[De caelo et mundo].

Accession number:

PML 34890

Author:

Aristotle.

Published:

Impresse Patavii : Joannisphilippi Aureliani et fratrum impensa, opera vero ... Laurentii Canozii Lendenariensis, Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.iii et. lxx. iii. nonas Martii [5 March 1473]

Description:

[152] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1938.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [16]/8r: Nove tra[n]slatio[n]i libroru[m] de celo [et] mu[n]do sive de motu [et] veteri ab Averoi Cordube[n]si co[m]me[n]tate: su[m]mi philosophi Ari. ex Stragyra grecie oppido: Nicomachi medicine artis p[ro]fessoris filii: deo fave[n]te maxi[m]o finis impositus e[st]. Nobilis vice[n]tini Joa[n]nisphilippi Aureliani [et] fratru[m] impensa: Opera vero atq[ue] ingenio Laure[n]tii Canozii Le[n]denariensis. Impresse Patavii Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.iii [et]. lxx. iii. nonas Martii.
Printed in Canozi's types 1:91/92G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸]: 152 leaves.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Commentary by Averroes.
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 (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.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books