam fen. quarti canonis Auicenne receptas ordinarem . . .’ The author is here named as ‘Largelata’. R3r [Table of contents.]
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 22 Feb. 1497/8. Folio. A–P8 Q R6. GW 2323;HCR 1637;Goff A-953;BMC V 449;Pr 5077;CIBN A-501; IGI 785; Oates 1995; Rhodes, 128; Sheppard 4232.
Copy Bound with:&br;2. Paulus Venetus, Expositio in Aristotelem De generatione et corruptione. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 21 May 1498 (P-058). Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. Red-edged leaves. Size: 306 × 215 × 42 mm. Size of leaf: 296 × 197 mm. Provenance: Item 2 possibly the copy mentioned in the Benefactors’ Register I 63, bought with money given by Martin Heton (1552-1609), Bishop of Ely, in 1603. Item 1 probably in the Bodleian by 1620: a copy appears in James, Catalogus (1620), 284 (undated) with shelfmark O 11.12 Art; definitely in the Bodleian by 1674: see Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 386, with shelfmark O 1.12 Art, dated 1497. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.6(1).
A-378 Argellata, Petrus de Chirurgia.
A2r Argellata, Petrus de Chirurgia. [Edited by Matthaeus Moretus(?)]. Incipit: ‘[R]ogauerunt me socii mei, ut secundum quod legerem eis terciam et quartam fen. quarti canonis Auicenne receptas ordinarem . . .’ The author is here named as ‘Largelata’. R3r [Table of contents.]
Venice: [Printer of Argellata, ‘Chirurgia’ (H 1636)], with Johann Hamman’s types, 12 Sept. 1499. Folio. A–P8 Q R6. GW 2324;HC(+ Addenda) R 1639;Goff A-954;BMC V 588;Pr 5703;BSB-Ink A-669; Sheppard 4755.
Copy Wanting the blank leaf R6. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 300 × 213 × 25 mm. Size of leaf: 293 × 193 mm. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; possibly the copy mentioned in the Benefactors’ Register I 16 as given in 1600 by William Gent (fl. 1562-1611), dated 1494; see James, Catalogus (1605), 201, with shelfmark C 1.10 [Med.]; James, Catalogus (1620), 284, as C 1.10 [Med.]; definitely in Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 386, as C 1.8 Med. dated 1499; see also Jensen, ‘Benefactors’ Register’, no. 42. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 2Q 4.17. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.10.
A-379 Argumenta Tria et sexaginta in Priscianum cum solutionibus argumenta.
[a1r] ‘Tria et sexaginta in Priscianum cum solutionibus argumenta.’ Incipit: ‘[P]riscianus: Vox est aer tenuissimus ictus. Contra: Si aer corpus est, corpus uero uideri et tangi potest, hoc in uoce falsum est. Solutio: Vox est aer, id est habet esse per aerem. Priscianus: Littera est uox, quae scribi potest indiuidua. Contra: Littera est nota elementi nota, id est figura uox non est amplius figura diuidi potest. Solutio: Litteram posuit pro elemento. Amplius indiuidua. Contra: Scripsit in constructionibus elementum diuiditur in duo. Solutio: Ibi diuiditur significat soluitur ut fieri pro firi . . . lxiii. Pricianus: Adiectiua nomina in nullo deficiunt casu ergo quantus haberet uocatiuum. Solutio: Stricte intellexit que comparantur scilicet addiectiua.’ Quaestiones on Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae.
[Milan: Simon Magniagus, c.1485]. 4°.Proctor assigns to [Casal di San Vaso: Antonius de Corsiono] (cf. BMC VI p. xxviii). [a8]. GW 2325;H 1640;Pr 7273;Sheppard 4979.
Copy Bound with:&br;2. Priscianus, De octo partibus orationis. Milan?: Simon Magniagus, c.1485;&br;3. Philippus Beroaldus, Annotationes in commentarios Servii vergilianos. Milan: Simon Magniagus?, c.1483-5. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß. Size: 210 × 155 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 138 mm. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; see sale (1835), lot 3027. Purchased for £0. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 23, described as a Bologna edition. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.35(1).
A-380 Argumentum Belli Causas Exponens
[a1r] ‘Argumentum exorti inter clarissimum Venetorum dominium ducemque Ferrariensem belli causas exponens.’ Incipit: ‘[H]ercules dux Ferarie in eo ducatu Venetorum armis constitutus paulopost vetustissimas eorum uiolat immunitates . . .’ [a1v] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. [Letter addressed to] Johannes Mocenicus, Doge of Venice. Incipit: ‘[D]ilecte fili, Salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Ut primum ad apicem summi apostolatus diuina ita disponente clemencia meritis licet insufficientibus fuimus euecti . . .’ Text dated 11 Dec. 1482. [a2v] Justinianus, Bernardus ‘Pro illustrissimo Venet[iarum] sena[tu] ad Xistum quartum pontificem maximum responsio.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ccepimus breue sanctitatis uestre qua decuit et semper consueuimus reuerentia et deuotione . . .’ Text dated 12 Jan. 1482/3. [a5r] [Letter from the cardinals of the Roman Church to the Senate of Venice.] Incipit: ‘[M]iseratione diuina episcopi, presbiteri, diaconi sanctae Romanae ecclesiae cardinales illustrissimo principi domino duci Veneciarum post sinceram in domino karitatem. Quantum sanctissimus dominus noster nosque pacem et quietem Italie semper non solum dilexerimus . . .’ [a6r] Justinianus, Bernardus ‘Ad sacrum cardinalium collegium responsio.’ Incipit: ‘[R]eddite sunt nobis littere dominationum vestrarum, reuerendissimi in Christo patres et domini, in causa Ferrariensi, que tametsi tota propter illius principis in nos ingratitudinem et iniurias acerbissima est . . .’ Text dated 12 Jan. 1482/3.
[Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis, after 12 Jan. 1482/3]. 4°. [a6]. Leaves numbered at head of each recto, but not signed. GW 2326;HR 1641; C 5964;Goff A-955;BMC VII 920;Pr 6810;BSB-Ink A-670; Oates 2558; Sheppard 5598.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century German(?) pasteboards covered with leaves from a parchment sacramentary in Latin, dyed dark blue. Size: 217 × 152 × 12 mm. Size of leaf: 201 × 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased for £0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1842), 43. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.64.
A-381 Aristeas Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus.
[a2r] [Palmerius Pisanus], Mathias [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[C]um et antea, semper beatissime pontifex, intellexerim, sanctitatem tuam in perquirendis maiorum nostrorum splendidis gestis dignis mirifice oblectam . . .’ On the dedication see Giovanni Mercati, Codici Latini Pico Grimani Pio, Studi e Testi, 75 (Vatican City, 1938), 288 and Edoardo Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane del quattrocento e del cinquecento, 2 vols (Milan, 1992), I 200-1. [a3r] Aristeas [pseudo-] ‘Ad Philocratem fratrem.’ Translated by Mathias Palmerius Pisanus, as stated in the colophon. Incipit: ‘[C]um permagni semper feceris, Philocrates, eiusque rei cognitione mireque discendi amore tenearis . . .’ Marguerin de la Bigne, Biblotheca magna ueterum patrum, I (Cologne, 1618), 1-12. On the Greek text see J.-G. Février, La date, la composition et les sources de la lettre d’Aristée à Philocrate, Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, 242 (Paris, 1924); see also TRE III 719-25 and O. Eissfeldt, Einleitung in das Alte Testament (Tübingen, 1964), 817-21.
Naples: Arnaldus de Bruxella, 8 Feb. 1474. 4°. [a–e8]. GW 2331;H 1654;BMC VI 858;Pr 6687;Fava–Bresciano 84; Oates 2511; Sheppard 5425.
Copy Bound with:&br;2. Nicolaus Sagundinus, De epistolari dicendi genere. Naples: Arnaldus de Bruxella, c.1472. Wanting the blank leaf [e8]. Binding: Half red morocco, tooled with small upright floral gilt tools in the panels, the bands outlined with simple horizontal fillets; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 241 × 164 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 234 × 158 mm. Faded sixteenth-century marginal notes. Provenance: Giacomo Lucchesini (1753-1820); erased signature on front pastedown. Giuseppe Molini; oval ticket with the head of Dante on front pastedown. Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823); sale (1824), lot 274. Purchased for £10. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1824), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 4.37(1).
A-382 Aristeas Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus.
a2r [Palmerius Pisanus, Mathias Letter addressed to Bartolomeus Malipierus, Bishop of Brescia.] Incipit: ‘[H]ieronimus, cuius ingenium semper admiror, cum multa in ecclesia preclara egisset sanctitate et sapiencia . . .’ On the dedication see Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum, I 355, who describes Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, MS. A D X 3, and Mercati, Codici Latini Pico Grimani Pio, 288; also Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane, I 200-1. a3r Aristeas [pseudo-] ‘Tractatulus de lxxii interpretibus et de eorundem maxima sapientia ac nominibus.’ [Translated by Mathias Palmerius Pisanus.] Incipit: ‘[C]um permagnam semper feceris, Philocrates, cuiusque rei cognitionem miroque discendi amore tenearis . . .’ See A-381. d7v [Burlaeus, Gualterus] De vita et moribus philosophorum. ‘In libro quodam qui describit vitam philosophorum sic inuenitur.’ Gualterus Burlaeus, Liber De vita et moribus philosophorum, ed. Hermann Knust, Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 177 (Tübingen, 1886), 296-302; but see J. Prelog, ‘Die Handschriften und Drucke von Walter Burleys Liber de uita et moribus philosophorum’, Codices manuscripti, 9 (1983), 1-18, and his edition of the section ‘De Pictagora phylosopho’, Medioevo, 16 (190), 191-51; also M. Grignaschi, ‘Lo pseudo-Walter Burley e il Libro de uita et moribus philosophorum’, Medioevo, 16 (1990), 131-90; Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1902.
Erfurt: [Printer of ‘Aristeas’, 14]83. 4°. a–d8. GW 2332;HC *1655;Goff A-957;BMC II 590;Pr 3102;BSB-Ink A-672; Oates 1312; Sheppard 1988.
Copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century cream pasteboards. Size: 204 × 154 × 9 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 146 mm. On a1r two recipes in Low German. Provenance: Purchased in 1897; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 10 May 1898, 466. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. G25.1483.1.
A-383 Aristophanes Comoediae novem [Greek].
[1r] [Antipater Thessalonicensis] pgramma eV ristojnh. ‘Bbloi ristojneuV, qeoV pnoV, asin carneV‘; 3 elegiac distichs. Anthologia Palatina, Epigram 186, in Anthologie Grècque, première partie, ed. P. Waltz, 13 vols (Paris, 1928- ), VII (9) 186; Botfield, 218; Legrand, Bibl. hell., I 45-6. [1v] Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius [Letter addressed to] Daniel Clarius Parmensis. Dated Venice, 13 July 1498. Legrand, Bibl. hell., I 46-7; Botfield, 218-19; Aldo Manuzio editore, 23-4 no. XIV. [2r] Musurus, Marcus [Letter addressed to the reader.] Legrand, Bibl. hell., I 47-9; Botfield, 219-21. For Musurus’ editorial contribution and his manuscript sources see Martin Sicherl, ‘Die Editio princeps des Aristophanes’, Das Buch und sein Haus, I: Erlesenes aus der Welt des Buches, Festschrift für G. Liebers, ed. R. Fuhlrott and B. Haller (Wiesbaden, 1979), 189-231, at 192-231. [2v] Carteromachus, Scipio [Epigram to Aldus Manutius.] ss tn protrwn pleouV pot tndrV jento‘; 4 elegiac distichs. Legrand, Bibl. hell., I 49-50; Botfield, 221. [3r] Hephaistion [pseudo-] ‘k to gxeiridou faistwnoV pitom tn nna mtrwn.’ Ole Langwitz Smith, Studies in the Scholia on Aeschylus, i: The Recensions of Demetrius Triclinius, Mnemosyne, Supplement, 37 (Leiden, 1975), 253-5, ‘the Triclinean Prefatory Treatises’. The ascription to Triclinius is doubted in Scholia in Aristophanem, i 1a: Prolegomena de comoedia, ed. W. J. W. Koster (Groningen, 1975), 51: see pp. xxiv–xxvi for the manuscript sources of the prolegomena used for this edition. [3v] Demetrius Triclinius [Per mtrwn]. Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 55-6, no. xiv 1. [4r] Demetrius Triclinius ‘Per shmewn tV koinV sullabV tn ntV keimnwn tV bblou.’ Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 57-9, no. xiv 2. [4r] Platonius ‘Per diajorV kwmdin’ [excerpts]. Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 3-6, no. i. [5r] Platonius ‘Per diajorV caraktrwn.’ Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 6-7, no. ii. [5r] ‘Per kwmdaV‘ [De comoedia.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 13-15, no. v. [5v] ‘Per kwmdaV‘ [De comoedia.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 15-16, no. vi. [5v] [De choro.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 17-18 no. vii. [5v] ‘Tn tV rcaaV kwmdaV poihtn nmata ka drmata’. Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 18 no. viii. [5v] [De hellenismo et atticismo.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 19 no. ix. [6r] ‘ristojnouV boV’. [Aristophanis Vita.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 133-6, no. xxviii. [6v] [De Choro.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 19-20, no, Xa. [6v] [De histrionibus.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 21, no. Xc. [6v] [De partibus.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 21, no. Xd. [6v] ‘Per kwmdaV‘ [De comoedia.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 7-10, no. iii. [7v] ‘Per kwmdaV‘ [De comoedia.] Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 11-12, no. iv. [7v] Thomas Magister ‘SnoyiV to te bou ristojnouV, ka tV to drmatoV poqsewV.’ Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 146-7, no. xxxiii 1; with 149, no. xxxiii 2. [8r] Thomas Magister [pseudo-] ‘pqesiV to parntoV drmatoV‘; [Argumentum Pluti]. Aristophanes, Comoediae ed. W. T. Bergk, 2 vols (Leipzig, 1892-7), II 279, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, Comoediae, ed. F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, 2 vols (Oxford, 1906, repr. 1945), II, hypothesis i. Ascribed to Thomas Magister in the heading to the preceding item. [8r] [Argumentum Pluti.] Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 279-80, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, Comoediae, ed. V. Coulon, and tr. H. Van Daele, 5 vols (Paris, 1923-30), V 85, hypothesis i. [8v] [Argumentum Pluti.] Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 280, hypothesis iii and iv; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis iii and iv; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, V 85-6, hypothesis ii and iii. [8v] Aristophanes Grammaticus [Argumentum Pluti.] ‘Manteetai dkaioV n tiV ka pnhV‘; 10 lines of iambic verse. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 281, Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, V 86-7, hypothesis iv. Aristophanes Grammaticus’ authorship of this and the following metrical argumenta is generally disputed: see A. L. Brown, ‘The Dramatic Synopses attributed to Aristophanes of Byzantium’, Classical Quarterly, NS 37 (1987), 427; see, however, W. J. W. Koster, ‘De Aristophane Byzantio argumentorum metricorum auctore’, in F. Novotny and R. Hosek, Charisteria Francisco Novotny octogenario oblata, Spisy University J.E. Purkyne v Brnem Filozofická fakulta, 90 (Prague, 1962), 43-50. [8v] ‘T to drmatoV prswpa.’ [List of dramatis personae for Plutus.] a1r Aristophanes PlotoV [Plutus]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 282-325; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, V 89-147. a1r [Scholia on the Plutus.] Partly edited in Scholia in Aristophanis Plutum et Nubes vetera, Thomas Magistri, Demetrii Triclinii nec non anonyma recentiora partim inedita, ed. W. J. W. Koster (Leiden, 1927), 1-43. e1r ‘Nejeln proqewra’ [Argumentum Nubium, I]. Scholia in Aristophanem, i 3, 1: Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. D. Holwerda (Groningen, 1977), 1, A1; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 160, hypothesis iii; partly Prolegomena, ed. Koster, 17-18, no. vii. The ‘De choro’ passage, ‘ corV kwmikV . . .’, from [*5v] is reprinted with minor variations. On the manuscripts used for the prolegomena and scholia of the Nubes in this edition see Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, pp. xxvi–xxvii. e1r [Argumentum Nubium, II.] Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, 2, A2; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 107-8, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 161, hypothesis v: see also Appendix ii to Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda: Variae lectiones codicum Cr V57 Ps et editionis Aldinae in argumentis veteribus, ed. W. J. W. Koster, 286-7. e1r [Argumentum Nubium, V.] Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, 3-4, A5; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 108, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 158, hypothesis i: see also Appendix ii to Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda: Variae lectiones codicum Cr V57 Ps, ed. Koster, 287. e1r [Argumentum Nubium, IV.] ’Patr tn un swkratzein protrpetai’. Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, 2-3, A4; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 109, hypothesis iv; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis iv; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 159, hypothesis ii: see also Appendix ii to Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda: Variae lectiones codicum Cr V57 Ps, ed. Koster, 287. Ten lines of verse, here printed as prose, but preceded by the words ‘llwV. Di stcwn’. The first word of each new verse is capitalized. e1v [Argumentum Nubium, VI with: Argumentum Nubium VII.] Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, 4, A6 with: 4-5, A7; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 109, hypothesis v with i 109, hypothesis vi; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis v with vi; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 161-2, hypothesis vi and vii: see also Appendix ii to Scholia vetera in Nubes (1977): Variae lectiones codicum Cr V57 Ps, ed. Koster, 287. e1v [Argumentum Nubium, VIII]. Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, 5, A8; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 110, hypothesis vii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis vii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 160, hypothesis iv: see also Appendix ii to Scholia vetera in Nubes (1977): Variae lectiones codicum Cr V57 Ps, ed. Koster, 287. e1v Thomas Magister [Argumentum Nubium, Ia]. Scholia in Aristophanem, i 3, 2: Scholia recentiora in Nubes, ed. W. J. W. Koster (Groningen, 1974), 8-9, 1a; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 110, hypothesis viii. e1v ‘T to drmatoV prswpa.’ [List of dramatis personae for Nubes.] Scholia recentiora in Nubes, ed. Koster, 13, see also Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, Appendix ii: Variae lectiones codicum Cr V57 Ps, ed. Koster, 287. e1v [Scholia on the Nubes.] Scholia recentiora in Nubes, ed. Koster, 14 (Ib); Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, 7-250; Appendix I: scholia scholiorumque partes editionis Aldinae propriae, ed. W. J. W. Koster, 251-82; Scholia recentiora in Nubes, ed. Koster. The opening passage of the scholia. e2r Aristophanes Nejlai [Nubes]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 114-70; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 164-230. e2r [Scholia on the Nubes.] Incipit: ‘o o . Scetliastikn prrhma . . .’ Scholia vetera in Nubes, ed. Holwerda, 7-250; Appendix I: Scholia scholiorumque partes, ed. Koster, 251-82; Scholia recentiora in Nubes, ed. Koster. The continuation of the scholia printed separately on e1v in this edition. l1r Thomas Magister ‘Batrcwn pqesiV’ [Argumentum Ranarum]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 170-1, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis iii. l1r [Argumentum Ranarum.] Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 169-70, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, IV 81, hypothesis i. l1v ‘SkopV to parntoV drmatoV‘; [Argumentum Ranarum]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 171-2, hypothesis iv; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis iv. l2r [Aristophanes Grammaticus] ‘Batrcwn pqesin di stcwn.’ ‘Maqn par’ raklouV DinusoV tn dn‘; 10 lines of iambic verse. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, ii 170, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, IV 83, hypothesis ii. l2v ‘ esqesiV to drmatoV eqV x moibwn prospwn rcetai . . .’ An introductory passage to the scholia, not included in modern editions, but analogous to those found with the scholia to the other comedies. l2v ‘T to drmatoV prswpa’. [List of dramatis personae for Ranae.] l3r Aristophanes Btracoi [Ranae]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 173-228; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, IV 85-157. l3r [Scholia on the Ranae.] ed. G. Dindorf (Oxford 1838), IV 2, 9-159. p1r ‘pqesiV ppwn’ [Argumentum Equitum]. Scholia in Aristophanem, i 2: Scholia vetera in Aristophanis Equites, ed. D. Mervyn Jones. Scholia Tricliniana in Aristophanis Equites, ed. N. G. Wilson (Groningen and Amsterdam, 1969), 1-2, A1; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 49-50, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 75-6, hypothesis i, 1. On the manuscripts used for the scholia and prolegomena of the Nubes in this edition see Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, pp. xviii–xix. p1r [Argumentum Equitum.] Incipit: ‘ skopV at prV t kaqelen Klwna . . .’ Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, 2, A2; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 50, part of hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, part of hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 76-7, hypothesis i, 2. p1r [Argumentum Equitum.] Incipit: ‘oiken prologzwn DhmosqnhV . . .’ Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, 2-3, A3; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 50, part of hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, part of hypothesis ii (2); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 77, hypothesis i, 3. p1r Aristophanes Grammaticus [Argumentum Equitum.] ‘Pargei tin Klwna tn kalomenon‘; 10 lines of iambic verse. Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, 3-4, A6; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 51, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 78, hypothesis 2. Here printed as prose and regarded as one piece with the following two prose items. p1v [Argumentum Equitum.] Incipit: ‘didcqh to drma p StratoklouV rcontoV . . .’ Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, 3, A5; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 50, part of hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, part of hypothesis ii (4); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 75-6, hypothesis i, 5. Here printed as part of the preceding item. p1v [Argumentum Equitum.] Incipit: ‘ston ti eV d&revnot; mrh dirhto dmoV tn qhnawn . . .’ Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, 3, A4; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 50, part of hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, part of hypothesis ii (3); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 77, hypothesis i, 4. p1v ‘T to drmatoV prswpa’. [List of dramatis personae for Equites.] p1v [Scholia on the Equites.] Incipit: ‘ esqesiV to parntoV drmatoV, eqV x moibawn prospwn rcetai‘ . . . ‘p d t tlei to teleutaou stcou korwnV.’ Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, 5 (Ib): the opening passage of the scholia. p2r Aristophanes ‘ppV’ [Equites]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 52-104; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 80-141. p2r [Scholia on the Equites.] Incipit: ‘attataix. Scetliasmn dhlo at te toto ka t xV . . .’ Scholia vetera in Equites, ed. Jones, 5-277: the continuation of the scholia printed separately on p1v in this edition. c1r ‘pqesiV‘; [Argumentum Acharnensium]. Incipit: ‘kklhsa jsthken qnhsin n t janer . . . ka k pantV trpou tn ernhn prokalomenon.’ Scholia in Aristophanem, i, 1b: Scholia in Aristophanis Acharnenses, ed. N. G. Wilson (Groningen, 1975), 1-2, part of hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 3-4, part of hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, part of hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 8-9, hypothesis i, lines 1-37. c1r Aristophanes Grammaticus ‘Diambewn’ [Argumentum Acharnensium]. ‘kklhsaV oshV paraggnonta tineV.’ Scholia in Acharnenses, ed. Wilson, 2, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 4, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 10, hypothesis ii. Ten iambic distichs. c1r [Argumentum Acharnensium.] Incipit: ‘didcqh p EqumnouV rcontoV . . .’ Scholia in Acharnenses (1975), 2, lines 3-5, part of hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 4, part of hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, lines 32-4 of hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 10, hypothesis i, lines 37-40. c1v ‘T to drmatoV prswpa.’ [List of dramatis personae for Acharnenses.] c1v [Scholia on the Acharnenses.] Scholia in Acharnenses, ed. Wilson, iii, 1a: the opening passage of the scholia. c2r Aristophanes ‘carnV’ [Acharnenses]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 5-45; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, I 12-66. c2r [Scholia on the Acharnenses.] Scholia in Acharnenses, ed. Wilson, 3-150: the continuation of the scholia printed separately on p1v in this edition. B1r Aristophanes Grammaticus ‘Sjhkn pqesiV dia stcwn mbwn ’ [Argumentum Vesparum]. ‘Filonta dikzein patra paV erxaV jnw.’ Scholia in Aristophanem, ii 1: Scholia vetera et recentiora in Aristophanis Vespas, ed. W. J. W. Koster (Groningen, 1978), 3, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 174, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, II 14-15, hypothesis ii. Ten iambic distichs. For the manuscript sources used for the scholia and prolegomena of the Vespae in this edition see Scholia in Vespas, pp. xxxi–xxxv. B1r [Argumentum Vesparum.] Scholia in Vespas, ed. Koster, 4-6, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 173-4, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, II 13-14, hypothesis i. B1v ‘T to drmatoV prswpa.’ [List of dramatis personae for Vespae.] Scholia in Vespas, ed. Koster, 7. B2r Aristophanes SjkeV [Vespae]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 175-234; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, II 17-84. B2r [Scholia on the Vespae.] Scholia in Vespas, ed. Koster, 8-238. H1r Aristophanes Grammaticus ‘rnqwn pqesiV dia stcwn mbwn ’ [Argumentum Avium]. ‘Di tV dkaV jegousin qnaV do tinV‘; 10 lines of iambic distichs, here printed as continuous prose; however, the first word of each new verse is capitalized and in two cases spacing indicates the division of a new verse. The Scholia on the Aves of Aristophanes, ed. J. W. White (Boston and London, 1914), 2 (i) and 3 (i); Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 5, hypothesis iv; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis iv; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, III 21, hypothesis iv. H1r [Argumentum Avium.] Scholia on the Aves, 2. 4 (ii) and 3.5 (ii); Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 5, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, III 20, hypothesis iii. H1r [Argumentum Avium.] Scholia on the Aves, 4 (iii) and 5 (iii); Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 3, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, III 17, hypothesis i. H1r [Argumentum Avium.] Scholia on the Aves, 4.6.8 (iv) and 5.7.9 (iv); Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 3-4, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, III 18, hypothesis ii. H1v ‘T to drmatoV prswpa.’ [List of dramatis personae for Aves.] H2r Aristophanes rniqeV [Aves]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 6-70; Aristophanes ed. Hall–Geldart, I (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, III 23-108. H2r [Scholia on the Aves.] The Scholia on the Aves, 10-303: see also 304-18. M4v Musurus, Marcus [Colophon.] Incipit: ‘ristojnouV kwmdin pt ka tn scolwn rcaoiV sunteqntwn grammatikoV . . .’ See N. G. Wilson, ‘The Triclinian Edition of Aristophanes’, Classical Quarterly, NS 12 (1962), 32-47, 35 for the suggestion that the presence of this colophon indicates that the first manuscript available to Musurus contained only seven comedies, and that a further manuscript was found after the printing of this work had begun. See also Sicherl, ‘Editio princeps des Aristophanes’, 190. N1r ‘pqesiV ErnhV’ [Argumentum Pacis]. Scholia in Aristophanem, ii 2: Scholia vetera et recentiora in Aristophanis Pacem, ed. D. Holwerda (Groningen, 1982), 1, A1; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 238-9, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, II 94, hypothesis i. On the manuscripts used for the scholia and prolegomena to the Pax of this edition see Scholia in Pacem, ed. Holwerda, pp. xx–xxi. N1r [Argumentum Pacis.] Scholia in Pacem, ed. Holwerda, 1, A2; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 239, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis iii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, II 95, hypothesis ii. N1r [Argumentum Pacis.] Scholia in Pacem, ed. Holwerda, 2-3, A3; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 237-8, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, I, hypothesis i. For the shortened version printed here see Holwerda’s apparatus criticus, p. 2, with the comment: ‘Aldus plane a codicibus abhorret sic scribens.’ N1v ‘T to drmatoV prswpa.’ [List of dramatis personae for Pax.] N2r Aristophanes Ernh [Pax]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, I 240-87; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, i (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, II 99-156. N2r [Scholia on the Pax.] Scholia in Aristophanem, ii 2: Scholia vetera et recentiora in Aristophanis Pacem, ed. D. Holwerda (Groningen, 1982), 6-182. R1r Aristophanes Grammaticus ‘pqesiV’ [Argumentum Ecclesiazusarum]. ‘n toV SkroiV t gnai’ krine stolaV‘; 10 iambic distichs, but here printed as continuous prose; as printed, the text does not scan. ed. Dindorf, IV 3, 284, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 231, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis ii; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, V 13, hypothesis ii. R1r [Argumentum Ecclesiazusarum.] ed. Dindorf, IV 3, 284, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 231, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II, hypothesis i; Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, V 13, hypothesis i. R1r ‘T to drmatoV prswpa.’ [List of dramatis personae for Ecclesiazusae.] R1v Aristophanes kklhsizousai [Ecclesiazusae]. Aristophanes, ed. Bergk, II 232-76; Aristophanes, ed. Hall–Geldart, II (no pagination); Aristophanes, ed. Coulon, V 15-70. R1v [Scholia on the Ecclesiazusae.] ed. Dindorf , IV 3, 285-309. T5v [Publicity statement, following registrum and colophon.] Incipit: ‘In hoc idem quod in aliis nostris impetrauimus . . .’
Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, 15 July 1498. Folio. [8] a–g8 d10 e–k8 l–x8 o10 p–-u8 j6 c–w A8 B–E8 Z6 H–L8 M4 N–O8 p10 RS8 T6.Gathering [] numbered but not signed. Leaf S4 is signed Siii. GW 2333;HC *1656;Goff A-958;BMC V 559;Pr 5566;BSB-Ink A-673; CIBN A-503; Essling 1163; Hillard 174; Oates 2183; Rhodes 129; Sander 580; Scapecchi, ‘Annali’, 26; Sheppard 4649-51; A Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA: I: The Publications of Aldus Manutius the Elder (Los Angeles, 1989), 22.
