[Oeconomica / commentary and translation by Leonardo Bruni].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.

Butzbach, Paulus, active 1472-1481, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Oeconomica. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Economics--Early works to 1800.

Economics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered leaves ; 22 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Incipit of preface: Leonardi Aretini uiri clarissimi praefatio in libro oeconomicorum Aristothelis ad Cosmu[m] medicum Flore[n]tinum Foeliciter incipit

Incipit of text: Leonardi Aretini uiri clarissimi Co[m]mentariu[m] in lib[rum] primu[m] oeconomico[rum] Aristothelis ad cosmu[m] suu[m] foeliciter incipit

Fingerprint:

t.am ites neis nefe (C) 1471 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Verona] : [Paulus Butzbach and Georgius de Augusta], [about 1471-72]

Notes:

Frequently attributed to Aristotle, but probably the work of some later writer of the Peripatetic school.

Title and imprint supplied from ISTC. "Also recorded as [Venice: Christophorus Valdarfer, about 1470]"--ISTC.

Royal octavo. Leaf [a]1v: 23 lines; area of text: 127 x 75 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]¹⁰ [b]-[c]⁸ [d]¹⁰.

Explicit on leaf [b]2v reads: Leonardi Aretini uiri clarissimi. In libro oeconomico[rum] Aristothelis. ad Cosmu[m] medicum florentinu[m] translatio. Foeliciter explicit.

Incipit on leaf [b]3r reads: Leonardi. Aretini. uiri clarissimi Co[m]mentariu[m] In lib[rum] primu[m] oeconomico[rum] Aristothelis. ad Cosmu[m] suu[m] Foeliciter incipit.

Explicit on leaf [d]10v reads: Leonardi Aretini uiri clarissimi In libros oeconomicorum Aristothelis ad cosmu[m] medicum florentinum commentarium Foeliciter explicit.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 208 x 139 mm.

Rubrication: initials supplied in red; paragraph marks supplied in red and blue.

Penn Libraries copy has a few visible ms. marginal marks, corrections to text and annotations; evidence of more copious marginal annotation, now faded or effaced; ms. guide letter on leaf [a]2r; occasional modern ms. foliation in pencil (some folio numbers incorrect).

Penn Libraries copy bound in one quarter blind-ruled red morocco over tan cloth; 2 raised bands on spine; title and supposed author's name (Aristotle) stamped in gold on spine; binder's stamp ("Kurt Gaebel & Sons Holland, PA") on back free endpaper; all edges gauffered and gilt.

Cited in:

Goff A-1009

BM 15th cent. V, p. 185

GW 2435

ISTC ia01009000

OCLC:

249323330