Accession number
PML 21125
Object title
Problemata.
Uniform title
Problemata Aristotelis.
Published
Rome : Johannes Reinhardi, 19 May 1475.
Description
[156] leaves ; 28 x 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Nicol[aus]. Gupalatini. Veneti. Phisici. prefactio in Problemata. Aristo. Ad Sixtum .IIII. Pontifi. maxi. [P]roblemata Aristotelis emendatissima. ut nunc sunt. Latina lingua...
Colophon (leaf [17]/5r): Expliciunt Aristotelis Problemata. Rome impressa per Joha[n]nem Reynhard[em] de Eningen Que Theodorus Gazes. Tessalonicensis. olim e greco in latinu[m] co[n]vertit. Eaq[ue] nuper ultima emendatione Emendavit. Sub Sixto .IIII. Pon. Max. Absoluta sunt. A.M.CCCC.Lxxv.xiiii. calend[s]. Junii. Foeliciter. Laus Deo.
Printed in type 1:105R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11⁶ 12-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16¹⁰ 17⁶]: 156 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [17]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Edited by Nicolaus Gupalatinus. Translated by Theodorus Gaza.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [17]/6 (blanks).
Colophon (leaf [17]/5r): Expliciunt Aristotelis Problemata. Rome impressa per Joha[n]nem Reynhard[em] de Eningen Que Theodorus Gazes. Tessalonicensis. olim e greco in latinu[m] co[n]vertit. Eaq[ue] nuper ultima emendatione Emendavit. Sub Sixto .IIII. Pon. Max. Absoluta sunt. A.M.CCCC.Lxxv.xiiii. calend[s]. Junii. Foeliciter. Laus Deo.
Printed in type 1:105R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11⁶ 12-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16¹⁰ 17⁶]: 156 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [17]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Edited by Nicolaus Gupalatinus. Translated by Theodorus Gaza.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [17]/6 (blanks).
Binding
18th-century(?) Italian parchment over stiff boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Cur exuperantiae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout first half of text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription: S Stephani (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified shelf mark: S IV/52 (front pastedown); round ink stamp, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); several book dealers' pencil inscriptions and price codes (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1920.
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