First copy Wanting the blank leaf T6. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; upper board detached. Size: 323 × 226 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 313 × 206 mm. Some passages in the first two comedies and in the ‘Pax’ marked or underlined. Provenance: James St Amand (1687-1754); manuscript catalogue, fol. 11 no. 176. Bequeathed in 1754. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1R 3.1. Second copy Wanting the second sheet of gathering Y, instead of which is bound a duplicate of the first. Tear on leaf 1 and T5 damaged, both with loss to text. Wanting the blank leaf T6. Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century English brown calf; on both covers a border of five fillets, the middle in gold; gilt tool of four acorns repeated in the compartments of the spine. Size: 320 × 227 × 66 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 210 mm. Sixteenth-century and later notes in Latin and Greek in the first half of the volume. Provenance: Possibly the copy mentioned in the Benefactors’ Register I 23, given in 1601 by John Fortescue (1531?–1607); see James, Catalogus (1605), 277; Jensen, ‘Benefactors’ Register’, no. 48. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: A 3.16 Art; G 8.14 Art. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1R 3.2. Third copy Wanting the blank leaf T6. Binding: Seventeenth-century gold-tooled parchment with arabesque centre-piece. Size: 311 × 208 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 306 × 197 mm. Occasional notes in Greek in two different hands in the beginning of the ‘Plutus’. Provenance: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909); inscription on endleaf dated 1872. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, 295. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. A 4.8.
A-384 Aristoteles Opera [Greek].
Part I. A1r ‘EV rganon ristotlouV. nnumon.’ ‘0.6 mmd&revnot; bbloV ristotlouV logikV paidehV‘; 4 hexameters. Anthologiae Graecae Appendix, caput iii, 211; Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus, iii, ed. E. Cougny (Paris, 1890), 325-6. On A1v in this edition, Aldus states that the epigram was found by him ‘in antiquo codice’. See L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Attività filosofico-editoriale Aristotelica dell’umanesimo’, Umanesimo Europeo e Umanesimo Veneziano. Civiltà Europea e Civiltà Veneziana: aspetti e problemi 2 (Florence, 1963), 245-62, repr. in Opuscula, 483-500, at 492-3. A1r Carteromachus, Scipio ‘GahV k muctwn, tn prn pote ksmon pollV‘; 2 elegiac distichs. Botfield, 195; A. Firmin-Didot Alde Manuce et l’hellénisme à Venise, (Paris, 1875) 70-1. A1r Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius ‘ldou Manoukou BasiannoV eV jlouV.’ ‘Mousawn floi d&revnot; retV ka meo jl’ ldou‘; 6 elegiac distichs. Botfield, 195; Firmin-Didot 70-1; Aldo Manuzio editore, I 5-6. A1v Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius [Letter addressed to] Albertus Pius, Prince of Carpi. Botfield, 195-7; Aldo Manuzio editore, I 5-7. Aldus acknowledges the editorial contribution of Alexander Bondinus, the only one named among several ‘coadiutores’. See C. B. Schmitt, The Aristotelian Tradition and Renaissance Universities (London, 1984), chapter 6 (Alberto Pio and the Aristotelian Studies of his Time').</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>A</greek><sub>2</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Agathemeros, Alexander (Bondini, Alessandro)</locus_author> <locus_work>[Prefatory letter.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek><achr a="&sbreath;" c="A">l<achr a="&accute;" c="e">xandroV <achr a="&sbreath;" c="A">gaq<achr a="&accute;" c="h">meroV jusik<achr a="`" c="o">V t<achr a="&circumflex;ι" c="w"> to<achr a="&circumflex;" c="u"> jiloso</greek><<greek>ta</greek>><greek>je<achr a="&circumflex;" c="i">n <achr a="&sbreath;" c="e">rast<achr a="&circumflex;ι" c="h"> e<achr a="&sbreath;" c="u">pr<achr a="&accute;" c="a">ttein</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘<greek>Cr<achr a="&accute;" c="o">noV <achr a="&sbcircum;" c="h">n, <achr a="&rbaccute;" c="o">te m<achr a="&accute;" c="o">non per<achr a="`" c="i"> poihtik<achr a="&accute;" c="h">n te ka<achr a="`" c="i"> <achr a="&rbreath;" c="r">htorik<achr a="`" c="h">n t<achr a="&accute;" c="e">cnhn ka[te]geu<achr a="&accute;" c="o">men</greek> . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See Martin Sicherl, <i>Handschriftliche Vorlagen der Editio princeps des Aristoteles</i>, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 8 (Wiesbaden, 1976), 11; also Firmin-Didot 67-8 and 446-7.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>A</greek><sub>2</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Carteromachus, Scipio</locus_author> <locus_work>[Prefatory letter.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Skip<achr a="&accute;" c="i">wn Karter<achr a="&accute;" c="o">macoV <achr a="&rbreath;" c="o"> pistorie<achr a="`" c="u">V to<achr a="&circumflex;" c="i">V jilosoji<achr a="&accute;" c="a">n di<achr a="&accute;" c="w">kousi ca<achr a="&accute;" c="i">rein</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘<greek>T<achr a="`" c="o"> jilosoje<achr a="&circumflex;" c="i">n, <achr a="&sbreath;" c="a">e<achr a="`" c="i"> m<achr a="`" c="e">n cr<achr a="&accute;" c="h">simon, n<achr a="&circumflex;" c="u">n d<achr a="`" c="e"> ka<achr a="`" c="i"> <achr a="&sbreath;" c="a">nagka<achr a="&circumflex;" c="i">on</greek> . . .’</locus_incipit></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>A</greek><sub>3</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Porphyrius</locus_author> <locus_work>[Isagoge.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>E<achr a="&sbreath;" c="i">sagwg<achr a="&accute;" c="h"></greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk"><i>Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca</i> iv, 1, ed. Adolf Busse (Berlin, 1887), 1-22. For the manuscript sources used for this edition see Sicherl 51-2.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>B</greek><sub>5</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[Categoriae.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Kathgor<achr a="&accute;" c="i">ai</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk"><i>Aristotelis Opera</i> ed. I. Bekker, 2nd edn O. Gigon, (Berlin, 1960) 1a 1-15b 33. See Hellmut Flashar, ‘Aristoteles', in <i>Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie der Antike</i>, iii <i>Ältere Akademie Aristotelis -- Peripatos</i>, ed. Hellmut Flashar (Stuttgart, 1983), § 11 Primärbibliographie, 195-228, § 13 Werkbeschreibung, 236-321, at 203 and 237.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>D</greek><sub>6</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[De interpretatione.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> <achr a="&rbreath;" c="e">rmhne<achr a="&accute;" c="i">aV</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 16a 1-24b 9. See Flashar 203-4 and 237-8.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>E</greek><sub>8</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[Analytica priora.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek><achr a="&sbreath;" c="A">nalutik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n prot<achr a="&accute;" c="e">rwn pr<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">ton</greek> [- <greek>de<achr a="&accute;" c="u">teron</greek>].’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 24a 10-70b 38. See Flashar 204-5 and 241.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>a<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[Analytica posteriora.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek><achr a="&sbreath;" c="A">nalutik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n <achr a="&rbreath;" c="u">st<achr a="&accute;" c="e">rwn <achr a="&sbreath;" c="h">toi t<achr a="&circumflex;" c="h">V <achr a="&sbreath;" c="A">podeiktik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="h">V pr<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">ton</greek> [-<greek>de<achr a="&accute;" c="u">teron</greek>].’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 71a 1-100b 17. See Flashar 205 and 241-2.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>f<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[Topica.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Topik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n pr<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">ton</greek> [- <greek><achr a="&sbaccute;" c="o">gdoon</greek>].’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 100a 18-164b 19. See Flashar 204 and 238-40.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>p<sub>4</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[De sophisticis elenchis.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> sojistik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n <achr a="&sbreath;" c="e">l<achr a="&accute;" c="e">gcwn</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 164a 20-184b 8. See Flashar 204 and 240.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>s<sub>6</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_anonwork>[Following registrum and colophon, a statement claiming privilege for the Greek texts produced by Aldus and for the use of his invention.]</locus_anonwork> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘Concessum est eidem Aldo inuentori ab illustrissimo Senatu Veneto ne quis queat imprimere neque hunc librum neque caeteros quos is ipse impresserit, neque eius uti invento, sub poena ut in gratia.’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">On this privilege see Nicolas Barker, <i>Aldus and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth Century</i> (Sandy Hook, 1985), 92-3.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>s<sub>6</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_anonwork>[Table of contents in Latin for part I.]</locus_anonwork></locus> <locus><locus_locus>Part II.</locus_locus></locus> <locus><locus_locus>*<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_anonwork>[Table of contents in Greek and Latin.]</locus_anonwork></locus> <locus><locus_locus>*<sub>1</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius</locus_author> <locus_work>[Letter addressed to]</locus_work> <locus_dedicatee>Albertus Pius, Prince of Carpi.</locus_dedicatee> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Botfield, 197-200. <i>Aldo Manuzio editore</i>, I 14-17. Aldus acknowledges the assistance of Laurentius Maiolus (†1501), who compared manuscripts in the possesion of Nicolaus Leonicenus (1428-1524) with Aldus's. Thomas Linacre (<i>c</i>.1460-1524), Gabriel [Bracius] and Iustinus Corcyraeus [of Corfu] are cited as witnesses to the care employed by Aldus. On Maiolus see Sicherl 11.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>*<sub>3</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Diogenes Laertius</locus_author> <locus_work>[Vita Aristotelis.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek><achr a="&sbreath;" c="A">ristot<achr a="&accute;" c="e">louV B<achr a="&accute;" c="i">oV <achr a="&sbreath;" c="e">k t<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n Laert<achr a="&accute;" c="i">ou</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Diogenes Laertius, <i>Vita philosophorum</i> v, 1-35, ed. M. Marcovich (Leipzig, 1999) I 304-31; Ingemar Düring, <i>Aristotle in the Ancient Biographical Tradition</i>, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 5 (Gothenburg, 1957), 29-56.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>*<sub>8</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Diogenes Laertius</locus_author> <locus_work>[Vita Theophrasti.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>B<achr a="&accute;" c="i">oV Qeojr<achr a="&accute;" c="a">stou kat<achr a="`" c="a"> Diog<achr a="&accute;" c="e">nhn</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Diogenes Laertius, <i>Vita philosophorum</i>, v, 36-57, ed. Marcovich I 331-49.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>×<sub>4</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Philoponus [pseudo-</locus_author> <locus_work>Vita Aristotelis. Also known as Vita vulgata.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>B<achr a="&accute;" c="i">oV <achr a="&sbreath;" c="A">ristot<achr a="&accute;" c="e">louV kat<achr a="`" c="a"> Fil<achr a="&accute;" c="o">ponon</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Ingemar Düring, <i>Aristotle in the Ancient Biographical Tradition</i>, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 5 (Gothenburg, 1957), 131-6; see 121 n. 1 for a discussion on the authorship and 126-8 on the family of manuscripts used.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>×<sub>5</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Galenus [pseudo-</locus_author> <locus_work>Historia philosopha.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Galhno<achr a="&circumflex;" c="u"> per<achr a="`" c="i"> jilos<achr a="&accute;" c="o">jou <achr a="&rbreath;" c="i">stor<achr a="&accute;" c="i">aV</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk"><i>Doxographi Graeci</i> ed. H. Diels (Berlin, 1879), 597-648; see also 241-58 for a discussion of the authorship. For the manuscript sources used for this edition see Sicherl 59-62.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>a<greek>a</greek><sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[Physica.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Fusik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="h">V <achr a="&sbreath;" c="a">kro<achr a="&accute;" c="a">sewV <achr a="&sbgrave;" c="h"> Per<achr a="`" c="i"> jusik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n <achr a="&sbreath;" c="a">rc<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n, t<achr a="`" c="o"> A</greek>&revnot; [- <greek>Q</greek>&revnot;].’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 184a 10-267b 26. See Flashar 212 and 262-5.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>m<greek>m</greek><sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[De caelo et mundo.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> o<achr a="&sbreath;" c="u">rano<achr a="&circumflex;" c="u"> t<achr a="`" c="o"> A</greek>&revnot; [- <greek>D</greek>&revnot;].’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 268a 1-313b 23. See Flashar 213-14 and 265-6.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>s<greek>s</greek><sub>1</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[De generatione et corruptione.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> gen<achr a="&accute;" c="e">sewV ka<achr a="`" c="i"> jqor<achr a="&circumflex;" c="a">V t<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n e<achr a="&sbreath;" c="i">V d<achr a="&accute;" c="u">o</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 314a 1-338b 19. See Flashar 213 and 267-8.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>x<greek>j</greek><sub>2</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>[Meteorologica.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Metewrologik<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n t<achr a="&circumflex;" c="w">n e<achr a="&sbreath;" c="i">V D</greek>&revnot;.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 338a 20-390b 22. See Flashar 213 and 268-9.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>D<greek>D</greek><sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles [pseudo-</locus_author> <locus_work>De mundo.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> k<achr a="&accute;" c="o">smou</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Bekker 391a 1-401b 29; see also Flashar 221 and 288-9. For a discussion of the ascription of the De mundo to Aristotle in the Renaissance see Jill Kraye, ‘Aristotle's God and the Authenticity of the <i>De mundo</i>. An Early Modern Controversy', <i>Journal of the History of Philosophy</i>, 28 (1990), 339-58.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>E<greek>E</greek><sub>4</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Philo Judaeus [pseudo-</locus_author> <locus_work>De mundo.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> k<achr a="&accute;" c="o">smou</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk"><i>Philonis Judaei Opera omnia</i> ed. T. Mangey (Erlangen, 1785), II 601-24. A compilation based on several works of Philo; see Philo, <i>Opera quae supersunt</i>, II, ed. Paul Wendland (Berlin, 1897), pp. vi–x.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>F<greek>Z</greek><sub>6</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Theophrastus</locus_author> <locus_work>[De igne.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> pur<achr a="&accute;" c="o">V</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Theophrastus ed. F. Wimmer (Liepzig, 1862), III, fragment III, 50-73. See Fritz Wehrli, ‘Der Peripatos bis zum Beginn der römischen Kaiserzeit', <i>Die Philosophie der Antike</i>, III (<i>Ältere Akademie Aristotelis -- Peripatos</i>), ed. Hellmut Flashar (Stuttgart, 1983), 459-599, at 482-3. In his dedicatory letter on *<sub>2</sub><sup>r</sup> Aldus explains why these works by Theophrastus are included here. See Botfield, 198-9; Sicherl 12-13 and C. B. Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus', <i>CTC</i> II 279-84.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>G<greek>H</greek><sub>7</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Theophrastus</locus_author> <locus_work>[De ventis.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> <achr a="&sbreath;" c="a">n<achr a="&accute;" c="e">mwn</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment V, 94-115. See Wehrli 481-2 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus', <i>CTC</i> II 287-91.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>H<greek>Q</greek><sub>6</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Theophrastus</locus_author> <locus_work>[De lapidibus.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> l<achr a="&accute;" c="i">qwn</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment II, pp. 34-50. See Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus', <i>CTC</i> II 277-9.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>I</greek><sub>7</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Theophrastus pseudo-</locus_author> <locus_work>De signis aquarum et ventorum.]</locus_work> <locus_txt>‘<greek>Per<achr a="`" c="i"> shme<achr a="&accute;" c="i">wn <achr a="&rbreath;" c="u">d<achr a="&accute;" c="a">twn ka<achr a="`" c="i"> pneum<achr a="&accute;" c="a">twn</greek>.’</locus_txt> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment VI, 115-30. See Wehrli 482 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus', <i>CTC</i> II 291-4. In the letter of dedication on *<sub>2</sub><sup>r</sup> described by Aldus as ‘<greek><achr a="&sbreath;" c="a">nwn<achr a="&accute;" c="u">mou</greek>’ and in the table of contents as ‘<greek><achr a="&sbreath;" c="a">nwn<achr a="&accute;" c="u">mou</greek> incerti autoris'. For a discussion of the authorship and the manuscripts used for this edition see Sicherl 57-8.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus><greek>K</greek><sub>6</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_work>[Reminder of the privileges granted to Aldus by the Venetian senate.]</locus_work> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘Impetratum est a dominis Venetis idem in hoc quod in ceteris impressis Graece domi nostrae . . .’</locus_incipit></locus> <locus><locus_locus>Part III.</locus_locus></locus> <locus><locus_locus>aa<greek>aa</greek><sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_work>[Table of contents in Greek.]</locus_work></locus> <locus><locus_locus>aa<greek>aa</greek><sub>1</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius</locus_author> <locus_work>[Letter addressed to]</locus_work> <locus_dedicatee>Albertus Pius, Prince of Carpi.</locus_dedicatee> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Botfield, 200-1. <i>Aldo Manuzio editore</i>, I 13-14. Aldus acknowledges the editorial contribution of Franciscus Caballus (d. 1540); see Sicherl 12-13. See C. B. Schmitt, <i>The Aristotelian Tradition and Renaissance Universities</i> (London, 1984), chapter 13 (
Aristotelian Textual Studies at Padua: The Case of Francesco Cavalli’). aaaa2r Aristoteles [Historia animalium I–IX.] ’Per zwn storaV t A&revnot; [- I&revnot;].’ Bekker 486a 5-633b 8. see Flashar 214 and 271-4. The books have been ordered as in Theodorus Gaza’s Latin translation, book IX becoming VII. After 631b 18 the text is ordered as follows: 633a 11-633a 28, 632b 14-633a 11, 633a 29-633b 8, 631b 19-632b 13; see Aristoteles (ed. D. M. Balme), xi 542; see 1-13 for a discussion of the authenticity of books VII and IX, also Flashar 271-2. For the manuscripts sources used for this edition see Sicherl 19-28. The spurious book X begins on ×1r in this volume. ppoo6r Aristoteles [De partibus animalium.] ’Per zwn morwn t prton [- t D]&revnot;.’ Bekker 639a 1-697b 30. See Flashar 213-14 and 269-70. xxxx5r Aristoteles [De incessu animalium.] ’Per zwn poreaV.’ Bekker 704a 4-714b 23. See Flashar 214-15 and 276. yycc4v Aristoteles [De anima.] ’Per yucV t A&revnot; [- G&revnot;].’ Bekker 402a 1-435b 25. See Flashar 215 and 277. AA7r Aristoteles [De sensu et sensato.] ’Per asqsewV ka asqhtn.’ Bekker 436a 1-449b 3. See Flashar 216 and 278. BB10r Aristoteles [De memoria et reminiscentia.] ’Per mnmhV ka to mnhmoneein.’ Bekker 449b 4-453b 11. See Flashar 216 and 270. GG4r Aristoteles [De somno et vigilia.] ’Per pnou ka grhgrsewV.’ Bekker 453b 11-458a 32. See Flashar 216 and 278. GG9r Aristoteles [De insomniis.] ’Per nupnwn.’ Bekker 458a 33-462b 11. See Flashar 217 and 278. DD3v Aristoteles [De divinatione per somnum.] ’Per tV kaq&revnot; pnon mantikV.’ Bekker 462b 12-464b 18. See Flashar 217 and 278. The final sentence (`Per d tV koinV kinsewV tn zwn lekton‘) is not included in Bekker’s edition. DD5v Aristoteles [De motu animalium.] ’Per zwn kinsewV.’ Bekker 698a 1-704b 3. See Flashar 215 and 276. While the authorship was disputed in the nineteenth century, the work is now thought to be genuine; see Aristotle, De motu animalium, ed. M. G. Nussbaum (Princeton, 1978), 3-12. EE2r Aristoteles [De generatione animalium.] ’Per zwn gensewV to A&revnot; [- E&revnot;].’ Bekker 715a 1-789b 20. See Flashar 214 and 274. NN2v Aristoteles [De longitudine et brevitate vitae.] ’Per makrobithtoV ka bracubithtoV.’ Bekker 464b 19-467b 9. See Flashar 217 and 278. NN5v Aristoteles [De iuventute et senectute, De vita et morte, De respiratione et inspiratione.] ’Per nethtoV ka grwV kai zwV ka qantou.’ Bekker 467b 10-480b 30. See Flashar 217 and 278-9. XX9v Aristoteles [pseudo- De spiritu.] ’Per pnematoV.’ Bekker 481a 1-486b 4. See Flashar 221 and 289. For the origin of this work see W. W. Jaeger, ‘Das Pneuma im Lykeion’, Hermes, 48 (1913), 29-74, at 55-74. Otto Regenbogen, ‘Theophrastos von Eresos’, RE, Supplement 7 (1940), III 8. Pseudo-Aristotelica, 4, Per pnematoV, columns 1545-6, considers it to be of ‘Theophrastean’ origin. OO5v Aristoteles [pseudo- De coloribus.] ’Per crwmtwn.’ Bekker 791a 1-799b 20. See Flashar 222 and 289. For the authorship see H. B. Gottschalk, ‘The De coloribus and its Author’, Hermes, 92 (1964), 59-85, who ascribes the work to Theophrastus or one of his pupils. See Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 315-22. PP4v Aristoteles [pseudo- Physiognomia.] ’Fusiognwmik.’ Bekker 805a 1-814b 9. See Flashar 222 and 289-90. For the manuscript sources used for this edition see Sicherl 53-6. RR4v Aristoteles [pseudo- De mirabilibus auscultationibus.] ’Per qaumaswn kousmtwn.’ Bekker 830a 5-845b 32. See Flashar 222 and 290. The text does not contain the last passage of Bekker’s edition, ending on 847b 10. For a summary of arguments about its authenticity see J. Beckmann’s edition (Göttingen, 1786), XVII–XX. SS9r Aristoteles [pseudo- De Melisso, Xenophane, Gorgia.] ’Per XenojnouV. Per ZnwnoV. Per Gorgou.’ Bekker 974a 1-980b 21. See Flashar 223 and 291. For the authorship see Otto Regenbogen, ‘Theophrastos von Eresos’, RE, Supplement 7 (1940), III 8. Pseudo-Aristotelica, 3. De Melisso Xenophane Gorgia, columns 1544-5: most of the work is derived directly or indirectly from several works of Theophrastus. See also B. Cassin, ‘Aristote de Stagire: Spuria – Le De Melisso, Xenophane, Gorgia’, Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, ed. R. Coulet and P. Hadot (Paris, 1989), I 534-7. TT6v Aristoteles [pseudo-;author Georgios Pachymeres De lineis indivisibilibus.] ‘Per tmwn grammn.’ A paraphrase by Pachymeres of a classical Pseudo-Aristotelian Per tmwn grammn (Bekker 968a 1-972b 33). See Dieter Harlfinger, Die Textgeschichte der pseudo-aristotelischen Schrift Per tmwn grammn. Ein kodikologisch-kulturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur Klärung der Überlieferungsverhältnisse im Corpus Aristotelicum (Amsterdam, 1971), 345-60. In H. Gemusaeus’ edition of Aristotle, Opera (Basel, 1542), III 562-70, Jacob Schegk’s Latin translation appears under the title ‘In Aristotelis librum De insecabilibus lineis commentarius’, clearly indicating that the Greek text which was translated was not itself by Aristotle; see Jill Kraye, ‘Erasmus and the Canonization of Aristotle’, England and the Continental Renaissance, ed. E. Chaney and P. Mack (Woodbridge, 1990), 46-7 n. 57. The authorship of Aristotle was also rejected in Aristotle, Opera (Basel: M. Isingrin, 1550), I 559, possibly on the basis of a note in Conrad Gesner’s copy of Aristotle; see Isingrin’s introductory letter. The first edition of the classical pseudo-Aristotelian work was published by Henricus Stephanus in 1557; see Harlfinger 380-1. UU5v Theophrastus [De piscibus in sicco degentibus.] ’Per cqwn.’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment CLXXI, 213-17 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 307-9. UU7v Theophrastus [De vertiginibus.] ’Per lggwn.’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment VIII, 136-9. See Wehrli 485 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 296-300. UU9r Theophrastus [De lassitudine.] ’Per kpwn.’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment VII, 130-5. See Wehrli 485 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 295-6. FF7v Theophrastus [De odoribus.] ’Per smn.’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment IV, 73-94. See Wehrli 483-4 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 284-7. CC1v Theophrastus [De sudore.] ’Per drtwn.’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment IX, 139-48. See Wehrli 484 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 300-2. CC7v Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius [Following registrum and colophon a reminder of the privileges granted to Aldus by the Venetian senate.] Incipit: ‘Et in hoc concessum nobis, quod in c&ae;teris nostris . . .’ ×1r Aristoteles [pseudo- Historiae animalium liber decimus.] ‘Per zwn storaV t K&revnot;.’ Bekker 633b 12-638b 37. Bekker 636b 33-637b 15 follows 636a 6; see Aristotle (ed. D. M. Balme), xi 543. See Flashar 214 and 271. ×8r Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius [Apology to the reader.] Botfield, 201; Aldo Manuzio editore, I 14. Aldus apologizes for inserting book X of the Historia animalium here, explaining that the text was not available in time for inclusion with the other books. Part IV. [1r] [Table of contents in Greek and Latin.] [1v] Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius [Letter addressed to] Albertus Pius, Prince of Carpi. Botfield 202-3. Aldo Manuzio editore, I 17-18. aaaaaa1r Theophrastus [Historia plantarum.] ’Per jutn storaV t A&revnot; [- K&revnot;].’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, i, 1-262. See Wehrli 486-8. As in many manuscripts, 9, 20, 6 (Wimmer i, 262, 18-23) followed by 9, 8, 1 (Wimmer i, 237, 29-238, 5) have been printed as fragments of a tenth book; see note on pppooo7v: ‘Tata mna to dektou n toV ntigrjoiV erkamen, e m ra t nnt sugkcuntai t loip.’ For the manuscript sources used for this edition see Sicherl 42-50 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 265-73. pppooo7v Theophrastus [De causis plantarum.] ’Per jutn atin t A&revnot; [- Z&revnot;].’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, ii, 1-250. See Wehrli 489. For manuscript sources used for this edition see Sicherl 42-50 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 273-5. AAAaaa1r [Table of contents of the Problemata, in Greek.] ’ristotlouV Problemtwn pnax.’ AAAaaa1v Aristoteles [pseudo- Problemata physica.] ’Problhmtwn tmma A&revnot; [- LH&revnot;]’ Bekker 859a 1-967b 27. See Flashar 222-3 and 290-1. a&revnot;a1r Alexander Aphrodisiensis [pseudo- Problemata (the shorter version).] ’atrikn porhmtwn ka fusikn problhmtwn t A&revnot;-[B&revnot;].’ Physici et medici Graeci minores, i, ed. Julius Ludwig Ideler (Berlin, 1841), 3-80. See F. E. Cranz, ‘Alexander Aphrodiensis’, CTC I 126; R. W. Sharples, ‘Alexander of Aphrodisias: scholasticism and innovation’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, ii 36, 2 (Berlin, 1987), 1176-1243 and 1198. a&revnot;a1r Aristoteles [pseudo- Problemata mechanica.] ’Mhcanik.’ Bekker 847a 11-858b 31. See Flashar 222 and 290. For authorship see Heribert M. Nobis, ‘Die wissenschaftshistorische Bedeutung der peripatetischen “Quaestiones Mechanicae” als Anlaß für die Frage nach ihrem Verfasser’, Maia, ns 18 (1966), 265-76. P. L. Rose and S. Drake, ‘The Pseudo-Aristotelian Questions of Mechanics in Renaissance Culture’, Studies in the Renaissance, 18 (1971), 65-104 (on this edition, see 76-7). AAAaaa1r Aristoteles [Metaphysica.] ‘Tn met t jusik lja [- M]&revnot;.’ Bekker 980a 22-1093b 29. Flashar 210-12 and 256-61. For the manuscript sources used for this edition see Sicherl 29-35. PPPooo5r Theophrastus [Metaphysica.] ‘Tn met t jusik.’ Theophrastus, ed. Wimmer, iii, fragment XII, 150-62. See Wehrli 479-80 and Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus’, CTC II 239-322. For the manuscript sources used for this edition see Sicherl 33-5. PPPooo9v [Note on the authorship of Theophrastus’ Metaphysics.] Theophrastus, Metaphysics, ed. W. D. Ross and F. H. Fobes (Oxford, 1929), 38. PPPooo10r Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius [Following registrum and colophon, a reminder of the privileges granted to Aldus by the Venetian senate.] Incipit: ‘Et in hoc impetratum est a dominibus Venetis quae in caeteris nostris Graece impressis . . .’ Part V. aaaa1r [Table of contents in Greek and Latin.] aaaa1v Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius [Letter addressed to] Albertus Pius, Prince of Carpi. Botfield, 203-4. Aldo Manuzio editore, ed. G. Orlandi (Milan, 1975), I 22-3 and II 211-12 (Italian translation), 326-7 (notes). Including a poem by Sotades [Maronita, Pseudo-] AtV gr n pantogenV pnta gennn; sixteen sotadic tetrameters: J. U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina (Oxford 1925), 243. aaaa2r Aristoteles [Ethica Nicomachea.] ‘qikn Nikomacewn t A&revnot; [- K]&revnot;.’ Bekker 1094a 1-1181b 23. See Flashar 205-6 and 244-6. For the manuscript sources for this edition see Sicherl 36-41. llll1r Aristoteles [Politica.] ‘Politikn t A&revnot; [- Q]&revnot;.’ Bekker 1252a 1-1342b 34. See Flashar 207-8 and 248-52. yyyy1r Aristoteles [pseudo- Oeconomica.] ‘Okonomikn A&revnot;-[B]&revnot;.’ Books I–II only. Bekker 1343a 1-1353b 27. See Flashar 223 and 292. wwww1r Aristoteles [Magna moralia.] ‘qikn meglwn t A&revnot;-[B&revnot;].’ Bekker 1181a 24-1213b 30. See Flashar 243-4, also 207 and 247-8. For the use of Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Gr. 2024, among other manuscripts used see Christian Brockmann, ‘Zur Überlieferung der aristotelischen Magna Moralia’, Symbolae Berolinenses für Dieter Harlfinger (Berlin, 1993), 43-80, at 54 and 60-1. DDDD1r Aristoteles [Ethica eudemica I–VII.] ‘qikn edhmwn t A&revnot; -[H]&revnot;.’ Books I–III: Bekker 1214a 1-1234b 14; books IV–VI: Bekker 1129a 3-1154b 34; book VII: 1234b 18-1249b 25. Books IV–VI are identical to Ethica Nichomachea books V–VII, but are printed here again. See Flashar, 206-7, 243, 246-7, and 299-303. KKKK12r [Following registrum and colophon, the statement ‘et hoc cum privilegio’.]
Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, 1495-8. Folio.In five parts, dated: (I) 1 Nov. 1495; (II) Feb. 1497; (III) 29 Jan. 1497; (IV) 1 June 1497; (V) June 1498. Part I: A–C D E–K8 L–N6 a–c8 d e6 f–q8 r s6; part II: ×+ o V aa–mm rV ss–zy &w A B8 CG6 DD–I8 K6; part III: aaaa–iiii kk llll–zzyy &&ww AA–PP10 RR10+1 SS FF10 CC8 ¶8; part IV: []1 aaaaaa–iiiiii kkk llllll–zzzyyy &&&www AAA– CCCGGG8 DDDDDD10 AAAaaa–MMMmmm8 NNNnnn XXXooo10 a&revnot;a–d&revnot;d8 e&revnot;e10 a&revnot;a6 b&revnot;b8 AAAaaa–OOOxxx8 PPPooo10; part V: aaaa–iiii10 kkkk4 llll–jjjj10 cccc6 yyyy12 wwww AAAA BBBB10 GGGG6 DDDD–IIII10 KKKK12. All with irregular printed foliation. Woodcut borders and initials. GW 2334;HC *1657;Goff A-959;BMC V 553, 555, 556, 558;Pr 5547, 5555, 5553, 5556, 5565;BSB-Ink A-698; CIBN A-504; Essling 862; Oates 2162-4, 2170, 2172-4, 2182; Rhodes 130; Sander 591; Scapecchi, ‘Annali’, 4, 23, 22, 11; Sheppard 4611-13, 4623-33, 4647-8.
First copy Bound in five volumes. Binding: All volumes are bound uniformly in seventeenth-century French gold-tooled calf with arabesque centre-piece and corner ornaments, rebacked. Size: 317 × 220 × 40 mm; 317 × 220 × 53 mm; 317 × 220 × 78 mm; 313 × 225 × 86 mm; 314 × 220 × 54 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 200 mm; 308 × 202 mm; 308 × 195 mm; 305 × 197 mm; 307 × 198 mm Vol. 3 wanting the last line of printed text on 100v, supplied in manuscript. In vol. 5 the first sheet of gathering QQQQ bound as the inmost sheet of gathering HHHH. The text enclosed within rules in red ink. Provenance: Paris, Colbert; ‘Bibliothec&ae; Colbertin&ae;’ on the first page of each volume. John Thynne, 3rd Lord Carteret de Hawnes (1772-1849); book-plate dated 1841; see Howe, Book Plates, 29453; sale of the library of the great nephew of the 3rd Lord Carteret de Hawnes, Francis John Thynne (1886) no. 55. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 314. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. A 4.9-13. Second copy For this copy see Printing Greek, no. 4, and Continental Shelf, no. 29. Parts I–IV only, bound in five volumes. In part II, Ll4r, tt1r, and FZ1r offset from a book printed in textura. In part III, a printed strip correcting the last line of text on 100v. The extra sheet PP printed only on the first recto, supplying missing text, is here bound between PP5 and PP6, and is offset on ffzz4r and ssss3r; KK5 is signed llv. Binding: All volumes are bound uniformly in sixteenth-century English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf; see Gibson (Oxford bindings), pl. xxxviii, no. ix; Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. liii, no. 901 and pl. xl, no. 624. All with staple-marks of a hasp. Size: 314 × 225 × 39 mm; 316 × 222 × 50 mm; 320 × 220 × 77 mm; 314 × 220 × 45 mm; 316 × 218 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 10 × 212 mm; 310 × 209 mm; 311 × 202 mm; 310 × 205 mm; 310 × 205 mm. Pastedowns for vol. 1 (pt I): front: fragments of a twelfth- to thirteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Gospels; first column: Io 10,24-32; second column: Io 10,39-11,4; see Ker, Pastedowns, no. 519; back: fragments of late thirteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Epistolae Pauli; first column: Gal 3,13-19; second column: Gal 3,26-4,6; see Ker, Pastedowns, no. 520. Pastedowns for vol. 2 (part II): fragments of a late thirteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Epistolae Pauli, from the same manuscript as that found in the back of vol. 1; front: first column: Gal 2,16-20; second column: Gal 3,8-13; back, first column: Eph 5,13-23; second column: Eph 5,31-6,6; Ker, Pastedowns, 520. Pastedowns for vol. 3 (part III): front: fragments of a late thirteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Epistolae Pauli, from the same manuscript as that found in the back of vol. 1 and in vol. 2, first column: Eph 2,2-9; second column Eph 2,15-3,1; see Ker, Pastedowns, 520; back: fragments of a twelfth- to thirteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Gospels, from the same manuscript as that found in the front of vol. 1, first column: Io 10,34-9, second column: Io 11,6-11; Ker, Pastedowns, 519. Pastedowns for vol. 4,1 (part IV): fragments of a twelfth/thirteenth century parchment manuscript of the Gospels, from the same manuscript as that found in the front of vol. 1; front: first column: Mt 15,10-19, second column: Mt 15,25-32; back: first column: Mt 13,19-24, second column: Mt 13,30-6; see Ker, Pastedowns, 519. Pastedowns for vol. 4,2 (part IV): fragments of a twelfth/thirteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Gospels, from the same manuscript as that found in the front of vol. 1, front: first column: Mt 13,26-30, second column: Mt 13,38-43; back: first column: Mt 12,49-13,4, second column: Mt 13,14-19; see Ker, Pastedowns, 519. Provenance: ‘Wyght me possidet’ on the endleaf of Auct. 1R 2.7, possibly William White (†1547). Sir John Fortescue (1531?–1607); ‘John Fortescue’ on endleaf of Auct. 1R 2.5. Presented in 1601 by Fortescue; see the Benefactors’ Register I 23; also James, Catalogus (1605), 275; Jensen, ‘Benefactors’ Register’, no. 47. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: A 1.1 Art; K 2.1 Art [pt I]; S 4.4 Art; A 3.15 Art; K 2.6 Art (pt IV,1). Shelfmarks: Auct. 1R 2.2 [pt I], 2.4 [pt II], 2.6 [pt III], 2.7 [pt IV,1], 2.5 [pt IV,2]. Third copy Parts I and III only. Part III bound before part I. In part III sheets AA5.6 and EE1.10 differently set up, without foliation. Binding: Sixteenth-century English(?) blind-tooled calf; on both covers triple fillets form a frame, with a floral tool in the corners; in the centre a small arabesque plate. Size: 305 × 210 × 105 mm; 305 × 210 × 105 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 204 mm; 302 × 210 mm. Provenance: Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725); sale (13 Nov. 1732), part of lot 2365. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755)(?). Perhaps bequeathed in 1755. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1R 2.9(2); Auct. 1R 2.9(1). Fourth copy Part II only. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 320 × 220 × 53 mm. Size of leaf: 316 × 203 mm. Provenance: probably Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725); sale (13 Nov. 1732), part of lot 2365. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755)(?). Perhaps bequeathed in 1755. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1R 2.10. Fifth copy Part IV only. Wanting llllll4, in place of which is bound a duplicate of llllll3, d&revnot;d4, in place of which is bound a duplicate of d&revnot;d1; and AAAaaa1-PPPooo10. Binding: Sixteenth century (first half) north(?) Italian. Blind-tooled sheep over pasteboards with four three-line frames, corners mitred. Outer border of a lozenge between two trefoils repeated; inner border of a repeated flower; a stylized flower-head repeated in a cruciform composition in the centre. Four pairs of modern leather ties. Plain edges. Title in ink along the lower edge. Edges of the boards undecorated. New headbands. Sewn on three split(?) thongs. Three original endleaves survive at each end, watermark: a pair of compasses (not in Briquet). Rebacked. Size: 326 × 219 × 83 mm. Size of leaf: 319 × 212 mm. On back endleaf: ‘A monsgniore de Rmo de bologna Al preuosta de Savoye. Itur ad alta ui superum seue(?)’. Provenance: Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932); bought from Basilio Benedetti. Presented to the Bodleian Library in 1913. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Toynbee 781. SHELFMARK: Toynbee 3658. Sixth copy Part IV only and four folios of part V. Wanting the title-leaf [1] and leaves DDDddd1.8, EEEeee2.7, EEEeee3.6, HHHggg2–HHHggg7, IIIiii1.8, gathering LLLlll, leaves MMMmmm2.7, MMMmmm3.6, a&revnot;a3.6, a&revnot;a4.5, b&revnot;b1.8, gatherings g&revnot;c, e&revnot;e, leaves CCCggg1.8, gathering EEEeee, leaves GGGhhh1.8 and GGGhhh4.5, KKKkkk3.6, KKKkkk4.5, LLLlll1.8 and LLLlll2.7. Gathering mmmmmm is bound in the order mmmmmm1, mmmmmm5–mmmmmm7, mmmmmm2–mmmmmm4, mmmmmm8. Leaves NNNnnn4 and NNNnnn5 are bound after oooxxx4. Gatherings AAAaaa–DDDddd are bound after XXXooo10. After d&revnot;d8 are bound EEEE1.10 and EEEE2.9 of part V. Binding: Parchment. Reinforcing slip from a Latin manuscript on parchment. Size: 294 × 205 × 78 mm. Size of leaf: 290 × 203 mm. Provenance: Sir Henry Savile (1549-1622); the shelfmark indicates that the book formed part of Savile’s original donations; ‘Bibliotheca Saviliana’; book-plate. Transferred to the Bodleian in 1884. SHELFMARK: Savile X 13. Seventh copy Part IV only. Wanting gatherings AAAaaa–PPPooo. Binding: Seventeenth-century French gold-tooled morocco, with fleur-de-lis stamps and the stamp of the Collège des Grassins (Collegium Grassinaeum), Paris, as centre-piece on both covers; marbled pastedowns. Size: 303 × 215 × 47 mm. Copious Greek marginal notes in black, red, or blue by C. P. J. Sprengel and C. F. H. Wimmer. Provenance: Collège des Grassins (Collegium Grassinaeum), Paris. According to a note signed Tharlant(?), Baccalaureus of the Sorbonne and teacher at the Collegium Grassinaeum, the book was given to Stephanus Michel Secundus as a prize for composing a Greek speech on 2 Aug. 1666. Bought in 1801 by Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766-1833) from Johann August Gottlob Weigel (1773-1846) ‘tribus Fridericis aureis’. Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803-1868) according to note by M. Pattison. Mark Pattison (1813-1884), who according to a note signed ‘M. P.’, bought the book from R. Friedländer for £3. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914). Herbert Tomkinson (1873-1951). Miriam Robinette Tomkinson (1916-1986); ex libris; see G[eoffrey] G[room], ‘Notable Accessions’, BLR 12,2 (1986), 145-7, at 146. Presented by M. R. Tomkinson in 1984. SHELFMARK: Byw. adds. 7. Eighth copy Part IV only. Wanting the title leaf ([]) and gatherings AAAaaa–PPPooo. Binding: Seventeenth-century English plain calf (blind fillets only, with one in gilt) over pasteboards. Gilt-edged leaves. Size: 320 × 199 × 45 mm. Provenance: Edward Baker (sixteenth century); inscription on the front pastedown: ‘Edward Baker his Boke William William’. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; armorial book-plate; not found in Radcliffe Catalogue (1835). Transferred by the Radcliffe Trustees in 1893. Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: G.265.A.2; 6.A.1.2; 7.L(?).1.2; SHELFMARK: RR.x.275 [RSL]. Ninth copy Part IV only. Wanting gatherings aaaaaa–DDDDDD. Binding: Roman binding, c.1500-25. Brown sheep over wooden boards with slight inwards bevel. Blind-tooled with three four-line frames; mitred corners; between the second and third frames an acanthus capital tool; see A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders (Cambridge, 1989), 90. Two horizontal compartments filled with repeated impressions of an interlaced tool at the head and foot of the central compartment; the latter with the interlaced tool, a rosette, and an arabesque corner-tool, which is stamped four times to form a centre-piece inside a wreath. Four clasps (three nails, triangle) hinge on the upper cover. Catches in the form of trefoils with pointed top, three nails, domed boss, zigzag engraving round the edges. Pale brown edges, title scribbled by a later hand on the upper edge. Double golden-yellow and russet headbands. Pastedown and one free endleaf (wrapped round the first/last gathering); watermark, a hand below a star, letter C on the palm; see Briquet 11183, Fourealquier 1510, Turin 1515. Rebacked, old backstrip laid down. Sewn on four split thongs. Compartments of the spine decorated with small rosettes in a single line diaper. The horizontal compartments, designed to reduce the height of the centre, are typical of Rome. For the tool used to form the central ‘wreath’; see: &br;1. Baltimore, Maryland, Walters Art Gallery: Homer, Odyssey (Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1504). Repaired by Gruel. Sides laid down on a modern binding;&br;2. Paris, BnF, MS. grec 2364: Theodosius, Sphaerica, manuscript on paper, fifteenth/sixteenth century. Ownership inscription: ‘Andreae Coner 1508 Venetiis’. Coner moved to Rome where he died in 1527;&br;3. Venice, Bibl. Marciana, MS. lat. XI, 85: Marcus Antonius Magnus, Oratio de Spiritu Sancto (Rome, 1509). Dedicated to Cardinal Oliviero Carafa, whose arms are illuminated at the foot of fol. 1a and stamped on the binding;&br;4. Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery: Theocritus, Opera (Rome: Zacharias Kallierges, 1516);&br;5. Bibl. Apostolica Vaticana, Chigi II, 90. Psalterium polyglottum (Genoa, 1516);&br;6. 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A-385 Aristoteles Opera: Organon. Physica.
[a2r] Porphyrius Liber quinque praedicabilium. [Also known as Isagoge.] ‘De vniuersalibus.’ [Translated by Boethius.] Porphyrii Isagoge, ed. L. Minio-Paluello, AL I, 6-7 (1966), 5-31. [b2v] Aristoteles Liber praedicamentorum. ‘Liber Kathegoricarum.’ Categoriae vel praedicamenta, ed. L. Minio-Paluello, AL I,1-5 (1961), p. xxxix, 5-41. Anonymous translation, traditionally ascribed to Boethius; see L. Minio-Paluello, ‘The Genuine Text of Boethius’ Translation of Aristotle’s Categories’, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1 (1942), 151-77 (Opuscula, 1-27) and L. Minio-Paluello, ‘The Text of the Categoriae: the Latin Tradition’, Classical Quarterly, 39 (1945), 63-4 (Opuscula, 28-39). The translation is wrongly ascribed to Johannes Argyropoulos in BMC. [c10r] Aristoteles Liber perihermenias. [Also known as De interpretatione. Translated by Boethius.] De interpretatione vel Periermenias, ed. L. Minio-Paluello, AL II, 1-2 (1965), 5-38. [d10v] Gilbertus Porretanus [pseudo-] De sex principiis. L. Minio-Paluello, AL I, 6-7 (1966), 35-58. On authorship see L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Magister sex principiorum’, Studi medievali, 3rd ser., 6/2 (1965), 123-51 (Opuscula, 536-64), AL (1957), I, 95, Lohr (1968), 166 and PAL 77 no. 86. [e9v] Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Divisiones. PL LXIV 875-92. See CPL 887. [h1r] Aristoteles Analytica priora. [Translated by Boethius.] Analytica priora, ed. L. Minio-Paluello, AL III, 1-4 (1962), 5-139. [n10r] [Colophon.] 2[a1r] Aristoteles Analytica posteriora. [Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] Analytica posteriora, ed. L. Minio-Paluello and Bernard G. Dod, AL IV, 1-4 (1968), 5-107. On the translation see L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Jacobus Veneticus Grecus: Canonist and Translator of Aristotle’, Traditio, 8 (1952), 265-304 (Opuscula, 189-228). 2[d9r] [Colophon.] 3[a1r] Aristoteles De sophisticis elenchis. [Translated by Boethius.] De sophisticis elenchis, ed. Bernard G. Dod, AL VI, 1-3 (1975), 5-60. 3[d1r] Aristoteles Topica. [Translated by Boethius.] Topica, ed. L. Minio-Paluello, AL V, 1-3 (1969), 5-179. 3[l10r] [Colophon.] 4[a2r] Aristoteles Physica. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Physica, ed. Fernand Bossier and Jozef Brams, AL VII/1 (1990), 7-340. See Thorndike–Kibre 1296; Grabmann, Forschungen, 174. On Moerbeka’s translation see L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40, and Guillaume de Moerbeke. Recueil d’études à l’occasion du 700e anniversaire de sa mort (1286), ed. J. Brams and W. Vanhamel (Louvain, 1989). 4[m10v] [Colophon.]
Augsburg: Ambrosius Keller, 1479. Folio.In four parts dated: (I) 15 Sept. 1479; (II) 13 Oct. 1479; (III) 21 Oct. 1479; (IV) 8 Nov. 1479. Part I: 1[a–e10 f g6 h–n10]; part II: 2[a b10 c6 d10]; part III: 3[a10 b c8 d–i10 k8 l10]; part IV: 4[a10 b8 c d6 e10 f8 g10 h i6 k10 l8 m10].Collation as GW, not as BMC. Woodcut initials. GW 2335;HC *1658;Goff A-960;BMC II 361;Pr 1747-50;BSB-Ink A-699; CIBN A-505; Oates 943; Rhodes 131; Sack, Freiburg, 259; Sheppard 1285.
Copy Wanting 1[a1] and gatherings 4Physicaa–m. Binding: Contemporary German (Tübingen, Johannes Zoll) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, two clasps lost; formerly chained: staple-marks at head of the lower cover. On both covers fillets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by fillets into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments. At each point of intersection a round fleur-de-lis stamp, in the compartments a smaller stamp with a stag; see E. Kyriß, ‘Johannes Zoll, ein Tübinger Buchbinder des 15. Jahrhunderts’, in Aus der Welt des Buches: Festgabe zum 70. Geburtstage von Georg Leyh, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Beiheft 75 (Leipzig 1950), 89-93, pls 45 and 49. Reinforcing slips from an early thirteenth-century parchment manuscript. Size: 319 × 214 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 306 × 200 mm. Table of contents in an early hand on front pastedown. Copious early marginal notes. Woodcut initials are coloured in red. Initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. On 3[l10r] the rubricator’s signature ‘P. W.’ beneath the monogram ‘MARIA’ in red; see also C-366. Provenance: Memmingen, Bavaria, Augustinian Hermits; SS. Johannes et Augustinus; ‘Bibliothec&ae; Fratrum Eremitarum Diui Augustini Meming&ae; 1653′. Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1851), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 4.22.
A-386 Aristoteles Opera [Latin].
a2r Aristoteles Physica. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam quidem intelligere et scire contingit circa omnes scientias, quarum sunt principia aut cause aut elementa ex horum cognitione tunc enim cognoscere arbitramur . . .’ See A-385. i3r Aristoteles De caelo et mundo. [Translated from the Greek by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Thomas Aquinas, In Aristotelis libros De caelo et mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteorologicorum expositio, ed. Raymundus M. Spiazzi (Turin and Rome, 1952), 7-308 (books 1-3 (-302b9)). See Thorndike–Kibre 382; AL (1957), I 54; Grabmann, Forschungen, 176-7 and D. J. Allan, ‘Mediaeval Versions of Aristotle, “De caelo”, and of the Commentary of Simplicius’, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, 2 (1950), 82-120, at 85; on Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. o6v Aristoteles De generatione et corruptione [`Translatio nova’]. Incipit: ‘[D]e generatione autem et corruptione et natura generatorum et corruptorum similiter de omnibus et causas diuidendum . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 374. ‘Translatio nova’ sometimes attributed to Guilelmus de Moerbeka; see CHLMP 62-4. On the different versions of the Latin text and on the translation see Lacombe, ‘Medieval Latin Versions’, 289-311; Minio-Paluello, ‘Henri Aristippe’, Opuscula, 57-86; Pelster, ‘Neuere Forschungen über die Aristoteles-Übersetzungen’, 71-7; Minio-Paluello, ‘Les “trois rédactions”0.6 mm’, Opuscula, 114-26, who doubts the ascription to Moerbeka. r5v Aristoteles Meteorologica. ‘Liber metheorum.’ [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e primis quidem igitur causis nature et de omni motu naturali adhuc autem de secundum superiorem lationem . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 386. According to AL (1957), I 57, book IV is a revised version of the translation of Aristippus. On this edition see Hellmann, 2, 18; Grabmann, Forschungen, 182-3; Minio-Paluello, ‘Henri Aristippe’, Opuscula, 57-86. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. In BSB-Ink listed as “Rhetorica”. &1r Aristoteles De anima. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[B]onorum honorabilium notitiam opinantes magis autem alteram altera aut secundum certitudinem aut ex eo quod meliorum quidem et mirabiliorum est . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 179; AL (1957), I 58. On the translation see Grabmann, Forschungen, 193-4 and L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Le texte du De Anima d’Aristote: la tradition latine avant 1500′, in Autour d’Aristote: Recueil d’études . . . offert à Mons. A. Mansion (Louvain, 1955), 217-43 (Opuscula, 250-76). On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. aa1r Aristoteles [pseudo-;author Nicolaus Damascenus] ‘De plantis.’ [Also known as De vegetabilibus. Translated by Alfredus de Sareshel (Shareshill).] Incipit: ‘[T]ria, ut ait Empedocles, in tanta rerum uarietate precipua exccellentissimum(!) de me(!) munificentie donum . . .’ Nicolaus Damascenus, De plantis, ed. E. H. F. Meyer (Leipzig, 1841). Nicolaus Damascenus, De plantis. Five translations, ed. H. J. Drossaart Lulofs and E. L. J. Poortman, Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, NS 139 (Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, 1989), 515-61. See Thorndike–Kibre 1587; on the translation see AL (1957), I 91, Grabmann, Forschungen, 184-5 and Damascenus, De plantis. Five translations, ed. Drossaart Lulofs and Poortman, 465-513. On authorship see Lotte Labowsky, ’Aristoteles De plantis and Bessarion’, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, 5 (1961), 132-54 and B. Hemmerdinger, ‘Le De plantis, de Nicolas de Damas à Planude’, Philologus, 111 (1967), 56-65. cc1r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De coloribus. [Translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina.] Incipit: ‘[S]implices colorum sunt quicunque elementis consequntur, ut igni et aeri et aque et terre . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1507; Flashar 222 and 289. For the authorship see H. B. Gottschalk, ‘The De coloribus and its Author’, Hermes, 92 (1964), 59-85, who ascribes the work to Theophrastus or one of his pupils. On the translation see AL 90 and Grabmann, Forschungen, 204. cc6v Aristoteles [pseudo-] De pomo. ‘Liber de morte Aristo[telis].’ Translated by Manfredus, son of Fridericus II. Aristotelis qui ferebatur liber de pomo versio latina Manfredi, ed. Marianus Plezia, Auctorum graecorum et latinorum opuscula selecta, 2 (Warsaw, 1960). See Thorndike–Kibre 302. On authorship see PAL 51-2 no. 75, AL (1957), I 94 and Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, ed. R. Coulet and P. Hadot (Paris, 1989), I 537-41. dd3v Aristoteles [pseudo-] De intelligentia. [Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] Incipit: ‘[C]um rerum quidem omnium esse secundum primum est diuersumque et multiplex et idem esset . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 336. On authorship see CHLMP 79. On the translator see L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Jacobus Veneticus Grecus: Canonist and Translator of Aristotle’, Traditio, 8 (1952), 265-304 (Opuscula, 189-228). See AL (1957), I 93. dd6r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De lineis indivisibilibus. Incipit: ‘[V]trum sunt indiuisibiles linee et totaliter in omnibus quantis est aliquid impartibile, quemadmodum quidam aiunt . . .’ Possibly translated by Robertus Grosseteste; see AL (1957), I 88-9 and E. Franceschini, ‘Roberto Grossatesta, vescovo di Lincoln, e le sue traduzioni latine’, Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 93 (1933/34), II 1-138, at 62-3. ee3v Aristoteles De inundatione Nili. ‘De inundatione fluuii.’ D. Bonneau, ‘Liber Aristotelis de inundatione Nili. Texte, traduction, étude’, Études de papyrologie, 9 (1971), 1-33. See Thorndike–Kibre 1144. On authorship see PAL 44-5 no. 61, AL (1957), I 90 and C. B. Schmitt, ‘Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages’, Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The Theology and other Texts, ed. J. Kraye, W. F. Ryan and C. B. Schmitt (London, 1986), 1-14, at 14 n. 54. ee5v Aristoteles [pseudo-] Physiognomia. [Translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina.] Scriptores physiognomonici Graeci et Latini, ed. Richard Förster (Leipzig, 1893), I 5-91. See Thorndike–Kibre 1260; Grabmann, Forschungen, 201-3. ff5v Aristoteles De motu animalium. ‘Liber de causa motus animalium.’ [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘De motu autem eo qui animalium quecumque quidem circa unumqu[o]dque genus ipsorum existunt . . .’ ed. L. Torraca (Naples, 1958); see Thorndike–Kibre 381. Bekker 698a 1-704b 3; Flashar 215 and 276. While the authorship was disputed in the nineteenth century, the work is now thought to be genuine; see Aristotle, De motu animalium, ed. M. G. Nussbaum (Princeton, 1978), 3-12. On the translation see Grabmann, Forschungen, 185-90. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. gg4r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum Magnum. [Also known as Rhetorica ad Alexandrum. Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos.] Incipit: ‘[A]ristoteles Alexandro bene agere. Misisti mihi quod sepe sustinuisti multos ad nos deceptantes pro eo, quod scriberem sibi(!) methodos ciuilium sermonum . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 135. Preface and first paragraph only. On the translation see AL (1957), I 78 and Giuseppe Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini e le origini dell’umanesimo. II: Giovanni Argiropulo (Florence, 1941), 184. BSB-Ink ascribes to Moerbeka. gg5r De vita Aristotelis. See Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the Ancient Biographical Tradition, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 5 (Gothenburg, 1957), 151-8. A1r [Aristoteles] De sensu et sensato. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem de anima secundum ipsam determinatum est et de uirtutum qualibet ex parte ipsius conueniens est . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1262; AL (1957), I 60. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40.AL 13 forthcoming B3r Aristoteles De memoria et reminiscentia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e memoria autem et memorari dicendum quid est et propter quam causam sit . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 379; AL (1957), I 60. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40.AL 14 forthcoming B6r Aristoteles De somno et vigilia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e somno autem et uigilia considerandum est quid sint et utrum anime uel corporis propria sint uel communia . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 391; AL (1957), I 60. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40.AL 15 forthcoming C8r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De causis. Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia, IV 507-20. Otto Bardenhewer, Die pseudo-aristotelische Schrift über das reine Gute, bekannt unter dem Namen Liber de causis (Freiburg, 1882), 163-91. Thomas Aquinas, In librum de causis expositio, ed. Ceslaus Pera (Turin and Rome, 1955), 3-147 (edited as lemmata to the commentary). See Thorndike–Kibre 996. Possibly translated by Gerardus Cremonensis; see PAL 18-20 no. 13. On the text see Grabmann, Forschungen, 251. On this edition see Bardenhewer, Die pseudo-aristotelische Schrift (Freiburg, 1882), 154-5. See also R. C. Taylor, ‘Remarks on the Latin Text and the Translator of Kal¯ona;m f¯onii; ma al-Khair/Liber de causis’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 31 (1989), 75-102; idem, ‘The Kal¯ona;m f¯onii; ma al-Khair (Liber de causis) in the Islamic philosophical milieu’, in Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The Theology and Other Texts, ed. Jill Kraye and others (London, 1986), 37-52; Cristina D’Ancona Costa, ‘Le fonti e la struttura del Liber de causis’, Medioevo, 15 (1989), 1-38. E2v Aristoteles De bona fortuna. Incipit: ‘[H]abitum autem utique erit his dicere quoniam de felicitate est sermo de bona fortuna . . .’ A combination of Magna moralia II, 8 and Ethica Eudemica VII, 14 (VIII,14); see AL (1957), I 72-3; A. Pelzer, ‘Les versions des ouvrages de morales conservés sous le nom d’Aristote en usage au XIIIe siècle’ Revue neo-scholastique de philosophie, 23 (1921), 316-23, at 317-21. E5r Aristoteles De longitudine et brevitate vitae. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e eo autem quod est hoc quidem esse longe uite animalium, hoc autem breuis uite . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 372; see AL (1957), I 60. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. E7v Aristoteles De iuventute et senectute. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e iuuentute autem et senectute et uita et morte nunc dicendum . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 377; Flashar 217 and 278-9. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. F1v Aristoteles De respiratione et inspiratione. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium autem quoniam haec quidem sunt aquatilia, haec autem in aere faciunt dietam . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 99. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. The first passage of the text follows directly after the end of the preceding text. F4r Aristoteles De vita et morte. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem dictum est prius quod uiuere et anime habitus cum caliditate quadam est . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 513. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. The beginning of the text has been omitted. G1r Aristoteles Metaphysica. [Translation revised and book XI translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnes homines natura scire desiderant. Signum autem est sensuum dilectio . . .’ A reworking of the Translatio anonyma sive Media; see Metaphysica, ed. Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem, AL 25/2 (1976), 7-275. See Thorndike–Kibre 986. See AL (1957), I 65. See L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Note sull’Aristotele Latino Medievale. I. La Metaphysica Vetustissima comprendeva tutta la Metafisica? II. Caratteristiche del traduttore della Physica Vaticana e della Metaphysica Media [Gerardo di Cremona?]’, Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 42 (1950), 222-31 (Opuscula 98-107). Grabmann, Forschungen, 144-69. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40, and Guillaume de Moerbeke. Recueil d’études à l’occasion du 700e anniversaire de sa mort (1286), ed. J. Brams and W. Vanhamel (Louvain, 1989). R5r [Colophon.] R5v Sforzantes de Faventia, Petrus Antonius [Poem.] ‘Quisquis Aristotelis sumpturus dogmata tendis &pipe; Commoditas paruo (ne fuge) multa dabit’; 8 elegiac distichs. S1r Averroes (Ibn Rushd) De substantia orbis. [Translated by Michael Scotus.] Incipit: ‘[I]n hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus, ex quibus componitur corpus celeste . . .’ Comentario al ‘De substantia orbis’ de Averroes por Alvaro de Toledo, ed. Manuel Alonso (Madrid, 1941) (lemmata). See Thorndike–Kibre 681.
Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 4 Apr. 1482. Folio. a10 b–e8 f–x8.6 y z6 &8 [con]6 [rum]8 aa bb6 cc–ff8.6 gg A B6 C8 D6 E F8 G–O6.8 P–R6 S4 T6.Leaf bb1r is signed ‘bb’ and ‘aa’. S1r is signed ‘hh.’ GW 2336;H *1682;Goff A-961;not in Pr;BSB-Ink A-700; CIBN A-529; Rhodes 132; Sheppard 3455.
Copy Wanting T6, the register, which is supplied in photostat. Binding: Modern calf. Size: 312 × 225 × 58 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 199 mm. Occasional early marginal notes; early foliation. In the same hand, an early table of contents with folio references on a1r. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Red rules throughout. Provenance: Possibly Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Maria Assumpta; ‘Pro Conv[entu] Rev[erendissimorum] Fr[atrum] Min[orum] [Ingolstadiensis?]’ on a2r. Arthur Kay (†1939); book-plate with initials; sale (26 May 1930), lot 24. Purchased in 1953 with money donated by Arthur A. Houghton; inscription ‘Bought from William Dawson and Sons Ltd, 23 Oct. 1953′, also BLR 4,1 (1952), 58, and 5,1 (1954), 53. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1482.2.
A-387 Aristoteles Opera [Latin].
Volume 1, part I. a1r Porphyrius Liber quinque praedicabilium. [Also known as Isagoge. Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. a3v Averroes (Ibn Rushd) [Commentary on Porphyrius, Liber quinque praedicabilium. Translated by Guilelmus de Luna.] Incipit: ‘[I]ntentio in hac dictione est explanatio eius, quod continet liber Porphirii in introductione ad scientiam rationalem . . .’ See AL (1957), I 101 and CHLMP 60. b1r Aristoteles De decem praedicamentis. [Also known as Categoriae.] See A-385. b5v Averroes (Ibn Rushd) [Commentary on De decem praedicamentis. Translated by Guilelmus de Luna.] Incipit: ‘[I]ntentio in hoc sermone est explanare sententias contentas in libris Aris[totelis] in arte logice et acquirere eas secundum posse et vsum nostrum . . .’ See AL (1957), I 101 and CHLMP 60. d1r Aristoteles Liber perihermenias. [Also known as De interpretatione. Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. d4r Averroes (Ibn Rushd) [Commentary on Liber perihermenias. Translated by Guilelmus de Luna.] Incipit: ‘[E]t oportet, ut dicamus primo quid est nomen et quid est verbum, deinde dicemus post hec, quid affirmatio et negatio et vniversaliter quid est enunciatio et oratio . . .’ See AL (1957), I 101 and CHLMP 60. e1r Aristoteles Analytica priora. ‘Liber .i. priorum analecticorum.’ [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. g1r Averroes (Ibn Rushd) ‘Commentarii in Libros priorum analecticorum.’ [Translated by Guilelmus de Luna.] Incipit: ‘[D]ixit: ‘Oportet vt nos incipiamus primo et enunciemus in re, de qua est inquisitio in hoc libro et in vtilitate inuenta in re quesita . . .’ See AL (1957), I 101 and CHLMP 60. k5r Aristoteles Analytica posteriora. ‘Liber primus posteriorum analecticorum.’ [Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] See A-385. m1r Averroes (Ibn Rushd) [Commentary on Analytica posteriora.] ‘Commentarii in posteriora analectica.’ [Translated by Guilelmus de Luna.] Incipit: ‘[D]ixit: Omnis doctrina et omnis disciplina productum est quidem per scientiam precedentem disciplinato . . .’ See AL (1957), I 101 and CHLMP 60. o1r Aristoteles Topica. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. [1r] Aristoteles De sophisticis elenchis. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. [8r] [Colophon with a list of contents and a note on the editor Nicoletus Vernias.] Volume 1, part II. AA1v Averroes (Ibn Rushd) [Preface to Physica. Translated by Theodorus Antiochenus.] Incipit: ‘[I]ntentio mea in hoc sermone est glosare librum Aris[totelis] qui dicitur auditus naturalis . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 761. AA2r [Aristoteles] Physica. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam quidem intelligere et scire contingit circa omnes scientias, quarum sunt principia cause et elementa ex horum cognitione tunc enim opinamur . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1296. The incipit corresponds to the ‘Translatio vetus’, ascribed to Jacobus Venetus by Minio-Paluello, ‘Jacobus Veneticus Grecus’, Opuscula, 189-228; see also AL (1957), I 52 and AL VII/1 (1990), pp. xv–xx; see also A-385. AA2r [Aristoteles] Physica. [Translated by Michael Scotus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam dispositio scientie et certitudinis in omnibus viis habentibus principia . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1273. AA2r [Averroes (Ibn Rushd) Commentary on Physica. Translated by Michael Scotus.] Incipit: ‘[I]ncepit hunc librum a causa propter quam fuit consideratio huius scientie in cognitione causarum rerum naturalium . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 721. The commentary alternates with the text of the two translations. See AL (1957), I 104. UU7r [Colophon.] Incipit: ‘Noue translationi de physico auditu et veteri ab Aueroi Cordubensi commentate . . .’ Volume 2, part I. 2a2r [Note on the contents.] 2a2r Aristoteles De caelo et mundo. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] See A-386. 2a2r Aristoteles De caelo et mundo. [Translated by Michael Scotus.] Incipit: ‘[M]axima cognitio nature et scientia demonstrans ipsam est in corporibus . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 852; Grabmann, Forschungen, 175-6 and Allan, ‘Mediaeval Versions of Aristotle’, 82. 2a2r Averroes (Ibn Rushd) [Commentary on De caelo et mundo. Translated by Michael Scotus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uia iste est liber primus, in quo loquitur de rebus sensibilibus naturalibus, scilicet in singulis partibus istius mundi . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1222. Commentary alternates with the text. See AL (1957), I 104-5. ee5r [First colophon.] Incipit: ‘Noue translationi librorum de celo et mundo siue de motu et veteri ab Aueroi Cordubensi commentate . . .’ ff1r Aristoteles De generatione et corruptione [Translatio vetus'].</locus_work> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See A-036.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>ff<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>[Commentary on <i>De generatione et corruptione</i>.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus.]</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Averroes, <i>Commentarium medium in Aristotelis De generatione et corruptione libros</i>, ed. Francis Howard Fobes and Samuel Kurland, Corpus commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem, Versionum latinarum, IV, 1, Mediaeval Academy of America, Publication no. 65 (Cambridge, Mass., 1956). The commentary alternates with the text. See <i>AL</i> (1957), I 106.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>gg<sub>9</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_anonwork>[Second colophon.]</locus_anonwork> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘Noue translationi librorum de generatione et corruptione ab Aueroi Cordubensi commentate . . .’</locus_incipit></locus> <locus><locus_locus>Volume 2, part II.</locus_locus></locus> <locus><locus_locus>A<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>De anima.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[B]onorum honorabilium noticiam opinantes magis autem alteram altera aut secundum certitudinem aut ex eo quod meliorum quidem et mirabiliorum est . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>A<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>De anima.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translated by Michael Scotus.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[Q]uoniam de rebus honorabilibus est scire de rebus aliquid . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See Thorndike–Kibre 1271.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>A<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>[Commentary on <i>De anima</i>.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus.]</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Averroes, <i>Commentarium magnum in Aristotelis De anima libros</i>, ed. F. Stuart Crawford, Corpus commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem, Versionum latinarum, VI, 1, Medieval Academy of America, Publication no. 59 (Cambridge, Mass., 1953). See Thorndike–Kibre 758. The commentary alternates with the two translations of the text. See <i>AL</i> (1957), I 106.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>H<sub>5</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_anonwork>[First Colophon.]</locus_anonwork> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘Noue translationi librorum anime et veteri ab Aueroi Hispano Cordubensi comentatate(!) . . .’</locus_incipit></locus> <locus><locus_locus>I<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Aristoteles]</locus_author> <locus_work>De sensu et sensato.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[Q]uoniam autem de anima secundum seipsam determinatum est et de virtutum qualibet ex parte ipsius consequens est . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>I<sub>4</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>Epitome of <i>De sensu et sensato</i>.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus?].</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk">Averroes, <i>Compendia librorum Aristotelis qui Parva Naturalia vocantur</i>, ed. Aemilia Ledyard Shields and Henricus Blumberg, Corpus commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem, Versionum latinarum, VII, Medieval Academy of America, Publication no. 54 (Cambridge, Mass., 1949), 3-44 ('Versio Vulgata'). See Thorndike–Kibre 1702. See <i>AL</i> (1957), I 106-7. On this translation see <i>Die Epitome der Parva Naturalia des Averroes</i>, ed. Helmut Gätje (Wiesbaden, 1961), pp. viii–ix and Bernard Dod, ‘Aristoteles Latinus', <i>CHLMP</i> 76.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>I<sub>5</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Aristoteles]</locus_author> <locus_work>De memoria et reminiscentia.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[D]e memoria autem et memorari dicendum quid et propter quam causam fit . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>I<sub>6</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>Epitome of <i>De memoria et reminiscentia</i>.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus?].</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk">ed. Shields and Henricus Blumberg (1949), 47-72 ('Versio Vulgata'). See Thorndike–Kibre 717; <i>AL</i> (1957), I 106-7. On this translation see <i>Die Epitome der Parva Naturalia des Averroes</i>, ed. Helmut Gätje (Wiesbaden, 1961), pp. viii–ix and Bernard Dod, ‘Aristoteles Latinus', <i>CHLMP</i> 76.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>I<sub>7</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Aristoteles]</locus_author> <locus_work>De somno et vigilia.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[D]e somno autem et vigilia considerandum est quid sint et vtrum anime vel corporis propria sint vel communia . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>K<sub>2</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>Epitome of <i>De somno et vigilia</i>.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus?].</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk">ed. Shields and Blumberg (1949), 75-125 ('Versio Vulgata'). See Thorndike–Kibre 516; <i>AL</i> (1957), I 106-7. On this translation see <i>Die Epitome der Parva Naturalia</i>, ed. Gätje, pp. viii–ix and Bernard Dod, ‘Aristoteles Latinus', <i>CHLMP</i> 76.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>K<sub>4</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Aristoteles]</locus_author> <locus_work>De longitudine et brevitate vitae.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[D]e eo autem quod est hoc quidem esse longe vite animalium, h[oc] autem breuis vite . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">[Translated by James of Venice; <i>AL</i> 16 [forthcoming].] See Thorndike–Kibre 372; also A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>K<sub>5</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Averroes (Ibn Rushd) </locus_author> <locus_work>Epitome of <i>De longitudine et brevitate vitae</i>.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus?].</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk">ed. Shields and Blumberg (1949), 129-49 ('Versio Vulgata'). See Thorndike–Kibre 681; <i>AL</i> (1957), I 106-7. On this translation see <i>Die Epitome der Parva Naturalia</i>, ed. Gätje, pp. viii–ix and Bernard Dod, ‘Aristoteles Latinus', <i>CHLMP</i> 76.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>K<sub>6</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>De substantia orbis.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translated by Michael Scotus.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[I]n hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus, ex quibus componitur corpus celeste . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk"><i>Comentario al ‘De substantia orbis' de Averroes por Alvaro de Toledo</i>, ed. Manuel Alonso (Madrid, 1941) (lemmata). See Thorndike–Kibre 681. See <i>AL</i> (1957), I 111.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>L<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Aristoteles]</locus_author> <locus_work>Meteorologica.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[D]e primis quidem igitur causis nature et de omni motu naturaliter adhuc autem de secundum superiorem lationem . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See Thorndike–Kibre 386. According to <i>AL</i> (1957), I 57, book IV is a revised version of the translation of Aristippus. On this edition see Hellmann, 2. See also A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>M<sub>4</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>[Aristoteles]</locus_author> <locus_work>Meteorologica, book IV.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translated by Michael Scotus?].</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[P]ostquam diuisum est quod principia elementorum que sunt secundum modum forme sunt quatuor . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See Thorndike–Kibre 1071. See <i>AL</i> (1957), I 57. On this edition see Hellmann, 2.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>M<sub>4</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>[Commentary on <i>Meteorologica</i>, book IV.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[D]ebes scire quod non debemus dubitare in hoc quod diximus, quod humiditas et siccitas sunt passiua . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">See Thorndike–Kibre 396. Commentary alternates with the two translations of the text. See <i>AL</i> (1957), I 106.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>N<sub>5</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_anonwork>[Second colophon.]</locus_anonwork> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘Noue translationi librorum Metheororum et veteri secundum quartum librum solum ab Aueroi Cordubensi commentate . . .’</locus_incipit></locus> <locus><locus_locus>Volume 3, part I.</locus_locus></locus> <locus><locus_locus>[*<sub>1</sub><sup>v</sup>]</locus_locus> <locus_author>[Vernias, Nicoletus</locus_author> <locus_work>Preface.]</locus_work> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[C]um superiori anno pro illustrissimo Venetorum senatu integerrimus vir Franciscus Sanutus . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">On Vernias see <i>CHPR</i> 839.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>[*<sub>2</sub><sup>r</sup>]</locus_locus> <locus_author>Vernias, Nicoletus</locus_author> <locus_txt>‘Quaestio.’</locus_txt> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[Q]uestio est an celum sit ex materia et forma constitutum . . .’</locus_incipit></locus> <locus><locus_locus>1<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>Metaphysica, book I, 1-5.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[O]mnes homines natura scire desiderant. Signum autem est sensuum dilectio . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">A reworking of the ‘Translatio anonyma sive Media'; see <i>Metaphysica</i>, ed. Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem, <i>AL</i> XXV 2 (1976), 7-20. See Thorndike–Kibre 986. See also A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>1<sub>2</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>Metaphysica, books I, 5–XII.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translation revised and book XI translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.]</locus_translator> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[E]x dictis quidem igitur de rationi consentientibus iam sapientibus hoc accepimus: a primis quidem principium esse corporeum . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">A reworking of the ‘Translatio anonyma sive Media'; see <i>Metaphysica</i>, ed. Vuillemin-Diem, 20-275. See also A-386.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>1<sub>2</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>Metaphysica, books I, 5–XII.</locus_work> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘[P]osuerunt principium cuiuslibet speciei corporum vnum . . .’</locus_incipit> <locus_standardedition line="bk">A translation called ‘vetus' in the colophon.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>1<sub>2</sub><sup>v</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Averroes (Ibn Rushd)</locus_author> <locus_work>[Commentary on <i>Metaphysica</i>, books I–XII.</locus_work> <locus_translator>Translated by Michael Scotus.]</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk"><i>Das neunte Buch . . . des lateinischen grossen Metaphysik-Kommentars von Averroes</i>, ed. Bernhard Burke (Bern, 1969). Commentary alternates with the two translations of the text. See <i>AL</i> (1957), I 110 and Bernard Dod, ‘Aristoteles Latinus', <i>CHLMP</i> 77.</locus_standardedition></locus> <locus><locus_locus>16<sub>6</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_anonwork>[Colophon.]</locus_anonwork> <locus_incipit><i>Incipit</i>: ‘Noue translationi librorum Metaphisyce et veteri ab Aueroi Cordubensi commentate . . .’</locus_incipit></locus> <locus><locus_locus>Volume 3, part II.</locus_locus></locus> <locus><locus_locus>A<sub>1</sub><sup>r</sup></locus_locus> <locus_author>Aristoteles</locus_author> <locus_work>Ethica Nicomachea.</locus_work> <locus_translator>[Translated by Robertus Grosseteste.]</locus_translator> <locus_standardedition line="bk"><i>Ethica Nicomachea</i>, ed. Renatus Antonius Gauthier, <i>AL</i> XXVI 1-3, either fasc. 3 (1972), 141-370 (
Recensio pura’) or fasc. 4 (1973), 375-588 (`Recensio ab anonymo recognita’). See also p. clxix no. 6. Books I–II and VIII–IX: Aristoteles over de menselijke volkomenheid. Boeken I en II van de Nikomachische Ethiek met de kommentaren van Eustratius en een anonymus in de Latinjse vertaling van Grosseteste, ed. H. P. F. Mercken, Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren 26,53 (Brussels, 1964) and Aristoteles over de vriendschap. Boeken VIII en IX van de Nicomachische Ethiek met de commentaren van Aspasius en Michaël in de Latinjse vertaling van Grosseteste, ed. Wilfried Stinissen, Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren 25/45 (Brussels, 1963). See AL (1957), I 69. On the translation see Grabmann, Forschungen, 220-37 and Parthenius Minges, ‘Robert Grosseteste Uebersetzer der Ethica Nicomachea’, Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, 32 (1919), 230-43, S. Troilo, ‘Due traduttori dell’Etica Nicomachea: Roberto di Lincoln e Leonardo Bruni’, Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 91/2 (1932), 275-305 and E. Franceschini, ‘Roberto Grossatesta, vescovo di Lincoln, e le sue traduzioni latine’, Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 93 (1933/4), II 1-138, at 51-6. Sometimes wrongly attributed to Henricus Krosbein; see R. A. Gauthier, L’Éthique à Nicomaque (Louvain, 1970), 143 and Grabmann, Methoden und Hilfsmittel, 92-5. D1r Averroes (Ibn Rushd) [Commentary on Ethica, books 1-10. Translated by Hermannus de Schildesche [Alemannus].] Incipit: ‘[D]ixit Aristoteles, quoniam omnis ars et omnis scientia et omnis actio et omnis electio rei est alicuius . . .’ See AL (1957), I 110-11. On the translation see G. H. Luquet, ‘Hermann l’Allemand’, Revue de l’histoire des religions, 44 (1901), 407-22 and Grabmann, Forschungen, 217-18; J. Korolec, ‘Le commentaire d’Averroes sur l’Ethique à Nicomaque’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 27 (1985), 104-7. L1r Aristoteles Politica. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Aristoteles, Politicorum libri octo cum vetusta translatione Guilelmi de Moerbeka, ed. Franciscus Susemihl (Leipzig, 1872); not the ‘Translatio prior imperfecta’: Politica, ed. Petrus Michaud-Quantin, AL XXIX, 1 (1961), 3-56. See AL (1957), I 75. On authorship see Grabmann, Forschungen, 238-40 and AL XXIX/1 (1961), pp. xii–xiv. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. Q2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Oeconomica. [Translated by Durandus de Alvernia.] Incipit: ‘[E]conomica et politica differunt non solum tantum quantum domus et ciuitas . . .’ Book I: Hermann Goldbrunner, ‘Durandus de Alvernia, Nicolaus von Oresme und Leonardo Bruni. Zu den Übersetzungen der pseudo-aristotelischen Ökonomik’, Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 50 (1968), 200-39, at 235-9. Book II: Maistre Nicole Oresme: Le livre de yconomique d’Aristote, ed. Albert Douglas Menut, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, NS 47/5 (Philadelphia, 1957), 781-853, at 850-2. See Flashar 223 and 292 and AL (1957), I 76. Translation ascribed to Guilelmus de Moerbeka by Menut 787-8. Grabmann, Forschungen, 240-2 and Hermann Goldbrunner, ‘Durandus de Alvernia, Nicolaus von Oresme und Leonardo Bruni. Zu den Übersetzungen der pseudo-aristotelischen Ökonomik’, Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 50 (1968), 200-39. Q5v [Colophon with note on the editor, Nicoletus Vernia.]
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A-388 Aristoteles Opera [Latin].
aa1r [Table of contents.] aa2r Democritus [Letter addressed to] Benedictus Fontana. Incipit: ‘[C]um tua indoles tuique animi virtutes, praestantissime iuuenis, id prae se ferant, ut tu solus et domui tuae et tibi nomen perenne perpetuumque nanciscaris . . .’ aa2r [Note to the reader with a claim of the Venetian printing privilege.] Incipit: ‘Habes, suauissime lector, hoc in uolumine omnia opera Aristotelis in unum coacta . . .’ aa2v Aristoteles [pseudo-] Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum Magnum. [Also known as Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, preface.] Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Incipit: ‘[A]ristotiles Alexandro bene agere. Misisti mihi quod saepe sustinuisti multos ad nos disceptantes pro eo, ut scriberem tibi methodes ciuilium sermonum . . .’ See A-386. Argyropoulos is mentioned as the translator in the table of contents. aa3r [Rhetorica ad Alexandrum.] Incipit: ‘[T]ria sunt genera ciuilium sermonum: hoc quidem contionale, hoc autem exclamatiuum, hoc autem disceptatiuum . . .’ First paragraph only. aa3v ‘Liber de vita Aristotelis.’ Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the Ancient Biographical Tradition, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 5 (Gothenburg, 1957), 151-8. See Thorndike–Kibre 138. BSB-Ink ascribes to Moerbeka. On the text see Grabmann, Forschungen, 250-1. a1r Argyropoulos, Johannes [Letter for the Physica addressed to], Petrus de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Argiropilus Bizantius magnifico uiro Petro Medico salutem plurimum dicit. Cum ad studiorum pristinam institutionem atque ad hunc librum tandem traducendum, ut nostris placuit, animum appulissem . . .’ a4r Aristoteles Physica. Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Dedicated to Piero de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[C]um circa omnes doctrinas quarum sunt principia uel causae uel elementa ex horum perceptione . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 286. On the translation see Giuseppe Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini e le origini dell’umanesimo. II: Giovanni Argiropulo (Florence, 1941), 183 and E. Garm, ‘Le traduzioni umanistiche di Aristotele nel secolo XV’, Atti e memorie dell’Accademia fiorentina di scienze morali La Colombaria, 16 (1947-50), 55-104, at 82-5. i1r Aristoteles Metaphysica. Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Dedicated to Cosimo de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[O]mnes homines natura appetunt scire, signum cuius est ipse sensuum amor . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 985. On the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 184. q1r Argyropoulos, Johannes [Letter for De caelo et mundo], addressed to Johannes [Vitesius], Archbishop of Esztergom. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Argiropilus Bizantius reuerendissimo patri Joanni Panono archiepiscopo Strigoniensi salutem perpetuamque f&oe;licitatem. Si res praeclare uiris insignibus probitate sunt offerendae . . .’ q1v Aristoteles De caelo et mundo. Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Dedicated to Johannes [Vitesius], Archbishop of Esztergom. Incipit: ‘[S]cientia naturalis fere plurima circa corpora, magnitudines atque horum affectus motusue . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1403. On the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 183. u1r Argyropoulos, Johannes [Letter for De anima], addressed to Cosimo de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Argiropilus Bizantius magnifico uiro Cosmae Medici salutem plurimam dicit. Hominem ut te non praeterit, magnifice atque honoratissime Cosma, non sua fortuito causa procreauit . . .’ u2r Aristoteles De anima. Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Dedicated to Cosimo de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[C]um omnem scientiam rem esse bonam arbitremur ac honorabilem et aliam alia magis ex eo talem esse putemus . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 324. On the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 183. z1r Marsus, Petrus [Letter addressed to] Virginius Orsinus. Carlo Frati, ‘Le traduzioni aristoteliche di G. Argiropulo e un’antica legatura medicea’, Bibliofilia, 19 (1917-18), 1-25, at 6-7. z2r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. ‘De moribus ad Nicomachum.’ Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina atque actus itidem et electio bonum quoddam appetere uidetur . . .’ For the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 183. D1r Aristoteles [pseudo-;author Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus] ‘Liber de moribus.’ [Also known as Isagoge in Aristotelis librum De moribus ad Eudemum.] Dedicated to Galeotto [Ricasoli]. Leonardus Brunus, Opere letterarie e politiche, ed. Paolo Viti (Turin, 1996), 200-40; Bruni, Schriften, 20-41. See Lohr (1971), 316-20, at 317-18 no. 1. D6r Argyropoulos, Johannes [Letter for the Universalia addressed to] Piero de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Argyropilus Bizantius praeclarissimo uiro Petro Medico florentino salutem plurimum dicit. Memini me iamdudum, magnificentissime Petre, librum Aristotelis de interpraetatione et priorum eam primam partem qua rationcinationis(!) ortus exprimitur tua traduxisse causa . . .’ D6v Porphyrius Liber quinque praedicabilium. [Also known as Isagoge.] ‘De quinque uocibus.’ Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Incipit: ‘[C]um necessarium sit, Chrisaori, et ad Aristotelis praedicamentorum doctrinam quidnam sit genus cognoscere . . .’ For the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 184. E4v Aristoteles Liber praedicamentorum. [Also known as Categoriae.] Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Dedicated to Piero de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[E]quiuoca dicuntur ea, quorum nomen solum commune est, ratio uero substantiae nomini accomodata diuersa . . .’ For the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 184. F4v Aristoteles Liber perihermenias. [Also known as De interpretatione.] [Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimo definire oportet quid nam sit nomen et quid uerbum, deinde quid negatio, quid affirmatio, quid enunciatio, quid denique oratio sit . . .’ For the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 183. G4v Gilbertus Porretanus [pseudo-] De sex principiis. Reworked by Hermolaus Barbarus. PL CLXXXVIII 1257-70. See Thorndike–Kibre 1315. On authorship see L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Magister sex principiorum’, Studi medievali, 3rd ser., 6/2 (1965), 123-51 (Opuscula, 536-4), AL (1957), I 95, Lohr (1968), 166 and PAL 77 no. 86. Hermolaus is mentioned as the translator in the table of contents. H1r Aristoteles Analytica priora. [Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos.] Incipit: ‘[P]rima dicere oportet circa quid et cuiusnam sit haec praesens consideratio, atque est circa demonstrationem et est scientiae demonstrandi . . .’ For the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 183. I8v Argyropoulos, Johannes [Letter for the Analytica posteriora addressed to] Cosimo de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Argyropilus Bizantius magnifico uiro Cosme Medici salutem perpetuamque f&oe;licitatem. Ut tibi semel promisi ita facio, magnifice Cosma, atque neque munus docendi neque calamitas generis . . .’ K1r Aristoteles Analytica posteriora. ‘Liber posteriorum resolutiuorum.’ Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis doctrina omnisque disciplina intellectiua ex antecedenti cognitione fieri solet . . .’ For the translation see Cammelli, I dotti Bizantini, 183. P1r Aristoteles Topica. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. T7v Aristoteles De sophisticis elenchis. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. X3v Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus ‘Prologus.’ [Letter for the Politica addressed to Martinus V, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 75-6. X3v Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus ‘Proemium in libros Politicorum.’ Bruni, Schriften, 73-4. X4v Aristoteles Politica. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uonia(!) uidemus omnem ciuitatem esse societatem quandam . . .’ Leonardus is mentioned as the translator in the table of contents. EE1v Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus [Letter for the Oeconomica addressed to] Cosimo de’ Medici. Bruni, Schriften, 120-1. EE2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Oeconomica. Partly translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[R]es familiaris et res publica inter se differunt non solum quantum domus et ciuitas . . .’ Bruni translated books I, and III only: book III not in Bekker’s Greek edition, the Latin published as book II by Valentin Rose, Aristotelis qui fereuntur fragmenta (Leipzig, 1886) fragment 184. See Flashar 223 and 292. On the translation see Hermann Goldbrunner, ‘Durandus de Alvernia, Nicolaus von Oresme und Leonardo Bruni. Zu den Übersetzungen der pseudo-aristotelischen Ökonomik’, Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 50 (1968), 200-39. Leonardus is mentioned as the translator in the table of contents. See also J. Soudek, ‘The Genesis and Tradition of Leonardo Bruni’s Annotated Version of the (pseudo-)Aristotelian Economics’, Scriptorium, 12 (1958), 260-8; idem, ‘Leonardo Bruni and his Public: A Statistical and Interpretative Study of his Annotated Latin Version of the (pseudo-)Aristotelian Economics’, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 5 (1968), 51-136; idem, ‘A Fifteenth-century Humanist Bestseller: The Manuscript Diffusion of Leonardo Bruni’s Annotated Version of the (pseudo-)Aristotelian Economics’, in Philosophy and Humanism: Renaissance Essays in Honor of P. O. Kristeller, ed. E. P. Mahoney (Leiden, 1976), 129-43. EE5r Aristoteles De sensu et sensato. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem de anima secundum seipsam determinatum est prius et de uirtute qualibet ex parte ipsius conueniens est . . .’ See A-386. FF3r Aristoteles De memoria et reminiscentia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e memoria autem memorari dicendum quid est et propter quam causam sit . . .’ See A-386. FF5r Aristoteles De somno et vigilia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e somno autem et uigilia considerandum est quid sint et utrum animae uel corporis propria sint uel communia . . .’ See A-386. GG2r Aristoteles De motu animalium. ‘De motibus animalium.’ [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] See A-386. GG5v Aristoteles De longitudine et brevitate vitae. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e eo autem quod est hoc quidem esse longae uitae animalium, hoc autem breuis uitae . . .’ See A-386. GG7r Aristoteles De iuventute et senectute. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e iuuentute autem et senectute et uita et morte nunc dicendum . . .’ See A-386. GG8v Aristoteles De respiratione et inspiratione. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium autem quoniam haec quidem sunt aquatilia, haec autem in aere faciunt dietam . . .’ See A-386. HH5r Aristoteles De vita et morte. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[E]st quidem igitur omnibus animalibus commune generatio et mors, modi autem differunt specie . . .’ See A-386. HH6r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Physiognomia. [Translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina.] See A-386. II4r Aristoteles De bona fortuna. Incipit: ‘[H]abitum autem utique erit hiis dicere quoniam de foelicitate est sermo de bona fortuna . . .’ See A-386. II5v Aristoteles [pseudo-] De coloribus. [Translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina.] Incipit: ‘[S]implices colorum sunt quicunque aelementis consequuntur, ut igni et aeri et aquae et terrae . . .’ See A-386. II7r Aristoteles De plantis. Incipit: ‘[I]n omnibus autem plantis principium colorum herbeum est enim palmites et frondes et fructus fiunt in principio herbei . . .’ In other editions printed as the last section of De coloribus. KK1v Aristoteles [pseudo-;author Nicolaus Damascenus] De plantis. [Also known as De vegetabilibus. Translated by Alfredus de Sareshel (Shareshill).] Incipit: ‘[T]ria enim, ut ait Empedocles, in tota rerum uarietate praecipue excellentissimum diuinae munificentiae donum . . .’ See A-386. LL1r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De lineis indivisibilibus. Incipit: ‘[V]trum sunt indiuisibiles lineae et totaliter in omnibus quantis est aliquid impartibile, quemadmodum quidam aiunt . . .’ See A-386. LL3v Aristoteles De inundatione Nili. ‘De Nilo.’ See A-386. LL4v Aristoteles [pseudo-] De proprietatibus elementorum. [Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.] S. L. Vodraska, ‘Pseudo-Aristotle, De causis proprietatum et elementorum’, Ph.D. Thesis, University of London, 1969. De causis proprietatum elementorum, ed. Paul Hossfeld, Alberti Magni Opera omnia, V/2 (Münster, 1980), 47-103. See Thorndike–Kibre 1076. On the translation see AL (1957), I 91-2, Grabmann, Forschungen, 249 and PAL 20 no. 14. MM2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De pomo. Translated by Manfredus, son of Fridericus II. Incipit: ‘[C]um homo creaturarum dignissima similitudo sit omnium ad imaginem Dei factus . . .’ See A-386. MM5v Aristoteles [pseudo-] De intelligentia. [Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] Incipit: ‘[C]um rerum quidem omnium esse secundum primum est diuersumque et multiplex et idem esset . . .’ See A-386. MM7r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De mundo. [Translated by Nicolaus Siculus.] W. L. Lorimer, The Text Tradition of Pseudo-Aristotle ‘De mundo’ (Oxford, 1924), 43-95 (Siculus). De mundo, ed. Willelmus L. Lorimer, AL XI,11-2 (1965), 29-49. See Thorndike–Kibre 891. On authorship see Jill Kraye, ‘Aristotle’s God and the Authenticity of “De mundo”: an Early Modern Controversy’, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 28 (1990), 339-58. On the Latin translations see L. Minio-Paluello, ‘Note sull’Aristotele Latino Medievale. III. I due traduttori medievali del De Mundo: Nicola Siculo (Greco) collaboratore di Roberto Grossatesta e Bartolomeo da Messina’, Rivista di filosofia neo-scolastica, 42 (1950), 232-7 (Opuscula 108-13). On the textual transmission see W. L. Lorimer, The Text Tradition of Pseudo-Aristotle ‘De mundo’ (Oxford, 1924), 26-8. On the translation see AL (1957), I 89-90. NN4r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De causis. ‘De causa.’ See A-386. OO2r Valla, Georgius [Letter to] Justus [Lelianus] de Justis. Incipit: ‘[N]omen, Juste, tuum singulare lenitas praecipua tuae erga me beniuolentiae crebro abs te repetita memoria . . .’ See J. L. Heiberg, Beiträge zur Geschichte Georg Valla’s und seiner Bibliothek, Beihefte zum Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 16 (Leipzig, 1896), 49, and 83. OO2v Aristoteles Magna moralia. Translated by Georgius Valla. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam de pertinentibus ad mores dicere constituimus, primum cuiusnam rei pars sit mos ducimus considerandum . . .’ Magna Moralia. G. Valla interprete (1831). Valla is mentioned as the translator in the table of contents.
