Accession number
PML 1131
Creator
Aristotle.
Object title
Tade enestin en tēde biblō = Haec Aristotelis uolumina in hoc libro impressa continentur.
Published
Venetiis : Apud Aldum, M. IID. Mense iunio [i.e. June 1498]
Description
209, [13], 210-316, [1] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Chronologically the fifth of the five volumes of Aristotle issued by Aldo Manuzio, but considered by him to form the fourth.
Collation: 4[alpha]-4[iota]¹⁰ 4[kappa]⁴; 4[lambda]-4[phi]¹⁰ 4[chi]⁶; 4[psi]¹² 4[omega]¹⁰ 4[Alpha]-4[Beta]¹⁰ 4[Gamma]⁶ 4[Delta]-4[Iota]¹⁰ 4[Kappa]¹²: 330 leaves, leaves 4[kappa]4 and 4[chi]6 blank.
Edited, with prefatory letter, by Aldo Manuzio.
Imprint from colophon (leaf 4[Kappa]12r).
In the preface, "Aldus remarks that he has printed only a fragment of the Oeconomica, having been unable to obtain a text of the part translated by Aretinus ... The Oeconomica (quire 4[psi]) are the only section of the book without foliation, except that the last leaf is apparently numbered 19," see BMC.
Many errors in foliation.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 21.2 cm
Printed in Manutius's types 1:146Gr, 2:114R, and 7:114Gk.
Woodcut headpieces and initials.
Collation: 4[alpha]-4[iota]¹⁰ 4[kappa]⁴; 4[lambda]-4[phi]¹⁰ 4[chi]⁶; 4[psi]¹² 4[omega]¹⁰ 4[Alpha]-4[Beta]¹⁰ 4[Gamma]⁶ 4[Delta]-4[Iota]¹⁰ 4[Kappa]¹²: 330 leaves, leaves 4[kappa]4 and 4[chi]6 blank.
Edited, with prefatory letter, by Aldo Manuzio.
Imprint from colophon (leaf 4[Kappa]12r).
In the preface, "Aldus remarks that he has printed only a fragment of the Oeconomica, having been unable to obtain a text of the part translated by Aretinus ... The Oeconomica (quire 4[psi]) are the only section of the book without foliation, except that the last leaf is apparently numbered 19," see BMC.
Many errors in foliation.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 21.2 cm
Printed in Manutius's types 1:146Gr, 2:114R, and 7:114Gk.
Woodcut headpieces and initials.
Binding
16th-century French (Paris) gold tooled calf over paper boards (31 x 21.8 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Claude de Picques (ca. 1501-1574/78; reliure du roi, 1555-74/78); repaired by Sanford and Clarke (condition report on inside cover of PML 1126 box). Plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands; gilt edges. 14th/15th-century French manuscript waste used as spine reinforcement, partially visible under pastedowns.
Variant title
Aristotelis Opera Graece
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: No rubrication necessary. Annotations: No marginal notations.
Provenance
Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) (cited 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, PML 1126), 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.
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