[De anima].

Accession number:

PML 34889.1

Author:

Aristotle.

Published:

Impresse Patavi : Joannisphilippi Aureliani et fratrum impensa...Laurnetii Canozii Lendenariensis, Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.ii et. Lxx. Decimo Kalendas Decembris [22 November 1472]

Description:

[90] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1938.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [9]/10r: Nove translationi libroru[m] anime: [et] veteri ab Averoi hispano cordubensi commentate: summi philosophi Aristotelis ex Stragyra grecie oppido Nicomachi medicine artis professoris filii: deo fave[n]te maxi[m]o finis impositus est. Nobilis vicentini Joannisphilippi Aureliani [et] fratrum impensa. Opera vero atq[ue] ingenio Laurentii Canozii Lendenariensis impresse Patavi. Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.ii [et]. Lxx. Decimo Kalendas Decembris.
Printed in Canozi's types 1:91/92G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰]: 90 leaves.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Each paragraph of the text of Aristotle is printed in a new and an old translation, and is followed by the commentary of Averroes on the latter (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 43.5 x 27.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern quarter red goatskin, with red cloth sides, over paper boards (45 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, preserving previous endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary northern Italian/Bologna illuminated foliate initials, alternating red and blue rubrication, running headlines (with triangular puncti), and paragraph marks (C-type, many with fleur-de-lis finials). Commentaries numbered in margin. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), signature and annotations, 2 May 1799 (front endleaf 3 recto), purchased at "Egerton's sale" for £17.17.0, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 191 for £13.0.0; Charles Walker Clark (1871-1933), of San Mateo, CA, collection sold by Celia Tobin (his ex-wife) through Rosenbach and Fleming; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach Co., April 1938.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books