Auice[n]na De a[n]i[m]alibus / per magistru[m] Michaele[m] Scotu[m] de Arabico in Latinu[m] translatus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Scot, Michael, approximately 1175-approximately 1234.

Gregori, Giovanni de', active 15th century, printer.

Gregori, Gregorio de', active 1480-1528, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Shifāʾ. Latin. Selections

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

54 leaves ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Avicenna De animalibus

De animalibus

Fingerprint:

emuæ sido i-:& tuho (3) 1500 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio], [1500?]

Notes:

Michael Scot's translation into Latin of Avicenna's Arabic summary of Aristotle's Historia animalium, which was part of his al-Shifā'.

Imprint supplied from ISTC.

Chancery folio. Leaf a2v: 55 lines, plus headline; area of text: 226 (234) x 142 mm. Woodcut initials. Spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; catchwords on verso of last leaf in gatherings a, c, d, e and f (catchword on leaf a8v does not match first word on leaf b1r). Register on leaf g6v.

Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 293 x 207 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has paper leaf with bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled sprinkled calf; 4 raised bands on spine; title ("AVICEN DE ANIMALIB") stamped in gold on spine.

Penn Libraries copy: title leaf (a1) mutilated and mended at upper and lower right corners; upper corners of leaves a2-a5 slightly mutilated and mended.

Cited in:

Goff A-1416

BM 15th cent., V, p. 352 (IB.21158)

GW 3112

BSB-Ink. A-968

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2039

Hain *2220

ISTC ia01416000

Related Work:

Aristotle. Historia animalium.

OCLC:

145406642