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First copy Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco over modern boards. Size: 332 × 230 × 85 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 212 mm. Manuscript title on the lower edge. Provenance: Giuseppe Alberto Martini (1870-1944); ‘Martini, Lucca, cat. V 1899′, no. 12 on cutting on front pastedown. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 318. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. A 4.14. Second copy Wanting QQ6. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf imitating earlier style; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; rebacked. Size: 307 × 213 × 80 mm. Size of leaf: 294 × 193 mm. Copious early marginal notes. Provenance: On aa3v: ‘Sarzholphius'(?). Acquired after 1738 but by 1835; Catalogus (1843), I 114. Former Bodleian shelfmark: D 8.3 Art. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.18.
A-389 Aristoteles De anima (trans. Johannes Argyropoulos).
a1r ‘Epigramma extemporarium in Aristotelis de anima libros.’ ‘Pythia fatidici monuere oracula Phoebi &pipe; Delphica quin etiam marmora sculpta ferunt’; 14 elegiac distichs. a1v Mosnauer, Wolfgang, Liberalium Disciplinarum Magister [Letter to] Georgius Puecher. Incipit: ‘[E]giptiorum theologia et casu et fortuna hominum ceterorumque animalium productionem factam est terra dicebat . . .’ a2r Aristoteles De anima. Edited and with marginal notes by Wolfgang Mosnauer. Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Incipit: ‘[C]um omnem scientiam rem esse bonam arbitremur ac honorabilem et aliam alia magis ex eo talem esse putemus . . .’ See A-388. h6r [Note on errata.] h6r [Colophon.] h6v ‘Ad lectorem epygramma in nouam Aristotelis librorum de anima translationem.’ ‘Mancus Aristoteles ueteris quoque sordidus author &pipe; Barbarie paucis ante legendus erat’; 7 elegiac distichs.
Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 23 Oct. [1500?]. 4°. a–g4 h6. Woodcut initials. GW 2346;HC *1708;Goff A-972;BMC V 566;Pr 5588;BSB-Ink A-676; Sheppard 4681.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half olive morocco; marbled pastedowns; bound for Bywater. Size: 208 × 152 × 11 mm. Size of leaf: 204 × 144 mm. On a1r part of the Creed in Spanish written in a sixteenth-century hand. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); armorial book-plate; Elenchus, no. 361. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 1.5.
A-390 Aristoteles De animalibus (trans. Theodorus Gaza).
a2r Theodorus Graecus Thessalonicensis [I.e. Theodorus Gaza Letter for the De animalibus addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[L]ycurgum Lacedemonium, qui leges ciuibus suis constituit, reprehendunt nonnulli . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 840; on Gaza’s translation see Livia Martinoli Santini, ‘Le traduzioni dal greco’, in Un pontificato ed una città, 81-101, at 81-4, and note 18; John Monfasani, ‘The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle’s De Animalibus in the Renaissance’, in Natural Particulars: Names and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, ed. Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1999), 205-47. a7v Aristoteles Historia animalium, nine books. Edited by Ludovicus Podocatharus. Translated by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium partes aut incomposite sunt quae scilicet in similes sibi partes diuiduntur ut caro in carnes . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 99. p1r Aristoteles De partibus animalium. Edited by Ludovicus Podocatharus. Translated by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[I]n omni contemplandi genere omnique tum nobiliori, tum ignobiliori docendi uia et ratione . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 699. On the translation see S. Perfetti, ‘Cultius atquae integrius’: Theodoro Gaza, traduttore umanistico del De partibus animalium’, Rinascimento, 2nd ser. 35 (1995), 253-86. u4r Aristoteles De generatione animalium. Edited by Ludovicus Podocatharus. Translated by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[C]um de caeteris animalium partibus tum summatim, tum singulatim seorsum de propriis generis cuiusque dictum iam sit . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 289. ff4v [Colophon with note on the editor.]
Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1476. Folio. a b10 c d8 e–k10.8 l–t10 u8 x10 aa–dd10 ee8 ff6. GW 2350;HC *1699;Goff A-973;BMC V 232;Pr 4312;BSB-Ink A-678; CIBN A-521; Osler IM, 106; Rhodes 140; Sheppard 3479-81.
First copy Wanting the blank leaves a1 and ff6. Binding: Late eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf, probably for the Bodleian Library marbled pastedowns; edges gilt; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; rebacked. Size: 299 × 215 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 287 × 190 mm. In the registrum: ‘Id quod’ supplied in manuscript for gathering dd. Provenance: Regensburg, Bavaria, unidentified monastery; ‘Conventus ratisponensis’ on a2r. Purchased for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1797), 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.21. Second copy Leaf a1 bound after c8, a10 bound after d8. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library in 1855 at a cost of £0. 12. 0; see Binders’ books (1855, Auct. and Rawl.), p. 1, no. 9 (Library Records d. 1203). Size: 310 × 215 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 298 × 192 mm. Running heading with numbers of books for books I–IX. On a sheet of paper now used as the rear pastedown, a handwritten alphabet of initials in red. In the registrum: ‘Id quod’ supplied in manuscript for gathering dd. Initials and paragraph are marks supplied in red; some red capital strokes. Provenance: Attel, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Michael; ‘Monasterii Attl’ on a2r. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.26. Third copy Wanting the blank leaves a1 and ff6. Binding: Gold-tooled blue morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 312 × 215 × 58 mm. Size of leaf: 297 × 194 mm. Early running headings. In the registrum: ‘Id quod’ supplied in manuscript for gathering dd. Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 378. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. A 5.15.
A-391 Aristoteles De animalibus (trans. Theodorus Gaza).
A1v [Table of contents.] A5r Theodorus Graecus Thessalonicensis [I.e. Theodorus Gaza Letter for De animalibus addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[L]ycurgum Lacedemonium, qui leges ciuibus suis constituit, reprehendunt nonnulli . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 840. a1r Aristoteles Historia animalium, nine books. Edited with chapter headings by Sebastianus Manilius. Translated by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium partes aut incompositae sunt quae scilicet in similes sibi partes diuiduntur ut caro in carnes . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 99. i6v Aristoteles De partibus animalium. Edited with chapter headings by Sebastianus Manilius. Translated by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[I]n omni contemplandi genere omnique tum nobiliori, tum ignobiliori docendi uia et ratione . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 699. n5v Aristoteles De generatione animalium. Edited with chapter headings by Sebastianus Manilius. Translated by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[C]um de caeteris animalium partibus tum summatim, tum singulatim seorsum de propriis generis cuiusque dictum iam sit . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 289. s4r [Colophon with note on the editor.]
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 Nov. 1492. Folio. A6 a–r6 s4. Woodcut border on a1r. GW 2351;HC Addenda *1700;Goff A-974;BMC V 343;Pr 4527;BSB-Ink A-679; Essling 677; Hillard 177; Rhodes 141; Sack, Freiburg, 267; Sander 588; Sheppard 3893.
Copy Woodcut border on a1r cropped. Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth century English marbled pasteboards, for Thomas Rawlinson(?); see A-628(1); the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 268 × 200 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 262 × 187 mm. Copious sixteenth-century marginal notes by various hands, some in Greek. Provenance: Leonard Barton read by Sheppard as Baxter; on s4v: ‘Leonardi Barton’. William Tyldesley (fl. 1528-1534); on s4v: ‘G. [Guilelmus] Tyldisleyus possessor’. Francis Bolderow (†1574); name on A1r: F. Bolderowe’; J. Hatcher; on A1r: ‘J. Hatcherus me possidet’; probably John Hatcher (†1587), but not in the list of his books edited by E. Leedham-Green, Books in Cambridge Inventories: Booklists from Vice-Chancellor’s Court Probate: Inventories in the Tudor and Stuart Periods (Cambridge, 1986), I 367-82. Edward Couchman (†1603/4); name on A1r: ‘Edward Couchman oneth this booke’. Unidentified owners: Bagshaw, possibly Edward Bagshaw (1629-1671); William Aster (fifteenth/sixteenth century); on A1r: ‘Guli[elmi] Asteri liber teste Domino bagshaw q[ui] mihi hunc librum dedit’. T. Stanlowe; name on A1r in a sixteenth-century hand. William Parkyn; on A1r: ‘Wylhelmus Parkyn me possidet’. Christopher Jackson; name on s4v; ‘Christophori Jacsoni’. Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725); sale (13 Nov. 1732), part of lot 2365; the note ‘C. & P./’ on front pastedown; see Oldham, Shrewsbury School Bindings, 104 no. 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.19.
A-392 Aristoteles De animalibus (trans. Theodorus Gaza).
a2r [Table of contents.] a5r Theodorus Graecus Thessalonicensis [I.e. Theodorus Gaza Letter for De animalibus addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[L]ycurgum Lacedaemonium, qui leges ciuibus suis constituit, reprehendunt nonnulli . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 840. b1r Aristoteles Historia animalium, nine books. ‘De natura animalium.’ Translated with chapter headings by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium partes aut incompositae sunt quae scilicet in similes sibi partes diuiduntur ut caro in carnes . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 99. i4v Aristoteles De partibus animalium. Translated with chapter headings by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[I]n omni contemplandi genere omnique tum nobiliori, tum ignobiliori docendi uia et ratione . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 699. m6r Aristoteles De generatione animalium. Translated with chapter headings by Theodorus [Gaza]. Incipit: ‘[C]um de caeteris animalium partibus tum summatim, tum singulatim seorsum de propriis generis cuiusque dictum iam sit . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 289.
Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, for Octavianus Scotus, 9 Aug. 1498. Folio. a–q6. Woodcut initials. GW 2353;HC *1703;Goff A-976;BMC V 433;Pr 5341;BSB-Ink A-681; CIBN A-522; Rhodes 142; Sheppard 4175.
Copy Bound with A-100; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 309 × 207 mm. SHELFMARK: A 1.11(1) Art. Seld.
A-393 Aristoteles De caelo et mundo.
a2r Thomas Aquinas/Petrus de Alvernia Expositio super libros de caelo et mundo Aristotelis. Edited by Hermannus de Virsen. Thomas Aquinas, In Aristotelis libros De caelo et mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteorologicorum expositio, ed. Raymundus M. Spiazzi (Turin and Rome, 1952), 1-311 (commentary on books I–III,8). See Lohr (1972), 334-46, at 337-8 no. 4 and (1973), 159-72, at 166 no. 6. See Thorndike–Kibre 1495. Commentary on books I–III,8 by Thomas Aquinas, on books III,9-4 by Petrus de Alvernia. a2v Aristoteles De caelo et mundo. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] See A-386. k6r [Note on the commentators and the editor.] Incipit: ‘Hic finit commentum diui Thome de Aquino ordinis predicatorum super duos libros De celo et mundo . . .’
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 18 Aug. 1495. Folio. a–h8 i k6. Woodcut initials and diagrams. GW 2355;H *1689 = 1531;Goff A-978;BMC V 445;not in Pr;BSB-Ink A-682; Essling 858; Rhodes 144; Sander 582; Sheppard 4217.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards covered with Buntpapier. Brown morocco strip of earlier spine, with the title, pasted on the spine. Size: 314 × 220 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 312 × 212 mm. Provenance: Paulus Nicolaus Serranus (sixteenth century(?)); ‘F. Pauli Nicolai Serrani’; stamp on a1r. Like other books owned by Serranus, this one probably passed to the Biblioteca Comunale Serrasanquirico, although the endleaves which used to be marked with the library stamp have been lost due to rebinding. Bought by Ingram Bywater (1840-1914) from Bocca in Nov. 1913; cutting from sale catalogue; Elenchus, no. 347a. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. A 5.10.
A-394 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (three versions trans. Johannes Argyropoulos, Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, and Robertus Grosseteste).
a1v [Faber] Stapulensis, Jacobus [Letter addressed to] Johannes Rellicus, Bishop of Angers. Rice 41-5. a2r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. ‘Opus de moribus ad Nicomachum.’ Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina atque actus itidem et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ See A-388. a2r [Faber] Stapulensis, Jacobus [Commentary on the Ethica.] Incipit: ‘Primi capitis note. Primum argumentum decem librorum se offert cognoscendum . . .’ See Lohr (1976), 731. n8r [First colophon.] n8v [Note on the use of Greek words.] Incipit: ‘In sequentibus libris interdum paucula vocabula Greca interseruimus . . .’ n8v Gonterius, G[uillermus] ‘Ad lectorem.’ ‘Est opus ductore iter vt capessis &pipe; Haud secus morum vt studium assequaris’; 15 hendecasyllables. Rice 45, note 5. Includes acknowledgement of the corrections of David [Lauxius] Britannus. o1r [Faber] Stapulensis, Jacobus [Letter addressed to] Guilelmus Budaeus. Rice 45-50. o1v ‘Concordantia Magnorum Moralium Aristotelis et Ethicorum eiusdem per numeros facta.’ o2r Aristoteles Magna moralia. Translated by Georgius Valla. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam de pertinentibus ad mores dicere constituimus, primum cuiusnam rei pars sit mos ducimus considerandum . . .’ q2v Aristoteles [pseudo-;author Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus] ‘Dialogus de moribus.’ [Also known as Isagoge in Aristotelis librum De moribus ad Eudemum.] Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Dedicated to Galeotto [Ricasoli]. See A-388. q6v [Second colophon.] 2a1r Baptista Mantuanus ‘Virtutis querimonia.’ ‘Fortune domitrix ego sum scelerumque flagellum &pipe; Utque hominem tuear superumque in tecta reportem’; 39 hexameters. a1v [Faber] Stapulensis, Jacobus ‘Introductio in Ethicen Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to Germanus de Ganay, Dean of Beauvais. Rice 23-6; see Lohr (1976), 730. a10v [Colophon.] 3a1r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ For the translation see S. Troilo, ‘Due traduttori dell’Etica Nicomachea: Roberto di Lincoln e Leonardo Bruni’, Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 91/2 (1932), 275-305 and H. B. Gerl, Philosophie und Philologie: Leonardo Brunis Übertragung der Nikomachischen Ethik in ihren philosophischen Prämissen (Munich, 1981). e4v [Colophon.] A1r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Robertus Grosseteste.] See A-387. E6r ‘Indices operum hic contentorum.’ E6v [Colophon.] E6v [Faber] Stapulensis, J[acobus] ‘Carmen.’ Dedicated to Paulus Emilius. ‘Quid virtus? Quod sol medio clarissimus orbe. &pipe; Quid virtus? Phebe tota nitidissima nocte; 23 hexameters.’ Rice 49-50.
Paris: Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl, 1496; 12 Apr. 1497. Folio.For the dating of this edition see BMC. a–p8 q6 2a10 3a–d8 e4 A–D8 E6. On a1r a woodcut frame for title. Woodcut diagrams. GW 2359;HC 1761 (incl. H 1750, H 6835); C 631;Goff A-991;BMC VIII 138;Oates 3034; Rhodes 151; Sack, Freiburg, 271; Sheppard 6350.
Copy Bound with:&br;2. Raymundus de Sabunde, Theologia naturalis. Strasbourg: Martin Flach, 21 Jan. 1496 (R-018). Binding: Late sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, two metal clasps and catches. On both covers fillets form a double frame. In the inner rectangle a triangular floral stamp in each corner and a small lozenge-shaped floral stamp in the centre; in the frames two ornamental rolls. Blue-edged leaves. Size: 273 × 210 × 68 mm. Size of leaf: 257 × 195 mm. A few early marginal notes. Provenance: Weiden, Bavaria, Jesuits; ‘Soc[ietat]is Jesu Weid[ensis] on [*1r] of item 2. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 423. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 398/2835. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. B 2.10(1).
A-395 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Johannes Argyropoulos).
a2r Marsus, Petrus [Letter addressed to Virginius Orsinus.] Carlo Frati, ‘Le traduzioni aristoteliche di G. Argiropulo e un’antica legatura medicea’, Bibliofilia, 19 (1917-18), 1-25, at 6-7. a4r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. ‘Opus de moribus ad Nicomachum.’ Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos [for Cosimo de’ Medici.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina atque actus itidem et electio bonum quoddam appetere uidetur . . .’ See A-388.
Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1 Sept. 1492. Folio. a–c8 d6 e–g8 h6 i–n8. GW 2363;H *1756;Pr 3856;BSB-Ink A-686; Rhodes 146; Sheppard 3057.
Copy Binding: Half mottled calf by Fuchs. ‘Fuchs’ stamped at tail of the lower cover. Size: 290 × 220 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 282 × 203 mm. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; armorial book-plate (Warnecke 1389). Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 10. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 5Q 2.38. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.17.
A-396 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Johannes Argyropoulos).
a2r Argyropoulos, Johannes [Letter addressed to] Cosimo de’ Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Argyropylus Bizantius clarissimo viro Cosmae Medici salutem. Si ea mihi seruanda sunt erga te, que iam olim institui . . .’ a4r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. ‘De moribus ad Nicomachum.’ Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos for Cosimo de’ Medici. With chapter summaries by Aegidius Delphus. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina atque actus itidem et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ See A-388. p5r [Note on the work and on the contribution by Aegidius Delphus.] p5v Aegidius Delphus ‘Sepe mihi stupidam tenet admiratio mentem &pipe; Cur pauci viuant conditione pari’. 20 elegiac distichs. p6v ‘Tabula.’
[Paris]: Georg Wolf, for Enguilbert De Marnef, 16 Apr. 1493. 4°.The British Library copy has device of De Marnef on a1r. Copies described by H and GW are without the device. a–o8 p10. GW 2364;H *1757;Goff, Supplement, A-982a;BMC VIII 146;not in Pr;BSB-Ink A-688; Oates 3091; Rhodes 147; Sack, Freiburg, 270; Sheppard 6363.
Copy Device of De Marnef on a1r. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns. Size: 206 × 139 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 130 mm. In gathering a numerous early marginal and interlinear notes. In gatherings a–d, initials (with occasional pen flourishing) and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in ink. Provenance: Limay/Mantes, Celestines; on p9v: ‘Iste liber est celestinorum prope Meduntam sic signatus 382′ in an early hand, on a1r sixteenth/seventeenth-century inscription of ownership. Henry Wilson (1797-1866); armorial book-plate, Howe, Book Plates, 32081; sale (1914), lot 84. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); armorial book-plate; Elenchus, no. 397b. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 1.33.
A-397 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
[a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Preface to Ethica Nicomachea.] Bruni, Schriften, 76-81. [a3v] Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ See A-394. [i10r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Letter addressed to Martinus V, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 75-6. [k1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Proemium in libros Politicorum.] Bruni, Schriften, 73-4. [k1v] [Aristoteles Politica. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam videmus omnem ciuitatem esse societatem quandam . . .’ [v8r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Letter addressed to Cosimo de’ Medici.] Bruni, Schriften, 120-1. [v8v] [Aristoteles pseudo- Oeconomica. Partly translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[R]es familiaris et r[es] p[ublica] inter se differunt non solum quantum domus et ciuitas . . .’ See A-388. [x6v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Letter addressed to Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 70-3. [x7v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Letter addressed to the ‘signori’ of Siena.] Bruni, Schriften, 143. Francesco Paolo Luiso, Studi su l’epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, Studi storici, 122-4 (Rome, 1980), 140-1. Text dated Florence, 24 Nov. 1438. [x8r] [`Signori’ of Siena Letter addressed to Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[S]pectabilis ac clarissime vir, accepimus summo cum gaudio vestrum hoc munus Politicorum, quod Bertus noster, vester vt clare fatetur a diu filius ac discipulus nobis vestro nomine obtulit . . .’ Letter dated Siena, 28 Dec. 1438. See Luiso, Studi su l’epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, 141 n. 16, and 183 no. 41.
[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, before 10 Apr. 1469]. Folio. [a b10 c d8 e–g10 h12 i–n10 o8 p6 q–t10 v x8]. GW 2367;H *1762;Goff A-983;BMC I 53;Pr 224;BSB-Ink A-685; CIBN A-512; Hillard 178; Oates 86-7; Rhodes 148; Sack, Freiburg, 269; Schorbach, Mentelin, 13; Sheppard 136-8.
First copy Collation as GW, not as BMC. Variants on [e1r]: ‘[D]E iu&longs;ticia et iniu&longs;ticia con&longs;iderandum e&longs;t [et] &pipe; c’ca quas res exi&longs;t¯ona;t [et] qual’ mediocritas &pipe; . . .’ Binding: Gold-tooled blue morocco by Bozérian le Jeune. Size: 293 × 215 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 282 × 195 mm. Initials are supplied in red and occasionally in blue; red capital strokes. Provenance: Purchased for £12. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.18. Second copy Collation as GW, not as BMC. Variants on [e1r]: ‘[D]E iu&longs;ticia et iniu&longs;ticia con&longs;iderandum e&longs;t et &pipe; circa quas res exi&longs;t¯ona;t [et] qualis medioc’tas &longs;it &pipe; . . .’ Binding: Contemporary French blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; four clasps lost; rebacked. On both covers fillets form a triple frame; in the inner rectangle strapwork in lozenge patterns, in the inner frame strapwork, in the outer a roll. Size: 305 × 215 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 290 × 198 mm. Initials are supplied in red, occasionally in blue. Provenance: Purchased for £3. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1854), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.18. Third copy Wanting the blank leaves [d8] and [m10]. Collation as GW, not as BMC. Variants on [e1r]: ‘[D]E iu&longs;ticia et iniu&longs;ticia con&longs;iderandum e&longs;t et &pipe; c’ca quas res exi&longs;t¯ona;t [et] qualis medioc’tas &longs;it &pipe; . . .’ Binding: Nineteenth-century half blind-tooled calf. Size: 270 × 200 × 43 mm. Size of leaf: 260 × 180 mm. On [a1r] a German ten-line initial is supplied in blue with white highlighting on gold ground, within a segmented frame of red and pale green, and with a foliate border extending into the inner margin in red and pale green, including some gold dotting. Principal initials are supplied mainly in blue or green with some pen flourishing and floral extensions; other initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes. Provenance: Henry William Chandler (1828-1889); given by Chandler to Bywater in 1880. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 396. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. B 2.9.
A-398 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
[a1r] Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere uidetur . . .’ See A-394.
[Bologna: Ugo Rugerius?, c.1475]. 4°.Tentatively assigned to [Hannibal Malpiglius] in BMC. [a–i10].Collation as BMC, not as GW. GW 2369;HCR 1742; H 1744?;Goff A-986;BMC VI 806;Pr 6532;Rhodes 149; Sheppard 5311.
Copy Binding: Quarter parchment. Size: 243 × 176 × 20 mm. Sixteenth-century marginal notes. Foliation, chapter numbers, and running headings in red, occasional underlining, all by the same hand as the marginal notes. Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), I no. 1213; sale (1789), lot 6124. In the annotated sale catalogue marked down to Molini for £1. 1. 0; see also the note by Heber below; possibly the ‘Peter Molini’ who, according to Clarke, Repertorium Bibliographicum, 499, assisted the booksellers Robson and Edwards with the Pinelli sale. Unidentified sale, London: King’s, June 1806, purchased by Heber; ‘This same copy was bought by Molini at the Pinelli sale for £1. 1. 0. Sale at King’s, June 1806′, note by Heber; the complete lot purchased by Heber for £0. 3. 6, according to the price annotated in red ink in Heber’s sale catalogue. Richard Heber (1773-1833); Catalogue, 7 (1835), part of lot 255, sold for £0. 4. 6. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, possibly pt IV, lot 205. Cornelius Paine (1809-1890); book-plate; sale (1891), lot 266. Robert William Chapman (1881-1960); ex libris. Acquired in 1941; see BLR 1,14 (1941), 239. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I11.1475.1.
