Accession number
PML 20711.1
Creator
Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308.
Object title
Commentaria Doctoris subtilis Ioannis Scoti in .12. li. Metaphisic[a]e Aristotelis / scripta recollecta [et] ordinata ab ipsii discipulo Antonio Andre[a]e: cum duplici textu: Argiropili .s. [et] Boecij: suis locis inserto: Necno[n] Opusculum pr[a]eclarissimum eiusdem Io. Sco. conclusiones CCCLXXVIII. co[m]plecte[n]s: quas ex libris Metaphisic[a]e Ari. edidit.
Published
Venetiis : Per Simonem de Luere expensis d[omini] Andreae Torresani de Asula, 6 May 1503.
Description
211, [1], 13 leaves ; 32 cm. (fol)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from leaf a1r.
Colophon (B9v): Venetiis per Simonem de Luere: expensis. d[omini] Andreae Torresani de Asula. 6. Maii. 1503.
Collation: a-z [et]⁸ [con] [rum]¹⁰; A-B⁸: 226 leaves, leaves [rum]10 and B8 blank.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.1 x 20.3 cm.
Colophon (B9v): Venetiis per Simonem de Luere: expensis. d[omini] Andreae Torresani de Asula. 6. Maii. 1503.
Collation: a-z [et]⁸ [con] [rum]¹⁰; A-B⁸: 226 leaves, leaves [rum]10 and B8 blank.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.1 x 20.3 cm.
Binding
16th-century blind-rolled and -tooled brown calf over wooden boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Garrett Godfrey (d. 1539), Cambridge. Plain paper pastedowns and (modern) fly leaves. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Fore-edge inscription: "II." No considerable marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Thomas Ashley, signature, early 16th century (leaf h8v of Tiene); George Brothers, signatures, early 16th century (leaf h8v of Tiene); purchase inscription: "Iste liber constat mr̄ā [???]," abraded (leaf h8v of Tiene); William Dussyng, inscription, early 16th: "Liber W. Dussyng" (a1r of Duns Scotus); Thomas Har, signature, 16th/17th century (leaf B8v of Duns Scotus); Nicholas Wheeler, donation inscription, 30 Oct. 1601: "Ex dono Nicholai Wheeler Gen. Tertio Caldendas Novembris Anno 1601" (top board label); Ellis, cat. 142 (1912) , no. 28; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Ellis, Sept. 1919.
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