[Meteorologica].

Accession number:

PML 34889.2

Author:

Aristotle.

Published:

Impresse Patavii : Joannisphilippi Aureliani et fratrum impensa, opera vero ... Laurentii Canozii Lendenariensis, Anno Christi optimi. M.CCCC. quarto. et. lxx. octavo Kalendas Julii [24 June 1474]

Description:

[34] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1938.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [4]/3v: Nove tra[n]slatio[n]i libro[rum] metheoro[rum] [et] veteri s[ecundum] q[ua]rtu[m] lib[rum] solu[m] ab Averoi cordubensi [com]me[n]tate: su[m]mi philosophi Aristotel[is] ex Stragyra grecie oppido: Nicomachi medice artis p[ro]fessoris filii: deo opti[m]o maxi[m]oq[ue] fave[n]te sinis i[m]po[s]itus e[st]. Nobil[is] vice[n]tini Joa[n]nisphilippi Aureliani [et] frat[rum] i[m]pensa. Opera vero atq[ue] i[n]genio Laure[n]tii Canozii Lendenarie[n]sis. Impresse Patavii Anno Christi optimi. M.CCCC.q[ua]rto.[et]. lxx.octavo Kale[n]das Julii.
Printed in Canozi's types 1:91/92G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁴]: 34 leaves, leaf [4]/4 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
With commentary by Averroes in book IV.
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

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Department:

Printed Books