A-399 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
[1a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Letter addressed to Martinus V, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 75-6. [1a1v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Preface to Ethica Nicomachea.] Bruni, Schriften, 76-81. [1a4v] [Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere uidetur . . .’ See A-394. [2a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Letter addressed to Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 70-3. [2a2v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Proemium in libros Politicorum.] Bruni, Schriften, 73-4. [2a3v] [Aristoteles Politica. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam videmus omnem ciuitatem esse societatem quandam . . .’ [3a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Letter for the Oeconomica, addressed to Cosimo de’ Medici.] Bruni, Schriften, 120-1. [3a1v] [Aristoteles pseudo- Oeconomica. Partly translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[R]es familiaris et res pu[blica] inter se differunt non solum quantum domus et ciuitas . . .’ See A-388.
[Valencia: Lambert Palmart, not after 1474]. Folio.Vindel assigns to [Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba]. See also L. Witten, ‘The Earliest Book Printed in Spain’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (1959), 91-113, at 102. [a b10 c8 d e10 f8 g10 h–k8 l10 m n8]; 2[a10 b c8 d10 e8 f10 g–l8 m10 n8 o10 p8 q6] (not as GW); 3[a8]. GW 2370;R 401;Goff A-985;BMC X 14;Haebler Bibliografía ibérica I and II 33; Sheppard 7280-1; Vindel, Arte, III 9: 4.
First copy Wanting 1[a1] and the blank leaf 2[q6]. Leaf 2[a1] was at one time bound in as 1[a1] with the addition of a handwritten title ‘Ethica de Aristotiles.’ For this copy see Hispanic MSS and Books, 6 no. 15. Binding: Twentieth-century green morocco; gold-tooled turn-ins and edges of boards; edges gilt. Old parchment label now mounted on an endleaf. Size: 302 × 220 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 290 × 208 mm. Pencil notes by George Dunn. On 2[a1r] a four-line initial is supplied in gold on blue ground, within an ink frame. A small initial ‘E’ is supplied in a similar style in the manuscript heading. Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912), 1900; printed label; sale, part 3 (22 Nov. 1917), lot 1817. Purchased for £67. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. S1.1. Second copy Wanting gatherings 1[a]–1[n]. Binding: Nineteenth-century brown cloth. Size: 297 × 205 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 288 × 194 mm. Running headings with the book-numbers in the Politica. Occasional marginal notes; some nineteenth-century foliation numbers. Provenance: Inserted letter from R. Proctor, dated 2 Oct. 1902. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 428. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. C 1.1.
A-400 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
a2r Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus ‘Prefatio.’ [Letter addressed to Martinus V, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 75-6. a3r [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus Preface to Ethica Nicomachea.] Bruni, Schriften, 76-81. b1r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ See A-394.
Oxford: [Printer of the ‘Expositio in symbolum apostolorum’], 1479. 4°.Formerly ascribed to [Theodoricus Rood]; BMC identifies as [Printer of Rufinus]. See D. E. Rhodes, ‘Variants in the 1479 Oxford Edition of Aristotle’s Ethics’, Studies in Bibliography, 8 (1956), 209-12, repr. in Dennis E. Rhodes, Studies in Early European Printing and Book Collecting (London, 1983), 8-11. For variants see BMC. a–x8 y6. GW 2373;HC 1749;Goff A-987;BMC XI;Pr 9744;Duff 32; Oates 4160; Rhodes 150; Sheppard 7477-9; STC 752.
First copy Binding: Contemporary English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, one clasp lost. On both covers double fillets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by stamps into triangular compartments. In the compartments and the inner frame three different stamps: a square squirrel stamp, a round lamb-and-flag stamp, and a rectangular floral staff stamp. For the binding see Gibson, Oxford Bindings, stamped binding no. 9, pl. vii. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 208 × 143 × 42 mm. Size of leaf: 202 × 126 mm. Pastedowns and endleaves from a fourteenth-century parchment manuscript of commentaries on civil law; see Ker, Pastedowns, no. 38; the front are not from the same work as the rear leaves. The front pastedown and endleaves contain the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius without the later additional ‘Casus’ of Vivianus to the Digestum vetus, covering 1.5.5.2 to 1.6.10 (the fragment breaks off towards the end of the gloss ‘Alimentorum’). The commentary on the rear pastedown and endleaves may be to Digestum 28.1.6, perhaps from one of the fourteenth-century standard texts.Magnus Ryan Copious early marginal notes by English hands. On a1r notes, in English, in a fifteenth-century hand, of pittances received by an Oxford student(?) (Madan 253), including one from the prior of Osney Abbey: ‘[Summa] debita: x(?) nobyl [ ] xv d &pipe; [Memorandum] that y had a mark of ye prior of Osiney byfor Crystmas &pipe; [memorandum] that my brothr and y had a mark aftyr Crystmas &pipe; [memorandum] that y had a nobyll yn ye Lent &pipe; [memorandum] that y had x d. aftyr Lent &pipe; [memorandum] that y had xx d byfor my mas &pipe; [memorandum] that y had x[ ] d lytyll aftyr my mas &pipe; [memorandum] that y had nobyll in Fryswyse chyrche [ ] xxxv d. &pipe; [Total]’; two elegiac distichs (‘Efficiunt opera virtutis quemque beatum &pipe; Cum sibi nil vero sensibus obediat. &pipe; Ast homini data est mo[do] feli[citatis] facultas &pipe; Ad finem vite s[ic] q[uod] manere potest.’) and three pentameters (‘Agere p[er]uerse poterit atque felix. &pipe; Felicibus cun[c]tis grata fortuna fauet. &pipe; Nec verus felix est reputatus inops.)’; all with glosses in Latin, followed by four more lines in Latin. On y6v early notes in English and Latin; further notes on back endleaf and pastedown, including one recording in a fifteenth-century hand the delivery of twelve pounds of lead from master Norris to master Stacy, bursar of All Souls College, presumably Thomas Stacy († after 1511), Fellow of All Souls 1487-after 1497/98 (see Emden, BRUO, 1749); inscription: ‘[Memorandum quod] M. Stacy beyng boucer of All Soulye Colege had for the sa[d] colege xii povs of led delyuyd by mayst’ Norrys’; also two names: ‘Master Taylor’ and ‘Master Powel’: perhaps to be identified with Ranulph Taylor († before Mar. 1509), Fellow of All Souls 1480-91 (see Emden, BRUO, 1852), and Philip Howell (Powell, † by Feb. 1530), Fellow of All Souls 1481–c.1487; see Emden, BRUO, 977. In gatherings b–h, paragraph marks supplied in red; red capital strokes and occasional underlining. Provenance: On a2r ‘Codex Michaelis Canni’. John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 85. Presented in 1659. Former Bodleian shelfmark: 8° A 17 Art. Seld.; Auct. 1Q 5.17 (in 1843); Auct. R sup. 8. SHELFMARK: S. Seld. e.2. Second copy Bound with A-168(4); see there for details of binding. Size of leaf: 152 × 109 mm. Leaves l3, and l6-8 only. Early interlinear notes. Provenance and date of acquisition unknown. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. R sup. 9(3). SHELFMARK: Arch. G e.7(3). Third copy Bound in a guard-book of English fragments. Fragments of v3, v6, v7 and v8 only. Mutilated. Size of fragments: 108 × 100 to 169 × 108 mm. Provenance and date of acquisition unknown. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. E7.1(1).
A-401 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus). Fragment.
Zaragoza: Paul Hurus, 22 Sept. 1492. Folio. a8 b–q6 r8 &mcross;4. GW 2374;C 630;Goff A-988;BMC X 28;Pr 9510;Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 29; Kurz 52; Sheppard 7295; Vindel, Arte, IV 143: 49.
Copy Leaves l7-8 and portions of 17 other leaves, including c1, k1, k4, l4, m4, n3 and n4. Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments. According to the note of contents (see below), the fragments were removed from the bindings of MS. Bodl. 128 [SC 1993] (Feb. 1919), MS. Bodl. 557 [SC 2341] (Mar. 1918), and MS. e. Mus. 141 [SC 3660] (Feb. 1919); this is noted in SC 3660. Copious early marginal and interlinear notes on three leaves, including comments on the text, ‘nota’ marks, and pointing hands. The text on each of the individual fragments has been identified on an attached sheet, dated 26 Feb. 1919, by [Miss] A. C[ummin]g (temporary assistant), with revisions by R. T. M[ilford] (temporary assistant). Provenance (of MSS. Bodl. 128, 557, and e. Mus. 141): all three manuscripts were copied in Portugal, probably at Évora, in the 1580s; see references in SC. Hieronimus Teixeira Cabral (†?1611), Bishop of Angra 1599-1611, Bishop of Miranda 1611; inscription on fol. 126v of MS. Bodl. 557 only: ‘Hieronimus Texra Cabral Dei et apostolice sedis gratia episcopus Angrensis’. Josias White (1572/3–after June 1610); owned all three manuscripts. Presented by White in 1605; see Macray 402, and Benefactors’ Register I 93-4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 1.21(16).
A-402 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Robertus Grosseteste).
[a2r] [Table of contents.] [b1r] [Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. Translated by Robertus Grosseteste.] See A-387.
[Paris: Petrus Caesaris and Johannes Stol, c.1478]. 4°.Assignment to printer from Veyrin-Forrer. Previously assigned to [Printer of Aristoteles, ‘Ethica’] and dated [c.1476]. [a6 b–t8]. GW 2375;C 628;Goff A-988a;Pr 8804;Claudin II 374; Sheppard 6122; Veyrin-Forrer, ‘Cesaris et Stol’, 27.
Copy Wanting gathering [a] and the blank leaf [t8]. Binding: Modern parchment over old wooden boards. Size: 251 × 169 × 51 mm. Size of leaf: 238 × 166 mm. Copious early marginal and interlinear notes; running headings and signatures. On [b1r] a seven-line initial is supplied in blue with foliate scrolling, on a red ground with floral highlighting in yellow. Some principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; text within a frame of double red rules. Provenance: Charles Weatherby Reynell (1798-1892). Purchased in 1887 out of the donation of £100 ‘from a member of All Souls’ College’, i.e. Sir William Reynell Anson, Warden of All Souls (1843-1914). SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.33.
A-403 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Robertus Grosseteste).
a1v Felix Lingonensis, Claudius ‘Exhortatiua ad lectores et operis laudatiua epistola.’ Incipit: ‘Moralis illa (quam Ethicen vocant) philosophia languentium animorum morbis salutifera medela . . .’ a1v Felix Lingonensis, Claudius ‘Ad lectorem.’ ‘Si cupis, o lector, felicem ducere vitam &pipe; Hoc lege, quod tenui codice dogma latet’; 8 elegiac distichs. a2r [Buridanus, Johannes Commentary on Ethica.] ‘Prohemium Ethicorum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]irca Ethica Aristotelis queritur, utrum de virtutibus moralibus sit scientia, et arguitur primo . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 338 no. 2 ascribes to Martinus Magistri, but also Lohr (1970), 161-83, at 179-81 no. 42; for further references see B-597. Commentary alternates with the text. a3r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Robertus Grosseteste.] See A-387. x2v [Colophon.] x3r [Table of contents.] x6r [List of virtues and vices, comparing the terminology of Robertus Grosseteste, Leonardus Brunus and Johannes Argyropoulos.] ‘Vicia per excessum. Virtutes. Vicia per defectum.’
[Paris]: André Bocard, for Jean Petit, [c.1496-1500]. Folio.As dated by GW; CIBN dates [before 31 Mar. 1498] from the type and devices; BSB-Ink and Sack, Freiburg date [not after Feb. 1500], from the date of purchase of a copy in Brünn; Sheppard dates [c.1497-1500]. a–x6. Woodcut initials. GW 2377;H 1743; C 629;Goff A-989;BMC VIII 159;Pr 8169;BSB-Ink A-692; CIBN A-518; Sack, Freiburg, 272; Sheppard 6401.
Copy Bound with:&br;1. Augustinus Niphus, Expositiones in libros de Sophisticis elenchis Aristotelis. Paris: Jean Roigny, 1540. Wanting a1, supplied in photostat from the British Library copy. Binding: Seventeenth-century English(?) reversed calf; holes for two clasps, formerly chained: staple-marks at head of the lower cover. Size: 280 × 199 × 48 mm. Size of leaf: 270 × 187 mm. Pastedowns from an unidentified edition of Nicolaus Panormitanus de Tudeschis, Lectura super secundo Decretalium.Compared: [Venice: V. de Spira, 1471-3 (BMC V 162 (I), V 159 (II), XII 13 (III/1)); Basel: [M. Wenssler, B. Ruppel & B. Richel], 1477 (BMC III 723 & III 738); Venice: A. Torresanus de Asula, 1482-3 (Rhodes 1303)] Scribbles on x5v and x6r. Provenance: Richard Cottell(?) (sixteenth century); on endleaf following item 1, ‘Charus dei Cottelus’, ‘Richardus Cottlellus’, ‘Charus dei cultor’. James Baron William Kelson; on v6v: ‘James Baron William Kelson oneth this Bucke Amen Worthington’; name on x6r. Thomas Worthington (1549-1622?); name on x6r. Arthur Bache (1600–after 1650); on endleaf following item 1, ‘D.D. Ric. was he borne Artur Bacch. Ex Coll. Ex . . .’ Richard Washbourne (1597-1672); inscription on endleaf following item 1: ‘Richard Washbourne his booke’. John Harvye/Marvye (sixteenth/seventeenth century?); name on endleaf following item 1; ‘John Harvye(?) his booke. My freinde ws’. Acquired before 1674; see Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 43. Former Bodleian shelfmark: N 1.5(2) Jur. SHELFMARK: M 8.18(2) Jur.
A-404 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Robertus Grosseteste).
a1v Felix Lingonensis, Claudius ‘Exhortatiua ad lectores et operis laudatiua epistola.’ Incipit: ‘Moralis illa (quam Ethicen vocant) philosophia languentium animorum morbis salutifera medela . . .’ a1v Felix Lingonensis, Claudius ‘Ad lectorem.’ ‘Si cupis, o lector, felicem ducere vitam &pipe; Hoc lege, quod tenui codice dogma latet’; 8 elegiac distichs. a2r [Buridanus, Johannes Commentary on Ethica.] ‘Prohemium Ethicorum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]irca Ethica Aristotelis queritur, utrum de virtutibus moralibus sit scientia, et arguitur primo . . .’ See A-403. a3r Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Robertus Grosseteste.] See A-387. x2v [Colophon recording the ascription of the translation to Henricus Kosbein.] x3r [Table of contents.] x6r [List of virtues and vices, comparing the terminology of Robertus Grosseteste, Leonardus Brunus and Johannes Argyropoulos.] ‘Vicia per excessum. Virtutes. Vicia per defectum.’
Paris: [André Bocard, for] Jean Petit, ‘26 Sept. 1500′ [c.1505]. Folio.As dated by Moreau, Hillard, and CIBN, in spite of the date in the colophon, on the basis of the state of the device of Jean Petit (Konrad Haebler, Verlegermarken des Jean Petit (Halle an der Saale, 1914), no. IIIc); GW, BSB-Ink and Sheppard date to 26 Sept. 1500, BSB-Ink identifying the device as Haebler IIIb, rather than IIIc. a–x6. Woodcut initials. GW 2378;H *1758;Goff A-990;not in Pr;BSB-Ink A-693; CIBN I p. 124; Hillard 179; Brigitte Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle d’après les manuscrits de Philippe Renouard, 4 vols (Paris, 1972- ), I p. 142, no. 9; Oates 3053; Sack, Freiburg, 273-4; Sheppard 6399.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half olive morocco; bound for Bywater. Size: 276 × 212 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 267 × 200 mm. Provenance: Fifteenth/sixteenth century inscription ‘Marx Schulthais’ on a1r. Duplicate from the University Library, Heidelberg; stamp. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 399. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. B 2.11.
A-405 Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea [French] (trans. Nicolaus Oresme).
A2r [Oresme, Nicolaus] ‘Prologue du translateur.’ Nicolaus Oresme, Le Livre de Éthiques d’Aristote, ed. Albert Douglas Menut (New York, 1940), 97-101. A4r [Table of contents.] a1r [Aristoteles] Ethica Nicomachea [French], with French commentary. Translated by Nicolaus Oresme. Oresme, Le Livre de Éthiques, ed. Menut, 103-540. Commentary alternates with the text; see Lohr (1972), 290-5. D2r ‘Table des fors motz a exposer d’Ethiques.’ Oresme, Le livre de Éthiques, ed. Menut, 541-7
Paris: [Antoine Vérard?], 8 Sept. 1488. Folio. A a–o8 p6 n–x8 y z6 [et] A–C8 D6.Collation as in BMC, not as GW. GW 2381;HC 1759;Goff A-993;BMC VIII 74;not in Pr;CIBN A-519; Hillard 180; Macfarlane 8; Rhodes 153; Sheppard 6245.
Copy Wanting A1 and D4 and the blank leaves a1 (a2 being signed ai) and D6. Binding: Sixteenth-century, French gold-tooled calf, of the 1530s or 1540s [ex informatione Giles Barber, in letter dated 30 Nov. 1992]. On both covers two concentric ornamental frames, the inner rectangle filled with floral ornaments, ‘Ethiques’ stamped in the centre. Size: 318 × 235 × 46 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 211 mm. Ruling in red. At the end are bound papers with manuscript notes about the missing leaves, some in the hand of Nicholson. Provenance: Edward William Byron Nicholson (1849-1912). Bequeathed in 1912. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. F1.1488.1.
A-406 Aristoteles Organon.
a2r Porphyrius Liber quinque praedicabilium. [Also known as Isagoge. Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. a9r Aristoteles Liber praedicamentorum. [Also known as Categoriae.] See A-385. c2r Gilbertus Porretanus [pseudo-] De sex principiis. See A-385. c8v [Aristoteles] Liber perihermenias. [Also known as De interpretatione. Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. d6r [Aristoteles] Topica. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. l5r [Aristoteles] De sophisticis elenchis. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. o4v [Aristoteles] Analytica priora. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. s1r [Aristoteles [Analytica posteriora. Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] See A-385.
Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 25 Oct. 1481. Folio. a–c10 d–k8 l6 m8 n6 o8 p10 P pp q6 r10 s t8 u x6. GW 2391;H *1665; C 606 (with erroneous date 1480);Goff A-1013;Pr 4283;BSB-Ink A-694; Rhodes 160; Sheppard 3454.
Copy Gatherings P and pp misbound in the order: P1, pp2, P2, P3, pp1, pp4, P4, P5, pp3, P6, pp5, pp6. Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) diced russia backed with green leather; marbled pastedowns. Size: 299 × 210 × 38 mm. Size of leaf: 288 × 197 mm. A few early marginal notes. Copious marginal notes in gathering s. Principal initials are supplied in black and red with pen flourishing in red; initial on a2r added later. In gatherings a and b, running headings are supplied in red. Provenance: Milan, Augustinian Hermits, S. Maria coronata; on a2r: ‘S. Mari&ecedilla; Coronat&ecedilla; Mediolani ad usum Fratris Laurentii de Mediolano Tradit Paulus De Pergamo vicarius Generalis Manu propria r[escripsi]t’ [i.e. Paulus Lulmius Bergomensis]. Laurentius Lampugnanus (1458-1527); inscription on x5r; ‘De libris Fratris Laurentii Lampug[na]ni de M[edio]l[an]o’. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 2. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. K inf. 4.41. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 4.41.
A-407 Aristoteles Organon.
a1v [Table of contents to Porphyrius, Liber quinque predicabilium.] a2r Porphyrius Liber quinque praedicabilium. [Also known as Isagoge. Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. a8r [Table of contents to the Liber predicamentorum.] a8v Aristoteles Liber praedicamentorum. [Also known as Categoriae.] See A-385. c3r [Table of contents to De sex principiis.] c3r Gilbertus Porretanus [pseudo-] De sex principiis. See A-385. d1r [Table of contents to the Liber perihermenias.] d1v [Aristoteles] Liber perihermenias. [Also known as De interpretatione. Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. d8r [Table of contents to the Liber divisionum.] d8v Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Divisiones. PL XLIV 875-92. See CPL 887. e8v [Table of contents to the Topica.] f1v Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Topica. [Also known as De differentiis topicis.] PL LXIV 1173-1216. See CPL 889. h8v [Table of contents to the Analytica priora.] I3r [Aristoteles] Analytica priora. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. o3r [Table of contents to the Analytica posteriora.] o5r Aristoteles Analytica posteriora. [Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] See A-385. s1r [Table of contents to the Topica.] s5r Aristoteles Topica. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. bb7v [Table of contents to De sophisticis Elenchis.] cc1r Aristoteles De sophisticis elenchis. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385.
Paris: Ulrich Gering, [c.1484]. Folio. a–z aa–cc8 dd12. GW 2392;HC 1664;BMC VIII 25;Pr 7877;CIBN A-534; Hillard 181; Sack, Freiburg, 283; Sheppard 6149.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers; the upper cover detached. Size: 293 × 214 × 39 mm. Size of leaf: 283 × 200 mm. Sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes in various hands. On a2r a six-line initial is supplied in gold with infill in red with white highlighting, on a blue ground with white highlighting. Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; minor initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Giulio Maffei (sixteenth century); on a1r: ‘Julii Maffei Volaterrani’. Mario Maffei (1463-1537); on a2r: ‘De figl[iuol]i et Eredi di M. Mario Maffei’. Date of acquisition unknown; possibly a Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) copy; see ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae’, fol. 117r: ‘Rawl.’ SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.14.
A-408 Aristoteles Logica nova: Copulata novae logicae Aristotelis.
a2r Monte, Lambertus de [Commentary on Analytica priora.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca inicium libri analeticorum priorum Arestotelis queritur primo, que est racio istius libri ad libros precedentes . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 310-12 no. 2 and N. J. Green-Pedersen, The Tradition of the Topics in the Middle Ages. The Commentaries on Aristotle’s and Boethius’ ‘Topics’ (Munich, 1984), 417. a3v Aristoteles Analytica priora. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. h1r Monte, Lambertus de [Commentary on Analytica posteriora.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca inicium libri Analeticorum posteriorum Arestotelis queritur primo, vtrum de syllogismo demonstratiuo sit scientia tamquam de subiecto scientie libri Posteriorum . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 310-12 no. 2. h1v Aristoteles Analytica posteriora. [Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] Lemmata from the text inserted in the commentary. See also A-385. p2v Monte, Lambertus de [Commentary on Topica.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca inicium libri Thopicorum queritur primo, vtrum de sylogismo dyaletico sit scientia . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 310-12 no. 2. p3r Aristoteles Topica. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. 2a1r Monte, Lambertus de [Commentary on De sophisticis elenchis.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca inicium libri Elenchorum Arestotelis queritur primo, utrum de elenco sophistico sit scientia . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 310-12 no. 2. a1v Aristoteles De sophisticis elenchis. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. f6r [Colophon with note on the commentator.]
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Copy Bound with:&br;1. Monte, Lambertus de, Copulata super tres libros Aristotelis De anima. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1492;&br;3. Thomas Aquinas, Opuscula. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, c.1472. Wanting gatherings h–x. Binding: Contemporary German (Hamm), blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, remains of two clasps, four bosses lost; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks at head of the lower cover. Two book-labels at the head of the upper cover, the upper one with old shelfmark ‘Q.v.’ On both covers triple fillets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by triple fillets into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments. In the compartments eight different stamps: S. Catharina within an escutcheon, S. Veronica holding the Sacred Face, a square stamp with a nine-petalled flower, a floral ornament within an escutcheon, a hexagonal foliate stamp, and three lozenge-shaped stamps: a fleur-de-lis, and a small lion and a griffin; the Veronica, Catharina, and griffin stamps, the hexagonal foliate stamp and the floral ornament stamp all occur on the binding of Inc. d. G3.4 (Bod-inc. P-204(1)), also from Hamm. Size: 286 × 210 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 205 mm. Former pastedowns, now raised, from a tenth/eleventh-century parchment manuscript of the Latin Bible in Carolingian minuscules and rustic capitals. Present pastedowns: fragments from the Rudimentum Novitiorum, Lübeck: Lucas Brandis, 5 Aug. 1475 (R-142(3)). Occasional early marginal notes. Principal initials are supplied in red with reserved white decoration; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes. Provenance: Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Franciscan Recollects, S. Agnes (not Hamburg as assumed by E. P. Goldschmidt in a letter enclosed with the book); on g8v: ‘pro conuentu hammon[ensis]’ and on f6r directly after the colophon, ‘et est pro conuentu hammon[ensis]’. Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954). Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); purchased from Goldschmidt in 1952 for £115. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman. SHELFMARK: Broxb. 20.4(2).
A-409 Aristoteles Logica nova: Copulata novae logicae Aristotelis.
a2r [Monte, Lambertus de Commentary on Analytica priora.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium noue logice Arestotelis, antequam ad textum procedatur, videndum est de quibusdam dubiis generalibus . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 310-12 no. 2. a3v Aristoteles Analytica priora. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. m1r [Monte, Lambertus de Commentary on Analytica posteriora.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri Analeticorum posteriorum Arest[otelis] queritur primo, vtrum syllogismus demonstratiuus sit subiectum scientie libri Posteriorum . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 310-12 no. 2. m1v Aristoteles Analytica posteriora. [Translated by Jacobus Venetus.] Commentary alternates with the text. See also A-385. A1r [Monte, Lambertus de Commentary on Topica.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri Thopicorum queritur primo, vtrum de syllogismo dialectico sit scientia . . .’ See A-408. A1v Aristoteles Topica. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. M5r [Monte, Lambertus de Commentary on De sophisticis elenchis.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri Elenchorum Arestotelis queritur primo, vtrum de elencho sophistico sit scientia . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 310-12 no. 2. M6r Aristoteles De sophisticis elenchis. [Translated by Boethius.] See A-385. T5v [Colophon with a note on the commentator and the use of the text at Cologne.] T6r ‘Tabula.’
[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell], 1489. Folio. a8 b–f6 g8 h–l6 m8 n6 o8 p–v6 x4 A–S6 T8. GW 2402;HC 1676;Goff A-1000;BMC I 275;Pr 1294;Sack, Freiburg, 276; Sheppard 975; Voulliéme, Köln, 138.
Copy Wanting the blank leaf T8. Binding: Sixteenth-century English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf; two straps(?) lost; formerly chained: staple-marks at tail of the upper cover. On both covers fillets form a triple frame. In the two inner frames, a roll containing initials I W; see Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xli, no. 657, and p. 70. Size: 270 × 200 × 60 mm. Size of leaf: 263 × 195 mm. Front pastedown is the lower half of a leaf from an unidentified incunable edition of Bartolus of Sassoferrato’s Commentary on the Digestum vetus, book 12, tit. 1, law 1, towards the end, with marginal notes in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand.Magnus Ryan; too many eds. in 2 columns with same type size! Numerous early marginal notes. On a1v: ‘Schola Coloniensis’ in a seventeenth-century hand. Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or, occasionally, in blue; red capital strokes and underlining. Provenance: On a1r: ‘Petrus Salusfell Junior est possessor huius libri noue logice Anno domini etc. xciii°’. Sir John Stonehouse (1602?–1632). Donated in 1619: on front endleaf, ‘Bibliothec&ae; Bodleian&ae; in Vniversit[ate] Oxon[iensi]. Johannes Stonehouse Armig[eri] filius Nat. Max. et Colleg[ii] Trinitatis ibidem Commensalis dedit. Januarii 12° A° 1619°.’ Former Bodleian shelfmark: C 8.16 [written over 4.16] A[rt]; AA 91 Art. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.2.
A-410 Aristoteles Meteorologica.
A2r Aristoteles Meteorologica, books I–III. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e primis quidem igitur causis nature et de omni motu naturali adhuc autem de secundum superiorem lationem . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 386. On this edition see Hellmann, II 23. See also A-386. A2r Jacobus de Amersfordia [Commentary on Meteorologica.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber Metheororum Arestotelis, quartus in ordine librorum philosophie naturalis . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 148 no. 2. Commentary alternates with the text. P1r [Colophon with note on the commentator and the use of the text at the Bursa Laurentii at Cologne.] P1v Langius, Rudolphus ‘Epitaphium Jacobi Amsfordensis.’ ‘Aurea miraris regum quicumque sepulchra &pipe; Scriptaque marmoribus grandia verba stupes’; 16 elegiac distichs, with interlinear glosses. P1v ‘Tabula.’
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Copy Binding: Pasteboards covered with leaves from a liturgical manuscript on parchment. Size: 284 × 216 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 276 × 205 mm. Paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; shelfmark Philolog. V.3.10 on A1r and note on endleaf ‘Doubl. zu 47474.b (nicht bei Hain)’; no. 18741. Stamp with monogram VF in a wreath. Purchased for £0. 8. 0 from the anonymous sale (3 Mar. 1885), lot 698; see bill from Bernard Quaritch, 3 Mar. 1885. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.26.
A-411 Aristoteles Parva naturalia.
