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In hoc corpore hec volvmina continentvr in primis Porphirii Ysagoge cum commentario Boecii ; Aristotelis Predicamenta cum eiusdem Boecii co[m]mentariis ; Gilberti Porretani Sex principia & Magni Alberti co[m]mentu[m]. ; Aristotelis De interpretatione ; Posterior editio de Analecticis Aristotelis & interpretatio Linconiensis viri summi que omnia philosophie lumina si fueris studiose lector contemplatus no[n] paruum ex illis fulgorem doctrine referens i[m]mortales nostro artificio gratias habebis. Vale et libenter lege.

Accession number
PML 24552
Object title

In hoc corpore hec volvmina continentvr in primis Porphirii Ysagoge cum commentario Boecii ; Aristotelis Predicamenta cum eiusdem Boecii co[m]mentariis ; Gilberti Porretani Sex principia & Magni Alberti co[m]mentu[m]. ; Aristotelis De interpretatione ; Posterior editio de Analecticis Aristotelis & interpretatio Linconiensis viri summi que omnia philosophie lumina si fueris studiose lector contemplatus no[n] paruum ex illis fulgorem doctrine referens i[m]mortales nostro artificio gratias habebis. Vale et libenter lege.

Published

[Naples] : [Sixtus Riessinger], [approximately 1473-1478]

Description

[224] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Explicit, leaf [F]5v: Finis libror[um] Ar[istotelis] summi ph[ilosoph]i de Analectic[is] posterioribus et interp[re]tationis Linconiensis co[m]mentaror[is] illustris. Ad laudem dei. Parce qui leger[is] si aliqua minus polita invener[is]. nam ita libros ex omni parte depravatos invenimus ut licuerit hinc in de aucupari sententias. Ideo veniam dabis & errori manu[m] imponas. Vale. I.R.M.S.N.
Imprint details supplied from ISTC.
ISTC and GW assign this work the title "Organon" which is traditionally a grouping of 6 treatises by Aristotle on logic - however, only three of these treatises (Categoriae [or Praedicamenta], De interpretatione and Analytica posteriora) are represented here.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 21.2 cm.
Printed in Riessinger's types 4:96R and 5:107G.
Signatures: [1-3⁸ 4⁶ 5⁸; 6¹⁰ 7-10⁸ 11⁶ 12⁸; 13-15⁸ 16-17⁶ 18⁸; 19-28⁸ 29⁶]: 224 leaves, leaf [18]/8 blank.
Title from contents list, leaf [1]/1v.
Binding
Modern half parchment, with decorated paper sides, over paper boards (31 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant title
Title assigned by ISTC : Organon
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, initials added in plain brown ink. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadic throughout but most prevalent in Analytica posteriora.
Provenance
Andrea Galeotti da Pescia, inscriptions, 15th century (leaf [1]/1r); Andrea Farini da Pescia, inscription (leaf [29]/6v); unidentified inscription, abraded, 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/1r); Lucca (Tuscany), Capuchins, inscription: "de Cappuccini di Lucca" (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, May 1927.
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