Accession number
PML 709
Creator
Andreae, Antonius, -approximately 1320.
Object title
Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis.
Published
[London] : per me Johannem Lettou ad expensas Wilhelmi Wilcock impressis, .M.CCCC.lxxx [1480].
Description
[106] leaves ; 30.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf N6r: Excellentissimi sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris Anthonii Andree ordinis fratru[m] minoru[m[ super duodecim libros Methaphisice questionibus per uenerabilem uiru[m] magistru[m] Thoma[m] penketh ordiuis [sic] fratru[m] Augustinensiu[m] emendatis finis impositus est. per me Iohannem lettou ad expensas Wilhelmi Wilcock impressis. Anno [christ]i .M.CCCC.lxxx.
Printed in Lettou's type 1:83G.
Signatures: A¹⁰ B-F⁸ G-H⁶ I-L⁸ M-N⁶; [O⁸]: 106 leaves, leaf A1 blank. Leaf A2 signed A1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Thomas Penket.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.7 x 21 cm, with several deckel edges.
Imprint from colophon, leaf N6r: Excellentissimi sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris Anthonii Andree ordinis fratru[m] minoru[m[ super duodecim libros Methaphisice questionibus per uenerabilem uiru[m] magistru[m] Thoma[m] penketh ordiuis [sic] fratru[m] Augustinensiu[m] emendatis finis impositus est. per me Iohannem lettou ad expensas Wilhelmi Wilcock impressis. Anno [christ]i .M.CCCC.lxxx.
Printed in Lettou's type 1:83G.
Signatures: A¹⁰ B-F⁸ G-H⁶ I-L⁸ M-N⁶; [O⁸]: 106 leaves, leaf A1 blank. Leaf A2 signed A1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Thomas Penket.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.7 x 21 cm, with several deckel edges.
Binding
19th-century gilt- and blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (30.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son for Bennett. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Primary initial in grey wash, remainder unrealized. Annotations: Manuscript headlines identifying question division of text. Contemporary marginal notations and text corrections sporadically through first-half of text, in different hand than headlines. Contemporary inscriptions: "Non rete accipitua tenditur qui male faciunt a Bacho, [??] qui male agit [??] vero [???] qui nihil mali facit tenditur," derived from Terence, Phormio, II.2, and in French, "da ille doner et sur la sanegard de forte ile shimen viande" with a drawing of an animal and the blurred English inscription: "He is a k[????] ..." (leaf B5v).
Provenance
Thomas Bib, contemporary signature and pentrials (leaf A8v); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), his sale, Sotheby's, part I, 25 June 1897, lot 89 for £231.0.0 to Pickering & Chatto for: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 261, 28/6/97 and price code: osy/ww/-, Binding: r/wr/e (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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