A2r Aristoteles De sensu et sensato. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem de anima secundum seipsam determinatum est et de virtute qualibet ex parte ipsius consequens est . . .’ See A-386. A2r Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De sensu et sensato.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de sensu et sensato, qui primus est inter eos qui dicuntur de paruis naturalibus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text. F4v Aristoteles De memoria et reminiscentia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[R]eliquorum autem primo considerandum de memoria et reminiscentia et somno et vigilia. De memoria autem et memorari dicendum quid est et propter quam causam fit . . .’ See A-386. F4v Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De memoria et reminiscentia.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de memoria et reminiscentia, qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in partem proemialem et executiuam . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text. H6v Aristoteles De somno et vigilia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e somno autem et vigilia considerandum est quid sint et vtrum anime vel corporis propria sint vel communia . . .’ See A-386. H7r Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De somno et vigilia.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est tertius liber paruorum naturalium, qui prima sui diuisione partitur in tres tractatus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text. O2v Aristoteles De longitudine et brevitate vitae. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e eo autem quod est hec quidem esse longe vite animalium, hec autem breuis vite . . .’ See A-386. O2v Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De longitudine et brevitate vitae.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est quartus liber paruorum naturalium, intitulatus de longitudine et breuitate vite . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text. P5v [Table of contents for the second part.] P6r Aristoteles De iuventute et senectute. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e iuuentute autem et senectute et vita et morte nunc dicendum . . .’ See A-386. P6r Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De iuventute et senectute.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est quintus liber paruorum naturalium Aristotelis, qui intitulatur De inspiratione et respiratione, De iuuentute et senectute . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text. Q6v Aristoteles De respiratione et inspiratione. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium autem quoniam hec quidem sunt aquatilia, hec autem in aere faciunt dietam . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 99. On Moerbeka’s translation see A-386. Q6v Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De respiratione et inspiratione.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘In hac parte secunda o[ste]n[di]t p[rimo], quomodo fiat refrigeratio in animalibus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text. S4v Aristoteles De vita et morte. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[E]st quidem igitur omnibus animalibus commune viuere generatio et mors, modi autem differunt specie . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 513. On Moerbeka’s translation see A-386. S4v Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De vita et morte.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Postquam in precedenti tractatu determinatum est de infrigidatione tam in animalibus pulmonem habentibus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. See Thorndike–Kibre 1072. Commentary alternates with the text. U2r Aristoteles De motu animalium. ‘De causa motus animalium.’ [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e motu autem eo qui animalium quecumque quidem circa unumquodque genus ipsorum existunt . . .’ See A-386. U2r Johannes de Mechlinia [Commentary on De motu animalium.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Incipit liber de motibus animalium, qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duos tractatus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text. Y8r [Colophon with note on the commentator, the editor of the commentary and his additional notes, and the use of the text at Cologne.]
Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 27 Oct. 1491. Folio.On the date see Frederick R. Goff, ‘The Dates in certain German Incunabula’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 34 (1940), 17-67, at 53. A–F8.6 G–O6.8 P Q6 R8 S T6 U8 X6 Y8. On A1r ‘Accipies’ woodcut: see Schreiber–Heitz no. 67. GW 2428;H 1717;Goff A-1017;BMC I 230;Pr 1085;BSB-Ink A-707; Rhodes 161; Sack, Freiburg, 280; Schramm VIII 18; Schreiber V 3351; Sheppard 822; Voulliéme, Köln, 159.
Copy Leaf C1 misbound before L1, C8 misbound after L6. Binding: Late nineteenth-century black cloth for the Bodleian Library, re-using nineteenth-century spine. Size: 295 × 220 × 29 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 200 mm. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; on A1r: ‘Doubl. zu 47088′. Date of acquisition unknown; the two other items in the volume were acquired 1894; the shelfmark indicates a date after c.1891. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. G3.1491.1.
A-412 Aristoteles Oeconomica (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
[a1r] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus ‘Praefatio in libros oeconomicorum Aristothelis ad Cosmum Medicum Florentinum.’ Bruni, Schriften, 120-1. [a2r] Aristoteles [pseudo-] Oeconomica. Partly translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[R]es familiaris et res p[ublica] inter se differunt non solum quantum domus et ciuitas . . .’ See A-388. [b3r] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus [Commentary on the Oeconomica.] Incipit: ‘[R]es familiaris et res p[ublica] inter se differunt. Diximus supra in prohemio, quam Graeci politicam uocant nos appellare rem . . .’ See Bruni, Schriften, 165 and Lohr (1971), 316-20, at 318-19 no. 2.
[Venice: Christophorus Valdarfer, c.1470]. 8°.For the ascription to [Verona: Paulus de Butzbach and Georgius de Alemannia] see Daniela Fattori, ‘Nuove ricerche sulla tipografia veronese del Quattrocento’, Bibliofilia, 97 (1995), 1-20, at 1-12. [a10 b c8 d10]. GW 2435;HCR 1774;Goff A-1009;BMC V 185;Pr 4139;Rhodes 158a; Sheppard 3308-9.
First copy Binding: Italian eighteenth/nineteenth-century(?) pasteboards imitating mottled calf; blind- and gold-tooled spine; marbled edges. Size: 212 × 145 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 207 × 137 mm. Copious fifteenth/sixteenth-century marginal notes and underlining. Initials are supplied in red. Provenance: Bernardus Rosa (fifteenth/sixteenth century); name on [a1r]. Count Paolo Vimercati-Sozzi (1801-1883); engraved label. Purchased from Ulrich Hoepli, Catalogue 59 (1889), no. 32, for 25 [Lire]; see Library Bills, 13 Dec. 1889. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.37. Second copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century parchment, grained and sprinkled, the spine tooled. Size: 220 × 152 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 209 × 140 mm. A few sixteenth-century marginal notes. On [a1r] a Venetian reserved white initial surrounded by white vine-stems defined in red and green on a blue ground; other initials are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 441. Bequeathed in 1914 SHELFMARK: Byw. K 3.4.
A-413 Aristoteles Physica (trans. Guilelmus de Moerbeka).
A2r Aristoteles Physica. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam quidem intelligere et scire contingit circa omnes sciencias, quarum sunt principia aut cause aut elementa ex horum cognitione tunc enim cognoscere arbitramur . . .’ See A-385.
[Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, c.1492-5]. Folio.The Wroc&lpolish;aw copy has an owner’s inscription with date 1495. A–P6. GW 2441;H 1684;Pr 2989;BSB-Ink A-712; Sheppard 2108.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century German(?) pasteboards covered with leaves from a liturgical manuscript on parchment dyed dark blue; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 298 × 220 × 27 mm. Size of leaf: 290 × 208 mm. Copious early marginal and interlinear notes; sixteenth-and seventeenth-century marginal notes. Some initials are supplied in ink in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. Provenance: Würzburg, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, Inventio crucis/Sancta crux; ‘Fratrum Minorum Conuentualium Herbipolensis’. Sotheby’s sale (3 May 1832), lot 217; purchased for £0. 11. 0; Books Purchased (1832), 2. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.13. SHELFMARK: Auct. P 4.1.
A-414 Aristoteles Politica (trans. Guilelmus de Moerbeka).
A2r Aristoteles Politica. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam omnem ciuitatem videmus communitatem quandam existentem . . .’ See A-387. A2r [Versor, Johannes Commentary on Politica.] ‘Questiones.’ Incipit: ‘Quritur(!) primo, utrum intentio politice sit de summo hominis bono . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 12. See also Martin Grabmann, Die mittelalterlichen Kommentare zur Politik des Aristoteles, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 1941/II,10 (Munich, 1941), 65-75, repr. in Gesammelte Akademieabhandlungen, Münchener Universitäts-Schriften, Fachbereich Katholische Theologie, Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes, NS 25/1 (Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, and Zürich, 1979), 1725-1800, at 1787-97. Commentary alternates with the text. X4v [Colophon with note on commentator.] X5r ‘Tabula continens questiones.’
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A-415 Aristoteles Politica (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
a1v [Todeschini-]piccolomini, Augustinus [Letter to] Ludovicus [Valentia de Ferraria] OP. Incipit: ‘[C]ommentarios Diui Thome in libros octo Politicorum Aristotelis cum proxima estate in Etruria comperissem essentque scriptoris uitio mendosisissimi . . .’ Partially reproduced in M. G. Blasio, ‘L’editoria universitaria da Alessandro VI a Leone X: libri e questioni’, in Roma e lo Studium Urbis. Spazio urbano e cultura dal Quattro al Seicento. Atti del convegno. Roma, 7-10 giugno 1989, ed. P. Cherubini, Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, Saggi, 22 (Rome, 1992), 289-312, at 303-4. The letter contains the author’s request to Ludovicus Valentia, his former tutor, to emend in view of publication the manuscript text of Thomas Aquinas’s commentary, which he had found and brought to Rome from Tuscany; on the genesis of this edition, the idea of Augustinus Todeschini-Piccolomini, edited by Ludovicus Valentia de Ferraria, and typographically supervised by Martinus Nimireus, see Blasio 303-7 and R. Bianchi, ‘Cultura umanistica intorno ai Piccolomini fra quattro e cinquecento. Antonio da San Severino e altri’, in Umanesimo a Siena. Letteratura, arti figurative, musica. Siena, 5-8 Giugno 1991, ed. E. Cioni and D. Fausti (Siena, 1994), 29-88, at 83-8: ‘Appendice II: L’edizione romana della Politica di Aristotele tradotta dal Bruni con il commento di s. Tommaso (1492) e l’insegnamento di Ludovico Valentia nello Studio Urbis’. a2r Valentia [de Ferraria], Ludovicus [Letter] adressed to Franciscus [Todeschini] Piccolomini, Cardinal of Siena. Incipit: ‘[A]ugustinus Picolhomineus, nepos tuus, iuuenis certe prestanti et erudito ingenio castitissimisque institutus moribus . . .’ Kaeppeli III 92-4 identifies Ludovicus Valentia with Ludovicus de Ferraria. Lohr (1971), 321, however, treats them as two different authors; see Bianchi 83-88. a1v Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus ‘Prooemium in libros Politicorum.’ Bruni, Schriften, 73-4. a3r Thomas [Aquinas] ‘Prooemium.’ Thomas Aquinas, In libros Politicorum Aristotelis expositio, ed. Raymundus M. Spiazzi (Turin and Rome, 1951), 1; Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia, XLVIII 69-70; see Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14. See F. E. Cranz, ‘The Publishing History of the Aristotle Commentaries of Thomas Aquinas’, Traditio, 34 (1978), 157-92, at 171-3. a4r Aristoteles Politica, book I. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam uidemus omnem ciuitatem esse societatem quandam . . .’ Text surrounded by commentary throughout the volume. a4r [Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Politica, book I. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 6-52; Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia, XLVIII 71-118. See Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14. d3r Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones primi libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Todeschini Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Omnem ciuitatem alicuius boni gratia institutam . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. d5v Aristoteles Politica, book II. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. a4r [Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Politica, book II. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 55-117; Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia, XLVIII 119-83. See Lohr (1973), 159-l72 no. 14. h4v Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones secundi libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Todeschini Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Ad optimam rem p[ublicam] spectat . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. h6v Aristoteles Politica, book III. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. a4r [Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Politica, book III. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 121-85; Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia, XLVIII 185-205. See Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14. m8r Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones tertii libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Todeschini Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Qui de re p[ublica] considerat, debet primo tractare . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. n2r Aristoteles Politica, book IV. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. a4r [Thomas Aquinas pseudo-;author Petrus de Alvernia Commentary on the Politica, book IV. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 188-243. See Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14; (1972), 334-46 no. 22. r1r Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones quarti libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Huius scientie cum sit circa genus quoddam . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. r3v Aristoteles Politica, book V. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. a4r [Thomas Aquinas pseudo-;author Petrus de Alvernia Commentary on the Politica, book V. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 246-308. See Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14. y3v Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones quinti libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Prima et remota radix seditionis est . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. y7v Aristoteles Politica, book VI. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. a4r [Thomas Aquinas pseudo-;author Petrus de Alvernia Commentary on the Politica, book VI. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 310-36. See Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14. A8r Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones sexti libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Propositum rei p[ublicae] popularis est libertas . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. B1v Aristoteles Politica, book VII. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. a4r [Thomas Aquinas pseudo-;author Petrus de Alvernia Commentary on the Politica, book VII. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 338-409. See Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14. G3v Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones septimi libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Qui querunt de optima re p[ublica] considerare debent . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. G6v Aristoteles Politica, book VIII. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. a4r [Thomas Aquinas pseudo-;author Petrus de Alvernia Commentary on the Politica, book VIII. Edited by Ludovicus Valentia.] ed. Spiazzi, 413-38. See Lohr (1973), 159-72 no. 14. I6v Valentia, Ludovicus ‘Epitoma per conclusiones octaui libri Politicorum Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to F[ranciscus Piccolomini]. Incipit: ‘Maxime intendendum est a legislatore circa disciplinam iuuentutis . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 321. I7v M[artinus] Nimireus [Letter to] Ludovicus Valentia. Incipit: ‘Cum omnis philosophandi scientia in rationalem, moralem naturalemque partem sit distributa . . .’ Text dated 19 July. Partially reproduced in H.-F. Dondaine, ‘Le “Super Politicam” de saint Thomas. Tradition manuscrite et imprimée’, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 48 (1964), 585-602, at 595-6 n. 26 and in Blasio 306 no. 58. I8v M[artinus] Nimireus ‘Lectori.’ ‘Qui cupis imperio populis dare iura sagaci &pipe; Et qui non tristi fronte parere cupis’; 3 elegiac distichs.
Rome: Eucharius Silber, [for Franciscus Todeschini-Piccolomini], 19 July 1492. Folio. a–z A–I8. GW 2448;HC 1768;Goff A-1024;BMC IV 113;Pr 3851;BSB-Ink A-715; CIBN A-531; Sheppard 3050.
Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century tree calf, the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns; same binding as on Auct. O 4.1 (Bod-inc. P-455). Size: 318 × 217 × 46 mm. Size of leaf: 307 × 207 mm. Provenance: Pavia, Augustinians, S. Marcellus; from 1502 Augustinian Canons Regular of the Lateran, S. Epiphanius; on a1r: ‘Clericorum Regul[arium] Sancti Marceli Papi&ecedilla;’. R. Wilkinson († by Apr. 1797); engraved monogram ‘R W’; see Rogers, ‘Wilkinson’, no. 2; Howe, Book Plates, 32796; sale (London: Leigh and Sotheby, 3 Apr. 1797), lot 148, marked down to [Edward?] Bruce for £0. 1. 0. Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); note signed and dated 13 May 1797 on the verso of the front endleaf, with price £0. 9. 0. John Edmund Severne (1826-1899); sale (1886), lot 197; purchased for £0. 5. 0; see Library Bills. SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.13.
A-416 Aristoteles De pomo, et al.
[a1r] Aristoteles [pseudo-] De pomo. ‘De pomo et morte.’ Translated by Manfredus, son of Fridericus II. See A-386. [b2v] Aristoteles De bona fortuna. Incipit: ‘[H]abitum autem vtique erit hiis dicere quoniam de facilitate est sermo de bona fortuna . . .’ A combination of Magna moralia II,8 and Ethica Eudemica VII,14 (VIII,14); see AL (1957), I 72-3. [b7v] Aristoteles [pseudo-;author Costa Ben Luca] De differentia spiritus et animae. [Translated by Johannes Hispalensis.] Excerpta ex libro Alfredi Anglici . . . item Costa-ben-Lucae De differentia animae et spiritus, ed. C. S. Barach (Innsbruck, 1878), 120-39. See Thorndike–Kibre 771. On authorship and the translation see Grabmann, Forschungen, 249. [c8r] Aristoteles [pseudo-] Physiognomia. [Translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina.] See A-386. [e3v] Aristoteles De inundatione Nili. D. Bonneau, ‘Liber Aristotelis de inundatione Nili. Texte, traduction, étude’, Études de papyrologie, 9 (1971), 1-33. See Thorndike–Kibre 1144. On authorship see PAL 44-5 no. 61, AL (1957), I 90 and C. B. Schmitt, ‘Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages’, in Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The Theology and other Texts, ed. J. Kraye, W. F. Ryan, and C. B. Schmitt (London, 1986), 1-14, at 14 n. 54.
[Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, c.1472]. 4°. [a–d8 e6]. GW 2450;HC 1786;Goff A-1028;BMC I 204;Pr 958;CIBN A-541; Oates 439; Osler, IM 48; Sheppard 724; Voulliéme, Köln, 161.
Copy No red printing, unlike GW and BMC. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled half morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 198 × 137 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 191 × 130 mm. Partly foliated in an early hand from 44 to 80. On [a1r], [b2v], [b7v], and [c8r] initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue with some pen flourishing, partly historiated. Smaller initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); armorial book-plate; Elenchus, no. 478. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 4.6.
A-417 Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Cur exuperantiae.
[a2r] Gupalatinus, Nicolaus ‘Prefatio in Problemata Aristotelis.’ Dedicated to Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[P]roblemata Aristotelis emendatissima ut nunc sunt Latina lingua ante hac non habuit . . .’ [a3r] Aristoteles Problemata. [Translated by Theodorus Gaza.] Incipit: ‘[C]ur exuperantie nimie committendi morbi uim habeant . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 360; on Gaza’s translation see Livia Martinoli Santini, ‘Le traduzioni dal greco’, in Un pontificato ed una città, 81-101, note 19. On authorship see Carl Prantl, ‘Ueber die Probleme des Aristoteles’, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-philologische Classe, 6 (1852), 339-77; E. Richter, De Aristotelis problematis (Bonn, 1885); E. S. Forster, ‘The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problems: Their Nature and Composition’, Classical Quarterly, 22 (1928), 163-5; Brian Lawn, The Salernitan Questions: An Introduction to the History of Medieval and Renaissance Problem Literature (Oxford, 1963), 96; see J. Monfasani, ‘Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in mid-quattrocento Rome’, in Supplementum Festivum: Studies in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. J. Hankins and others (Binghamton, NY, 1987), 189-219, at 207; J. Monfasani, ‘Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle’s De Animalibus’, in Natural Particulars, ed. Grafton and Siraisi, 205-47. [r5r] [Colophon with note on the translator.]
Rome: Johannes Reinhardi, 19 May 1475. 4°. [a b10 c8 d–i10 k8 l6 m–o10 p8 q10 r6]. GW 2453;HC 1730;Goff A-1031;BMC IV 53;Pr 3473;CIBN A-544; Osler, IM, 85; Sheppard 2784.
Provenance: Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century French gold-tooled blue morocco by P. Lefebvre (for comte MacCarthy Reagh). Size: 281 × 203 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 272 × 188 mm. Red ruling. Provenance: Justin, Count MacCarthy-Reagh (1744-1811); sale (Paris 1815), I lot 1380. Purchased by Heber for £1, according to the price annotated in red ink in Heber’s sale catalogue. Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 5 (1835), lot 279, sold for £1. 9. 0. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1835; note on the endleaf; sale (1837), lot 66. Purchased for £2; see Books Purchased (1837), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.19.
A-418 Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
A2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Problemata. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” scribit Arestoteles, princeps philozophorum, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest redidi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ Problemata Varia Anatomica. The University of Bologna, MS. 1165, ed. L. R. Lind (Lawrence, Kan., 1968). See Lawn, Salernitan Questions, 99-103.
[Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen], 1494. 4°. A–F6. GW 2460;H *1732;Goff A-1034;Pr 2864;Sheppard 2077.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled pasteboards. Size: 209 × 150 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 203 × 139 mm. Provenance: Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849); inscription: ‘Quatremère de Quincy’ on front pastedown. Royal Library, Munich, 1858. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; nos 1063 and 1000 in list of duplicates in quarto. Bibliothèque Quatremère, part 2 (1859) no. 2557. Purchased for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1859), 10. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.13.
A-419 Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
a2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Problemata. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” scribit Arestoteles, princeps philosophorum, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A-418. f3v ‘Liber de vita et morte Arestotelis omnium philosophorum principis.’ ‘[N]ature causa rerum rector sine pausa &pipe; Cuius factura fertur queuis genitura.’ See Walther, Initia, 11606 and Grabmann, Geistesleben, II 97. With printed interlinear glosses. f3v [Commentary on the Vita Aristotelis.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de vita et morte Aresto[telis], qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duas partes, in quarum prima determinat de origine Aresto[telis] . . .’ Commentary alternates with the text.
[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1490]. 4°.Variant on title-page noted by GW: audentibus (state A) and audientibus (state B). a–g6 h8. GW 2469;HC *1724 = 1788a;Pr 1392;Campbell 180; CIBN A-545; Oates 799; Sheppard 997; Voulliéme, Köln, 152.
Copy State A. Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco, with dark blue cloth over pasteboards; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 196 × 136 × 11 mm. Size of leaf: 188 × 128 mm. Initials are supplied in blue with reserved white decoration and red; paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. Provenance: Purchased at anonymous sale (25 Feb. 1886), lot 901, for £0. 7. 0. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.30.
A-420 Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
a1v Aristoteles [pseudo-] Problemata. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” scribit Arestoteles, philosophorum princeps, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A-418. f3r ‘Liber de vita et morte Arestotelis omnium philosophorum principis’. ‘[N]ature causa rerum rector sine pausa &pipe; Cuius factura fertur queuis genitura’. See Walther, Initia, 11606 and Grabmann, Geistesleben, II 97. With printed interlinear glosses. f3r [Commentary on the Vita Aristotelis.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de vita et morte Aresto[telis], qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duas partes, in quarum prima determinat de origine Aresto[telis] . . .’ Commentary alternates with the text.
[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1490]. 4°. a–h6. GW 2470;C 624;not in Pr;Oates 744; Sheppard 998; Voulliéme, Köln, 153.
First copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco; bound for Bywater; marbled pastedowns. Size: 208 × 140 × 12 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 130 mm. Early marginal notes. On h6v: ‘Sexus femineus nouitatis est auidus raroque virum amat, cuius copiam habet. Animus mulieris instabilis: tot sunt voluntates, quot in arboribus folia. Sunt homines qu[e]dam ut mulieres, que cum maxime nolle dicunt, tum maxime volunt. Nemo nobilis est nisi virtutis amator. Reperiuntur aliq[ui] senes amantes id est(?) amatos ver[o] null[i]. Iuuenes animos res ista delectat. Matronis et puellis est despectum senium. Nullius amoris m(?) mulier ni[si] quem videtur etate florentem. Si quid aliter audis, deceptio subest. Amor plus habet fellis quam mellis. Omnium rerum respiciendus est finis. Primus sapientie gradus est non amare, secundus ut sic ames ut palum fiat. Rerum omnium domit[i]o amor. Non facile custoditur, quod a pluribus amatur vel impugnatur.’ Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 392. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 1.24. Second copy Not in Sheppard. Binding: Twentieth-century English grey paper boards; bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (stamp on the verso of the front endleaf). Size: 203 × 145 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 196 × 136 mm. Some early annotations. Bibliographical notes by Lawn on the verso of the front endleaf and on a loose leaf of paper. Provenance: E. Weil. Dr Brian Lawn (1905-2001); purchased from Weil in 1954 (see Lawn catalogue, p. 8); book-plate; catalogue, pp. 8, 25. Bequeathed in 2001. SHELFMARK: Lawn e.4.
A-421 Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
a1v Aristoteles [pseudo-] Problemata. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” scribit Arestoteles, philosophorum princeps, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A-418. f3r ‘Liber de vita et morte Arestotelis omnium philosophorum principis.’ ‘[N]ature causa rerum rector sine pausa &pipe; Cuius factura fertur queuis genitura.’ See Walther, Initia, 11606 and Grabmann, Geistesleben, II 97. With printed interlinear glosses. f3r [Commentary on the Vita Aristotelis.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de vita et morte Aresto[telis], qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duas partes, in quarum prima determinat de origine Aresto[telis] . . .’ Commentary alternates with the text.
[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1493]. 4°. a–h6. On a1r ‘Accipies’ woodcut: see Schreiber–Heitz no. 18. GW 2472;H *1721;Goff A-1041;BMC I 281;Pr 1410;CIBN A-548; Schramm VIII 21; Schreiber V 3352; Sheppard 999; Voulliéme, Köln, 155.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century brown embossed paper backed with brown cloth. Size: 211 × 154 × 12 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 146 mm. On a1v an initial is supplied in pen with drawing of a grotesque face. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 391. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 1.23.
A-422 Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
a2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Problemata. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” vt scribit Aristoteles, princeps philosophorum, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A-418. e1r ‘Liber de vita et morte Aristotelis omnium philosophorum principis.’ ‘[N]ature causa rerum rector sine pausa &pipe; Cuius factura fertur queuis genitura.’ See Walther, Initia, 11606 and Grabmann, Geistesleben, II 97. With printed interlinear glosses. e1r [Commentary on the Vita Aristotelis.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de vita et morte Aristotelis, qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duas partes, in quarum prima determinat de origine Arestotelis . . .’ Commentary alternates with the text.
Paris: [Étienne Jehannot] for Denis Roce, [c.1499]. 4°.Assigned by Sheppard to Jehannot, by GW to [Jean Poitevin, c.1500]. a8 b–g6. On a1v a woodcut depicting a pondering reader in front of a lectern. Woodcut initials. GW 2475;Pr 8374;Sheppard 6500.
Copy Bound with:&br;1. Seth Ward, De cometis. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1653 (Wing W820);&br;2. Johannes Tack, Coeli anomalion. Gießen: Officina Chemliniana, 1653;&br;3. Cyprianus von Leowitz, De coniunctionibus magnis. London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1573 (STC 15484);&br;4. Johannes de Hese, Itinerarium per diversas mundi partes. Paris, Robert Gourmont for Olivier Senant, [1505-12];&br;6. Gualtherus Burlaeus, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Paris: Raoul Laliseau, [n. d.]. Binding: Seventeenth-century English, calf, between 1653 and 1674; on both covers triple fillets form a border. Size: 170 × 134 × 39 mm. Size of leaf: 164 × 125 mm. Fragments from a sixteenth-century work containing sermons, formerly used as pastedowns, now raised. A few marginal notes. Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654)(?). Presented in 1659(?); not found in the manuscript catalogues of the Selden donation, but listed in Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 42, with the same shelfmark as it carries today. SHELFMARK: 4° W 11(5) Art. Seld.
(A-423) Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
[Cologne: Martin von Werden, 1506-13]. 4°.As dated by Schreiber–Heitz. Assigned by Voulliéme, Köln, p. 66 to the sixteenth century on the basis of the woodcut. A6 B C4 D6. ‘Accipies’ woodcut on A1r and D6v; see Schreiber–Heitz no. 60 (1506-13). GW II col. 650;H *1727;Goff A-1036;Pr 1485;Sack, Freiburg, 286a; Schreiber V 3355; not in Sheppard; Voulliéme, Köln, p. 66.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century German(?) pasteboards covered with leaves from a parchment manuscript in Latin dyed dark blue, over parchment leaves from another manuscript. Size: 218 × 154 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 205 × 137 mm. Provenance: Hamilton Alder Roberts (nineteenth century); book-plate. John Glover (†1860); signature on the front pastedown. Purchased from Quaritch in 1884. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.25.
A-424 Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
a2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Problemata. Incipit: ‘0.6 mm“[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant”, vt scribit Arestotiles, princeps philosophorum, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A-418.
Antwerp: Govaert Bac, [not before 21 Sept. 1500]. 4°.Dating as HPT. Nijhoff–Kronenberg date [c.1505]. a8 b–e4.6 f4. On a1r woodcut depicting man resting under a tree, in which is seated another man. On a1v woodcut depicting a dedication scene with a kneeling scribe and a standing nobleman. GW II col. 650;HC *1728;Goff A-1037;Pr 9448;Campbell 182; HPT II 392; Nijhoff–Kronenberg 140; not in Sheppard.
Copy Binding: Dark green gold-tooled morocco. Size: 182 × 133 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 175 × 129 mm. Provenance: William Clark (nineteenth century); armorial book-plate. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.55.
A-425 Aristoteles Rhetorica (trans. Guilelmus de Moerbeka).
A2r Alfarabius (Abû Nar Muammad B. Muammad B. Tarkhân B. Awzalagh Al-fârâbî) ‘Declaratio compendiosa super libris Rhetoricorum.’ Edited by Lancillotus de Zerlis. [Translated by Hermannus de Schildesche [Alemannus].] Incipit: ‘[N]os autem erimus contenti isto modo, quod memorabimur tractatus . . .’ See W. F. Bogess, ‘Hermannus Alemannus’s rhetorical translations’, Viator, 2 (1971), 227-36. A10v [Note on the editor.] a1r Aristoteles Rhetorica. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Rhetorica, ed. Bernhardus Schneider, AL 31/1-2 (1978), 159-321. On the translation see Grabmann, Forschungen, 242-3 and AL (1957), I 77. On Moerbeka’s translation see Minio-Paluello, ‘Moerbeke, William of’, DSB IX 434-40. f1r Hermannus [de Schildesche] Alemannus [Note on his edition.] De arte poetica, ed. L. Minio-Paluello, AL 33 (1968), 41. f1r Averroes (Ibn Rushd) ‘Determinatio in poetria Aristotiles.’ Translated by Hermannus [de Schildesche] Alemannus. De arte poetica, ed. L. Minio-Paluello, AL 33 (1968), 41-74. See AL (1957), I 103.
Venice: Filippo de Pietro, 22 June 1481. Folio. A10 a–f8 g6. GW 2478;HC 1681 = H *821;Goff A-1046;BMC V 222;Pr 4282;BSB-Ink A-719; CIBN A-536; Sheppard 3453.
Copy Bound with A-095; see there for details of binding. Size of leaf: 310 × 205 mm. Wanting the blank leaf A1. Provenance: Presented by William Gent (fl. 1562-1611); see Benefactors’ Register I 14; James, Catalogus (1605), 285: ‘Alpharabius in Rhetor. Arist. Ven. 1481′, with shelfmark A 3.3 [Art]; Jensen, ‘Benefactors’ Register’, no. 34. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.15(1).
A-426 Aristoteles Rhetorica (trans. Guilelmus de Moerbeka).
a1r Dottanius Menigensis, Georgius ‘Hexastichon.’ ‘Excipe Aristotelem toti quem contulit orbi &pipe; Stagira praeclarum lector amice iubar’; 3 elegiac distichs. a1v ‘Ad lectorem prefacio.’ Incipit: ‘Quantum Aristoteli mortalium genus debeat, nemo non mente sanus videt . . .’ a2r Aristoteles Rhetorica. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] See A-425.
