[Metaphysica].

Accession number: 
PML 34892
Author: 
Aristotle.
Published: 
Impresse Patavii : Joannisphilippi Aureliani et fratrum impensa, opera vero ... Laurentii Canozii Lendenariensis, Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.iii et. lxx. iii. Kalendas Februarii [30 January 1473]
Description: 
[198] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1938.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [20]/14r: Nove translationi librorum metaphysice [et] veteri ab Averoi Cordubensi commentate: summi philosophi Ari. ex Stragyra gretie [sic] oppido Nicomachi medicine artis professoris filii: deo favente maximo finis impositus est. Nobilis vicentini Joannisphilippi Aureliani [et] fratrum impensa. Opera vero atq[ue] i[n]genio Laurentii Canozii Lendenarie[n]sis. Impresse Patavii Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.iii [et]. lxx. iii. Kalendas Februarii.
Printed in Canozi's types 1:91/92G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10-16¹⁰ 17⁶ 18-19¹⁰ 20¹⁴]: 198 leaves.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
The first book is in the new translation only and without comment, and so is the concluding section (fol. 197r). In the remainder each paragraph 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), paragraph marks (C-type, many with fleur-de-lis finials) and yellow capital strokes. Commentaries numbered in margin. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations on first few leaves, in an Italian hand.

Provenance: 
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), signature and annotations, 2 May 1799 (PML 34889 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.
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