Eis Organon Aristotelous.

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PML 1126
Author: 
Aristotle.
Published: 
Impressum Venetiis : Aldi Manucii Romani, Calendis novembris. M.CCCC.LXXXXV [1 November 1495].
Description: 
[234] leaves : ill. ; 31 cm (fol.)
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Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899. NNPM
Notes: 

Title from leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon (leaf s6r): "Impressum Venetiis dexteritate Aldi Manucii Romani. Calendis novembris. M.CCCC.LXXXXV."
Collation: A-C⁸ [Delta]⁸ E-K⁸ L-N⁶; a-c⁸ d-e⁶; f-i⁸ [kappa]⁸ l-q⁸ r-s⁶: 234 leaves.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Printed in Manutius's types 1:146Gr and 3:108R.
Edited by Aldus Manutius and Alexander Bondinus. Includes Greek epigrams and prefatory letters by Aldus Manutius and Scipione Forteguerri, and a foreword by Alexander Bondinus.
Manutius issued the entire Opera in five parts, dated: I) Organon, 1 Nov. 1495 (PML 1126/ChL 989); II) Physica, Feb. 1497 (PML 1127/ChL 997, PML 19117/ChL 997 c. 2); III) De animalibus, 29 Jan. 1497 (PML 1128/ChL 995); IV) Theophrastus, De historia plantarum, 1 June 1497 (PML 1129-1130/ChL 998, PML 34896/ChL 998 c. 2, pt. 1 only); V) Ethica ad Nicomachum, June 1498 (PML 1131/ChL 1008).
The first of the volumes of Aristoteles's Opera printed by Aldus Manutius in 1495-1498, but considered by him to form an independent work (cf. Walsh 2630).
The last two words of leaf a7r read either "episēmais apodeiktikais" or (correctly) "apodeiktikais episēmais" (cf. BMC V 553).
Woodcut headpieces and initials; diagram on leaf I1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.1 cm NNPM

Binding: 
16th-century French (Paris) gold-tooled brown calf over paper boards (31.2 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey and Carolyn Horton (condition report on inside cover of PML 1126 box). Tooling is similar to that of Jean Picard and Gomar Estienne, but the exact tools are not those of their shops. Plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands; gilt edges. 14th/15th-century French manuscript waste used as spine reinforcement, partially visible under pastedowns. NNPM
Variant Title: 

Aristotelis Opera Graece.

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Hand decoration: No rubrication necessary. Annotations: No marginal notations. NNPM

Provenance: 
Inscriptions, abraded (front pastedown and endleaf 1 recto); shelfmarks(?), 5: 15: 6 (endleaf 1 recto) and 196 (endleaf 1 verso); Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) (note in Heber catalogue), Scaliger sale, Leyden, 11 March 1609, p. 10; Gerard Meerman (1722-1771) and Johann Meerman (1753-1815), Bibliotheca Meermanniana sale, The Hague, 1824, p. 216, no. 466; Richard Heber (1773-1833), Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Sotheby's, Part I, 10 April 1834, lot 503, purchased by Payne and Foss; Mr. Miller of Lincoln's Inn (maybe William Henry Miller (d. 1848) or John Miller (d. 1841), see Acheson note); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), bibliographical note citing earlier provenance (formerly in box with PML 1126, now in departmental file), purchased from Bohn, entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), bookplate (front pastedown), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899. NNPM
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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