[Leipzig: Jacobus Thanner, c.1499]. Folio. a–l6. GW 2479;H 1679;Pr 3086;Sheppard 2173.
Copy Binding: Pasteboards. Size: 292 × 224 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 287 × 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased for £1. 0. 0; listed in Library Bills (1827-8), no. 137 in the list of ‘Books purchased by the Librarian’; see Books Purchased (1837), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.23.
A-427 Aristoteles Secreta secretorum (trans. pseudo-Philippus Tripolitanus).
a2r [Table of contents.] a3r Philippus [Tripolitanus pseudo-] ‘Prologus illius qui transtulit librum istum de greco in latinum.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omino suo excellentissimo in cultu religionis christiane strennuissimo Guidoni de Valentia, ciuitatis Tripolis glorioso pontifici, Philippus suorum minimus clericorum seipsum et fidelis deuotionis obsequium. Dignum fuit vt haberet vestra clementia istum librum . . .’ A shortened version of the prologue as edited in Hiltgart von Hürnheim, Mittelhochdeutsche Prosaübersetzung des ‘Secretum secretorum’, ed. Reinhold Möller, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 56 (Berlin, 1963), 1-2. See Thorndike–Kibre 465. a3v Aristoteles [pseudo-] Secreta secretorum. [Translated by pseudo-Philippus Tripolitanus.] Incipit: ‘[R]eges sunt quatuor, scilicet largus sibi et subditis, auarus sibi et subditis, item rex auarus sibi et largus subditis et rex largus sibi et auarus subditis . . .’expl.: Et haec sufficiant pro nunc. In 30 numbered chapters, lacking chapter 23; approximately corresponding to chapters 4-8, 10-17, 19, 211, 20, 212-24, 252-441, 50-2, 42-3 (see also 55-6, Anhang no. 1), 651, 671, 70-1, 73, 75-6 in Hiltgart von Hürnheim, ed. Möller. On the text see Grabmann, Forschungen, 250 and M. A. Manzalaoui, ‘Philip of Tripoli and his Textual Methods’, in Pseudo-Aristotle, The Secret of Secrets: Sources and Influences, ed. W. F. Ryan and C. B. Schmitt (London, 1982), 55-72. On the textual transmission see Richard Förster, ‘Handschriften und Ausgaben des pseudo-aristotelischen Secretum secretorum’, Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 6 (1889), 1-22 and 57-76, at 15-18; VL VIII 993-1013. On the translation see PAL 54-75 no. 81.B and AL (1957), I 93.
[Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, 1486-91]. 4°. a–c6 d4. Woodcut initial. GW 2483;C 638;Pr 9408;Campbell 177; CIBN A-555; Oates 3941; Sheppard 7200.
Copy Leaf d4r, l.2: ‘ . . . cui&longs;libet.’ Binding: Parchment. Size: 200 × 142 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 192 × 136 mm. Provenance: On endleaf ‘Bought at the Kockx sale, Antwerp. received 28 Jan. 1892′; invoice in Library Bills (1892), but the individual items cannot be identified. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.40.
A-428 Aristoteles Secreta secretorum (trans. pseudo-Philippus Tripolitanus).
a1v ‘Tabula libri presentis.’ a2r Aristoteles [pseudo-] Secreta secretorum. ‘Documenta Arestotelis de conseruatione sanitatis ad Alexandrum magnum discipulum suum.’ [Translated by pseudo-Philippus Tripolitanus.] Incipit: ‘[C]um corpus humanum corrumpatur propter contrarietatem humorum et qualitatem elementorum ex quibus est mixtum, ideo volo tibi, o Alexander . . .’ In 14 chapters, beginning with chapter 15 of the longer version, omitting chapter 27 and concluding with chapter 30; approximately corresponding to chapters 27-8, 30-441, 50-2, 55-6 (see Anhang no. 1), 651, 671, 70-1, 73, 75-6 in Hiltgart von Hürnheim, ed. Möller. See Thorndike–Kibre 288. On the text see also A-427. c3v Kamicus [pseudo-;author Jacobi, Johannes] Regimen contra pestilentiam. ‘De conseruatione contra pestilentiam.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ro quo notandum est iuxta dictum summi medici per Jheremiam dicentem, quod homo primo se debeat diuertere a malo ad bonum . . .’ Work attributed in incunable editions to Benedictus Kamisius, Kamintus, Canutus, or Kanuti (erroneously identified with Bengt Knutsson, Bishop of Västerås (1461-2); see Gams 341); the author is Johannes Jacobi (i.e. Jean Jasme or Jacme); see Karl Sudhoff, ‘Pestschriften aus den ersten 150 Jahren nach der Epidemie des “schwarzen Todes” 1348′, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, 17 (Leipzig, 1925); Wickersheimer II 422-4, at 423. For individual incunable editions of the text; see Klebs–Sudhoff 19-25, and A. C. Klebs and E. Droz, Remèdes contre la peste (Paris, 1925), 65-8; see also J-001. d1r ‘Tabula libri sequentis.’ d1v Arnoldus de Villa Nova Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum. ‘De conseruatione corporis seu de regimine sanitatis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]rima pars vel consideratio sanitatis conseruande pertinet aeris electioni . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1095. See Wickersheimer I 45-99, and Juan A. Paniagua, Estudios y notas sobre Arnau de Vilanova (Madrid, 1963), 21-2.
[Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, c.1491]. 4°. a6 b c4 d e6 f4 g6. Woodcut initials. GW 2485;C 658;not in Pr;Campbell–Kronenberg 169a; HPT II 389; ILC 278; Oates 3974; Proctor, Campbell, 1727A; Sheppard 7202.
Copy Wanting gatherings d–g. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf. Size: 203 × 140 × 12 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 130 mm. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Provenance: On endleaf ‘H. A. Feb. 28. 1828.’ Oxford, Radcliffe Library; see former shelfmarks; not found in Catalogue (1835). Stamp ‘193(?).’ Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: G 160 a.5; RR.w.315; 21 a 2.13; 77 E 7. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. N14.2.4.
A-429 Aristoteles Secreta secretorum (trans. pseudo-Philippus Tripolitanus).
[a2r] [Philippus Tripolitanus Prologus.] Hiltgart von Hürnheim, ed. Möller, 1-2. See Thorndike–Kibre 465. [a3v] Aristoteles [pseudo-] Secreta secretorum. [Translated by pseudo-Philippus Tripolitanus.] Incipit: ‘[D]eus omnipotens custodiat regem nostrum, gloriam credentium et confirmet regnum suum ad tuendam legem diuinam suam . . .’expl.: declina semper ad meliorem et probabiliorem partem. In 74 chapters, chapter number 14 used twice, lacking chapters 57, 59-61, 63-6; closely corresponding to chapters 1-45, 47-52, 55-6 (see Anhang no. 1), 53-76 in Hiltgart von Hürnheim, ed. Möller. See Thorndike–Kibre 410. On the text see also A-427. h8v ‘Tytuli seu tabula.’
[Paris: Printer of Ockam, 1476]. 4°.As dated by Sheppard; GW dates [c.1480], CIBN [c.1477]. [a b] c–f8 g h10. GW 2486;Pr 7916;CIBN A-556; Sheppard 6127.
Copy Bound with A-021(1); see there for details of binding, manuscript notes, and provenance. Size of leaf: 199 × 137 mm. SHELFMARK: S. Seld. e.1(3).
A-430 Aristoteles De virtutibus (trans. Georgius Hermonymus).
a1r Aristoteles [pseudo-] De virtutibus. [Translated by Georgius Hermonymus.] Incipit: ‘Omne honestum laudabile est. Turpe omne vituperabile . . .’ See C. B. Schmitt, ‘Aristotle’s Ethics in the Sixteenth Century: Some Preliminary Considerations’, in Ethik im Humanismus, ed. W. Rüegg and D. Wuttke (Boppard, 1979), 87-112, at 103-11. a6r Dicta septem sapientum. Translated by Georgius Hermonymus. Incipit: ‘Solonis Atheniensis. Nihil nimis uel dices uel ages . . .’
[Paris: Ulrich Gering, c.1480]. 4°. a8. GW 2497;H 2083 (II–III);BMC VIII 22;Pr 7876;Sheppard 6147-8.
First copy Bound with:&br;1. Robertus Gaguinus, Ars versificatoria. Carmina diversa. Paris: Ulrich Gering, c.1479;&br;3. Augustinus, De dignitate sacerdotum. Paris: Ulrich Gering, c.1478-82. Binding: Nineteenth-century tree calf; gold-tooled spine; marbled pastedowns. Size: 204 × 140 × 16 mm. Size of leaf: 197 × 133 mm. On [a3v]–[a4v] of item 3, 41 couplets of rhythmic verse, possibly part of a morality play with allegorical figures of virtues and vices, Mors, Peccator, Justus, Diabolus, and others, written in a contemporary hand; incipit: ‘Fili, in spem ah[er]onis(?) &pipe; Memor esto Christi passionis (sacerdos). &pipe; Ecce carnem sanctam domini &pipe; Fugisti hostes nil nocentes huic homini (clericus).’ Provenance: ‘Tabourel’, inscription on g8v of item 1 in a sixteenth-century hand; possibly Étienne Tabourot (1549-1590) or Jacques Tabouret (see Hilliard 1000). Purchased by Heber for £0. 19. 0, along with other items in a lot, according to the price annotated in red ink in Heber’s sale catalogue. Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 2 (1834), part of lot 2224. Purchased for £0. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1834), 11. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.79(2). Second copy Bound with A-139; see there for details of binding. Size of leaf: 189 × 126 mm. The first gathering of item 5 is misbound after item 6. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: ‘D[ou]ble’ and ‘W 285′ on a1r; similar note on item 2. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce O 126(10).
A-431 Arnoldus de Geilhoven Gnotosolitos, sive Speculum conscientiae.
[a1v] [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘Presens hoc speculum conscientie, quod Gnotosolitos dicitur hominem sui et dei consequenter docens cognitionem . . .’ [a1v] ‘Versus.’ ‘Qui modo longinquas potui percurrere terras &pipe; Hactenus in paucis vix bene notus eram’; 8 distichs. Polain 1558-1558a. See Walther, Initia, 15558. [a1v] [Verse.] ‘Hoc speculum cunctis optandum gnotosolitos &pipe; Crescere haut poterit quantum de iure meretur’; 5 hexameters. See Polain 1558-1558a. [a1v] [Verse.] ‘Hoc speculo ne quis careat sibi consulo vendat &pipe; Vnam qui binas possidet hic tunicas’; 1 distich. See Polain 1558-1558a. [a1v] [Verse.] ‘Hic ager est in quo census reconditur, ob quem &pipe; Cetera venduntur, hic solus ac emitur’; 1 distich. See Polain 1558-1558a. [a1v] [Verse.] ‘Vt careas labe gnotosolito et habe’; 1 pentameter. See Polain 1558-1558a. [a2r] [Arnoldus de Geilhoven Prefatory letter] dedicated to Walterus de Bulct, Wilhelmus de Druempt and Johannes Danieels. Incipit: ‘[H]onestis fidelibus ac discretis viris Waltero de Bulct, Wilhelmo de Druempt ac Johanni Danieelis, secretariis, scribis ac clericis Bruxellensis, notabilioris, pulcrioris ac ditioris oppidi totius ducatus Brabantie . . .’ [a3v] ‘Rubrice primi libri.’ [a4v] [Arnoldus de Geilhoven] ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]vero primo quotuplex est lex. Sciendum quod ad cognoscendum ordinem . . .’ [b4r] [Arnoldus de Geilhoven] Gnotosolitos, sive Speculum conscientiae. Pars I. Incipit: ‘[E]xpedit cuilibet agnoscere septem peccata moralia . . . [S]uperbia. Quero primo quid est superbia. Solucio. Superbia est amor proprie excellentie qua homo alta cupit . . .’ See N. Mann, ‘Arnoldus Geilhoven: An Early Disciple of Petrarch in the Low Countries’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 32 (1969), 73-108, at 96; Boekdrukkunst (1973), 93, with bibliography. [L10v] [Verse.] ‘Vt careas labe gnotosolito et habe’; 1 pentameter. See Polain 1558-1558a. [M2r] ‘Tabula.’ [M12r] ‘Solucio questionis 56 tituli 2 capituli primi libri.’ Incipit: ‘S[olutionem], dicit Ast, uer. s.’ The ‘questio’ is on [K6r]. [N1r] ‘Rubrice secunde partis.’ [N1v] [Arnoldus de Geilhoven] Gnotosolitos, sive Speculum conscientiae. Pars II. Incipit: ‘[Q]uero primo, quod est censura ecclesiastica. S[olutionem], dicit Johannes de Lignano, in tractatu de censura ecclesiastica . . .’
Brussels: [Fratres Vitae Communis], 25 May 1476. Folio. Part I: [a–n10 o8 p–z A–D10 E8]; part II: [F–H10 I K8 L10 M12 N–Y10 Z aa bb8 cc4]. GW 2512;HC 7514;Goff A-1063;Pr 9327;BSB-Ink A-749; CIBN A-567; Brussels exhib. 1973, 200-2; Campbell 830; Hillard 189; HPT I 27, II 397, 482; Polain 1558-1558a; Rhodes 172; Sheppard 7172.
Copy Wanting [bb8] and gathering [cc]. Leaf [a1] backed. Bound in two volumes. Binding: Both volumes bound in nineteenth-century olive morocco; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves. On both covers of each volume a frame formed of five fillets, with floral tool at each corner. Size: Vol. 1: 397 × 292 × 47 mm; vol. 2: 397 × 292 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 344 × 226 mm; 382 × 267 mm. Early marginal annotations and pointing hands in vol. 1 only. Six- to sixteen-line initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue, with red and/or black (now faded) pen-work in the area defined by the letters, and extensions into the margins in red. Two- to six-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Yellow capital strokes. The decoration is described in Elly Cockx-Indestege, ‘The Gnotosolitos of Arnold of Geilhoven Published by the Brothers of the Common Life in Brussels in 1476: Observations on the Surviving Copies as Evidence for the Distribution’, in Incunabula, ed. Davies, 27-77, at 64, the initial on [a2r] is fig. 2b. Provenance: David Stuart Ker (1816-1878); anonymous sale (1847), lot 531. Purchased for £3. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1847), 14. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 1.10-11.
A-432 Arnoldus A Lude de Tungeris Epitomata, sive Reparationes logicae veteris et novae Aristotelis.
Part I. 1A1r ‘Ad lectorem.’ ‘Presulis Alberti logices epitomata lector &pipe; Quique stupor mundo prodigiumque fuit’; 2 elegiac distichs. A2r Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris ‘Reparationes predicabilium Porphi[rii].’ Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium logice quedam preambulariter queruntur primo, quot sunt habitus intellectuales . . .’ See Lohr (1967), 369 no. 1 for this and the other items in this edition. E5v Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris ‘Reparationes predicamentorum Aristotelis.’ Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium predicamentorum Aristotelis queritur primo, que est ratio ordinis istius libri ad sequentem . . .’ M1v Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris ‘Reparationes sex principiorum Gilberti.’ Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri sex principiorum Gilberti Porritani queritur primo, quid sit subiectum istius libri . . .’ O5v Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris ‘Reparationes libri Perihermeniarum Aristotelis.’ Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri Perihermenias Arestotelis queritur primo, que est ratio ordinis istius libri ad precedentes et sequentes . . .’ S5v [Colophon with note on author and editor.] Part II. 2A1v Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris Reparationes Priorum Analyticorum Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca inicium noue logice Arestotelis queritur primo, de quo determinatur in noua logica . . .’ G6r Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris Reparationes Posteriorum Analyticorum Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri Posteriorum Analyticorum Arestotelis queritur primo, quid est subiectum istius libri . . .’ P3v Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris Reparationes Topicorum Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri Topicorum Arestotelis queritur primo, quid est subiectum istius libri . . .’ Z2v Arnoldus a Lude de Tungeris Reparationes Elenchorum Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca exordium libri Elenchorum queritur primo, vtrum de elencho sophistico sit scientia . . .’ EE4r [Colophon with note on the author and editor.]
Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1500. 4°.In two parts, dated: (1) 3 Feb. 1500; (2) 29 July 1500. 1A–S6. 2A–Z6 AA–DD6 EE4. Woodcuts on 1C3v (‘Arbor Porphiriana’) and 2E2v. GW 2515;R 1097;Goff A-1064;Pr 1364;BSB-Ink A-754; Schreiber V 3362; Sheppard 1047; Voulliéme, Köln, 165 = 166.
Copy Part II bound first. Leaf 1S4 bound before 1S3. Wanting Q6, gathering R and S1.6 in part I; wanting A2.5 and A3.4 in part II. Binding: Early seventeenth-century English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf over pasteboards; staple-marks at head of the upper cover. On both covers triple fillets form a double frame. In the frames an ornamental roll: see Gibson, Oxford Bindings, pl. xl, roll xxiv. Size: 195 × 138 × 49 mm. Size of leaf: 187 × 127 mm. Pastedowns from a history of the Turkish sultans in English, printed in the seventeenth century. Scribbles and drawings by various hands on front endleaf. Occasional early marginal notes. On 1S5v: ‘O deus omnipotens Vituli miserere Johannis. &pipe; O deus, In quantis Animis Versatur amantis. &pipe; O gude why exilyd am I from company’: see Ludwig Bertalot ‘Eine humanistische Anthologie’, in Studien zum italienischen und deutschen Humanismus, ed. P. O. Kristeller, I, Storia e letteratura, 129 (Rome, 1975), 1-82, at 40-1, no. 100. Provenance: William Tennand (sixteenth century); several inscriptions on 2A1r and 1A1v. Humphrey Barcroft (†1610); on 1A1v: ‘Humphray Barcroft. Emmanuell. John. William’. Acquired by 1728; see Fysher, Catalogus, II 100 (listed under Logica). SHELFMARK: B 8.18 Linc.
A-433 Arnoldus de Villa Nova De arte cognoscendi venena.
[a1r] Arnoldus de Villa Nova De arte cognoscendi venena. Incipit: ‘[T]imens de uenenis caueat sibi de manu cuius recipiet cibos et potus suos et maxime potum uini . . .’ Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Opera (Lyons, 1520), fols 221va-222ra. See Thorndike–Kibre 1573; Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum Latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum (Madrid, 1959), 342 no. 1694; Juan A. Paniagua, Estudios y notas sobre Arnau de Vilanova (Madrid, 1963), 20; Juan A. Paniagua, El maestro Arnau de Vilanova médico (Valencia, 1969), 67. [a4r] ‘Additio.’ Incipit: ‘[N]ota quod curatio ueneni fit aliquo istorum quatuor modorum . . .’ [a4r] Valascus de Tarenta ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[P]remeditans procellam humani generis morbis epidimialibns(!) continue illatam, in honorem dei et uirginis gloriose et ne candela sub modio recondatur . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1083. [a4v] [Table of contents.] [a4v] Valascus de Tarenta De epidemia et peste. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod uidimus testamur et quod testamur uerum est . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1256; A. C. Klebs and K. Sudhoff, Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften (Munich, 1926), 54 and 76 no. 119; A. C. Klebs and E. Droz, Remèdes contre la peste (Paris, 1925), 89 no. 119. [c2r] [Table of contents.] [c3v] Petrus de Abano [Prologue addressed to] Nicolaus III, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[R]everendissimo in Cristo patri et domino domino Nicolao, diuina prouidentia summo pontifici . . .’ [c4r] Petrus de Abano De venenis. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia uenenum oppositum est cibo nostri corporis ideo sicut cibus ipse efficitur pars nostri corporis . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1234. [e7v] [Silvaticus, Matthaeus] De lapide Begaar [Bezoar] ex pandectis. Incipit: ‘[L]apis Begaar Latine uel lapis liberans a uenenis Arabi, Hager, Begaar. Begaar est nomen Persicum et est expellens nocumentum . . .’ See Silvaticus, Pandectarum opus (Venice, 1524), sig. q3v, with some variations; also Thorndike II,909-10. On authorship see Thorndike III 233-4.
Mantua: [Johannes Vurster and Johannes Baumeister], 1473. 4°. [a b8 c10 d e8]. GW 2522;HC 7 + 1805;Goff A-1067;BMC VII 929;Pr 6884;BSB-Ink A-735; CIBN A-569; Oates 2583; Osler, IM, 41; Rhodes, ‘Mantua’, 178-9, nos 9 and 12; Sheppard 5618-19.
First copy Wanting the blank leaf [c1]. Gatherings [c]–[e] bound before [a]–[b]. Binding: Mottled sheep(?) [Sheppard describes as brown morocco]; marbled pastedowns. Size: 242 × 173 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 234 × 161 mm. Occasional marginal annotations. Five- and three-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: inscription: ‘De Peregrinis’, on [c2r]. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; probably purchased by the Radcliffe Library in 1850 from William Pamplin (1806-1899); note on verso of endleaf: ‘Pamplin, Nov. 20, 1850′; white shelfmark label inside the upper cover, with ‘RR.W.297′ written in pencil over an earlier shelfmark. Transferred by the Radcliffe Trustees between 1861 and 1893. Former Radcliffe shelfmark: RR.W.297. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I18.1473.1. Second copy Wanting gatherings [a] and [b]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf. Size: 218 × 160 × 9 mm. Size of leaf: 211 × 148 mm. Manuscript titles on [c1r]. Provenance: Giuseppe Serra, Duca di Cassano († before 1826); see Catalogo, 5, under ‘Abano, Pet. de’. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 1; purchased for £0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 1 and the annotated sale catalogue. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.23.
A-434 Arnoldus de Villa Nova Breviarium practicae medicinae.
a1r [Title-page.] a2r Arnoldus de Villa Nova [pseudo-] ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ost obitum bone memorie magistri Joannis Casamide medicinalis scientie professoris reuerendissimi . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1065. a2r Arnoldus de Villa Nova [pseudo-] Breviarium practicae medicinae. Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Opera (Lyons, 1520), fols 150va–205rb. See Thorndike–Kibre 1258; Medizin und Kultur. Gesammelte Aufsätze von Paul Diepgen . . ., 120-7, for the argument in favour of the authenticity of the Breviarium and René Verrier, Etudes sur Arnaud de Villeneuve: III Le Breviarium Practicae ou Arnaud de Villeneuve et l’Italie (Leiden, 1949), who disputes Arnoldus’s authorship; Verrier’s assertion is disputed by Miquel Batllori, ‘Arnau de Vilanova en Italie’, Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia, 23 (1951), 83-101; see also Juan A. Paniagua, El maestro Arnau de Vilanova médico (Valencia, 1969), 53-5. l5r ‘Tabula siue registrum capitulorum.’
Venice: Otinus de Luna, Papiensis, 21 Oct. 1497. Folio. a–d6 e8 f–l6. GW 2529;HC 1802;Goff A-1074;Pr 5606;BSB-Ink A-742; Sack, Freiburg, 298; Sheppard 4688.
Copy Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century English calf; ‘Cambridge style’; double blind fillets form a border within which is a mottled compartment; a plain compartment within double fillets, with a floral tool at the corners; a mottled compartment with triple blind fillets. Size: 304 × 207 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 300 × 196 mm. Early marginal annotations and pointing hands. Notes, in English, of loans and receipts, and pen-trials on a1r; on l6r-v, humorous prose, also ‘Mistakes out of Scripture’, ‘Of Malefactours’ and ‘To make Ink’, and pen-trials, all in various seventeenth-century hands. Eight-, six-, and four-line initials are supplied in red or blue. Some paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: Robert Willet (seventeenth century); name on a1r. Edward Elsing (seventeenth century?); inscription on l5v. Acquired by 1738: see Fysher, Catalogus, II 641. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: R 1.4 Med (Fysher); W 1.20 Med. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.8.
A-435 Arnoldus de Villa Nova De somniorum interpretatione, et al.
a1r [Title-page.] a2r Arnoldus de Villa Nova [pseudo-] ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[P]hilosophantes Antiquos seu Indos seu Persas, Egiptios siue Grecos in visionibus somniorum sequentes speciali motiuo diligenter inuenimus studuisse . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1040. a2v [Table of contents.] a3r Arnoldus de Villa Nova [pseudo-;author Guilelmus de Aragona] De somniorum interpretatione. Incipit: ‘[O]portet igitur intelligere, quod a continente sicut dicit philosophus septimo phisicorum multe fiunt immutationes in nobis, continens vero nos est multiplex . . .’ Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Opera (Lyons, 1520), fols 290va–292vb. See Thorndike–Kibre 1040; Paniagua, El maestro Arnau, 72-3. c2v [Firminus de Bellavalle] De mutatione aeris. Incipit: ‘[S]i color luminarium hora eclipsis vel apparens circa luminaria fuerit niger vel tendens aliqualiter ad viridem significat ea quae sunt de natura Saturni . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1444 who ascribe authorship to Firminus de Bellavalle.
[Toulouse: Henricus Mayer, c.1485]. 4°.Probably issued with Pius II, De remedio amoris; see CIBN P-403. a–c8. GW 2530 = 2531;C 660 = 661;BMC VIII 358;Pr 8718;Pere Bohigas, ‘Incunables catalanes atribuibles a Henry Mayer’, Gb Jb (1965), 96-8; CIBN A-582; Sheppard 6756.
Copy Leaves a3, b3 and c3 signed aii, b2 and cii respectively. Binding: Quarter parchment; marbled pastedowns. Size: 205 × 141 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 133 mm. Provenance: Stamp on a1r: two crossed keys(?) with interlacing handles, a cross between. Purchased for 160 Francs from Anatole Claudin, 10 July 1900, no. 98649. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. F3.1.
A-436 Ars Dicendi
.i.2r ‘Tabula sequentis libri.’ b1r ‘Liber nouus Rhetorice vocatus Ars dicendi siue perorandi.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ubsequens opus, quod est in artem dicendi compositum, gratia suffragante diuina septem partibus continetur . . . Eloquendi scientiam, quam Rhetoricam vocant, penitus a modernorum studiis exulare . . .’ See Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. 1249, fol. 1; P. O. Kristeller, Iter italicum, III, alia itinera, I Australia to Germany (Leiden, 1983), 542.
Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 16 Apr. 1484. Folio. .i. a6 b–n8 o10 p–z A–F8 G–K6.8 L8. GW 2563;HC *13906;Goff A-1085;BMC I 225;Pr 1057;BSB-Ink A-758; CIBN A-585; Oates 539; Sack, Freiburg, 303; Sheppard 807; Voulliéme, Köln, 168.
Copy Binding: Contemporary Netherlandish (Korssendonck, near Turnhout) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, four bosses on each cover and two clasps lost; rebacked. On both covers triple fillets form a double frame. In the inner frame, a lozenge-shaped stamp showing Christ in the act of blessing, holding an orb; in the inner rectangle a panel stamp lettered ‘Odium suscitat rixas’, ‘Litem inferre caue’, and ‘Non stant federa metu facta’, with six compartments showing mythical animals: see Weale R 320. According to a letter by P. Verheyden dated 1932, these stamps are only known to occur on the binding of Brussels, Royal Library, MS. 2740 which was written by a Regular Canon from Korssendonck: see J. van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, VI (Brussels, 1906), 199, no. 3925;not in Roger Calcoen, Inventaire des manuscrits scientifiques de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (Brussels, 1965). also Foot, ‘Monasteries and Dragons’, 194 and pl. 1. Size: 290 × 211 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 273 × 197 mm. Occasional early marginal notes. Initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes. Provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 474. Purchased for £0. 7. 0: Books Purchased (1834), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.33.
A-437 Ars Epistolandi
a1r [Verse.] ‘Qui petis absentis animum tibi iungere verbis &pipe; hanc lege que breuibus plurima summa docet. &pipe; Statu quenque suo deponit in ordine et illum &pipe; nomine virtutis qua valet ipsa vocat’; 2 elegiac distichs. a1r [Ars epistolandi.] Incipit: ‘[L]ectitanti mihi Marci Tulii Ciceronis preclaram egregiamque sententiam . . .’
[Paris: Antoine Caillaut, c.1485]. 4°.On a5r one of the model epistles is dated 1484. a b6. GW 2564;Pr 7929;Sheppard 6187.
Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century French(?) marbled pasteboards. Size: 208 × 145 × 5 mm. Size of leaf: 202 × 140 mm. Early interlinear and marginal notes. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes, underlining, and marks. Provenance: Purchased at an anonymous sale (25 Feb. 1886), lot 898, for £0. 7. 0. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 7.37.
A-438 Ars Memorativa [Italian]
a2r [Ars memorativa.] Incipit: ‘Questa sie vna bellissima memoria locale [et] modo d[i] habituare tante cosse quanto l’homo vora . . .’ See Anselm Haverkamp and Renate Lachmann, Gedächtniskunst (1991). On printed editions of mnemonic treatises see Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory (London, 1966, repr. 1984), 105-28; Helga Hajdu, Das mnemotechnische Schrifttum des Mittelalters (Amsterdam, 1967), 100-18.
[Milan: Johannes Antonius de Honate, c.1485]. 4°. a b4 c6. GW 2570;H 1829; R 1267;Pr 5915;CIBN A-586; Sheppard 4927.
Copy Binding: Cloth. Size: 211 × 145 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 127 mm. Provenance: Purchased together with another Ars memorandi for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1845), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.13*.