[Organon].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Boethius, -524.

Jacobus, de Venetiis, active 1136-1150.

Petri, Philipo di, active 1472-1482, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Organon. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Clasps (Binding)

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Physical Description:

180 unnumbered leaves (the first and last leaves blanks) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Title from explicit (leaf x5r): Textus logicales Aristotilis

Fingerprint:

usn* atis t.ie qqsi (C) 1481 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis impressi : Per Philipu[m] Venetum ..., Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadrig[n]tesimo octuagesimoprimo uigesima quinta die mensis octobris [25 Oct. 1481]

Contents:

Isagoge Porphyrii ad predicamenta Aristotilis / [tr. Boethius]

Liber predicamentorum / [Aristotle ; tr. Boethius]

Liber sex principiorum / [Gilbert de la Porrée]

Liber peryherminias / [Aristotle ; tr. Boethius]

Liber topicorum / [Aristotle ; tr. Boethius]

Liber elencorum / [Aristotle ; tr. Boethius]

Liber priorum / [Aristotle ; tr. Boethius]

[Analytica posteriora / Aristotle ; tr. Jacobus de Venetiis].

Notes:

Title from Goff.

Imprint from colophon on leaf x5r, which reads: Expliciu[n]t textus logicales Aristotilis Venetiis impressi per Philipu[m] Venetum bona dilige[n]tia correcti. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadrig[n]tesimo octuagesimoprimo uigesima quinta die mensis octobris.

Chancery folio. Leaf a4r: 37 lines; area of text: 208 x 105 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Register on leaf x5r.

Signatures: a-c¹⁰ d-k⁸ l⁶ m⁸ n⁶ o⁸ p¹⁰ P⁶ pp⁴ q¹⁰(-q9,q10) r¹⁰ s-t⁸ u-x⁶.

Leaves a1 and x6 are blanks. Leaf pp1 is unsigned.

On leaf q2r, the "q" of the signature mark is printed upside-down. A variant: "q" of the signature mark printed in the correct orientation. Cf. BSB-Ink exemplar 1 (2 Inc.c.a. 1020).

GW and Bodleian each give signature statement: a-c¹⁰ d-k⁸ l⁶ m⁸ n⁶ o⁸ p¹⁰ P⁶ pp⁶ q⁶ r¹⁰ s-t⁸ u-x⁶. (BSB-Ink gives no signature statement but exemplar 1 (2 Inc.c.a. 1020) has 2 stubs bound in between last leaf of gathering q and first leaf of gathering r.)

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 291 x 200 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: some early paragraph marks, capital strokes, underlines and annotations and a few initials supplied by a reader in red ink.

Penn Libraries copy has some early annotations, underlines, paragraph marks and marginal marks in brown ink in text; early ms. inscriptions on inside left board and on leaf a1r in brown or red ink; 2 ms. notes, 1 in ink ("Duplum") and 1 in pencil ("coll. compl."), on leaf a1v; early ms. manicule in brown ink on leaf b5v; signature marks on leaves pp1r, q1r, and q2r and corrections to signature marks on q4r and q5r supplied in early ms. in brown ink; partially illegible early Latin ms. inscription ("Non du[m] p[...] [...]as a[?] [...] [...]as") on leaf x6r.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1934 through the Friends of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Libraries copy bound in early full blind-tooled parchment over square-edge wooden boards; evidence of 2 leather and metal clasps and 2 catchplates; 3 raised bands on spine; 2 portions of an early parchment leaf from a liturgical music ms., probably a gradual, with texts and music for the feasts of St. John the Baptist (June 24) and Sts. John and Paul, martyrs (June 26), ruled in dark ink (first line below top line) and written in a Gothic bookhand in dark ink with rubrics and initial in red ink and neumes in dark ink, used as binder's waste; printed paper slip ("Printed in Germany") affixed to inside left board.

Penn Libraries copy: bifolia q4.7 and q5.6 bound in out of order in each other's places (i.e. leaves bound in the following order: q5, q4, q7, q6).

Penn Libraries copy: boards, spine and some leaves at beginning and end of volume lightly wormed; leaves q1-x6 stained in fore-edge margin.

Cited in:

Goff A-1013

GW 2391

BSB-Ink. A-694

Bodleian. Cat. of books printed in the 15th cent., A-406

ISTC ia01013000

Contains:

Aristotle. Categoriae. Latin

Aristotle. De interpretatione. Latin

Aristotle. De sophisticis elenchis. Latin

Aristotle. Prior analytics. Latin

Aristotle. Posterior analytics. Latin

Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154. De sex principiis.

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Isagoge. Latin

OCLC:

249323346