Physica / commentary by Averroës.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Averroës, 1126-1198.

William, of Moerbeke, approximately 1215-1286.

Scot, Michael, approximately 1175-approximately 1234.

Canozi, Lorenzo, 1425-1477, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Physics. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Aristotle. Physics--Latin--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Physical Description:

238 unnumbered leaves ; 47 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

iaia qrle nsdu coQu (C) 1472 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Padua] : [Lorenzo Canozi], [1472-1475?]

Notes:

"Includes two Latin versions of Aristotle's text, one new and one old, with the commentary of Averroes on the latter."--Walsh. The translations of Aristotle are by William of Moerbeke and Michael Scot; that of Averroes by Michael Scot.

Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC.

Super-royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a1r: 63 lines to a full column; area of text: 290 x 169 mm.; col. width: 74 mm. (Number of lines to a full column varies; GW gives 50-63.) Initial spaces. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]-[k]¹⁰ [l]¹² [m]⁴ [n]-[z]¹⁰ [A]¹⁰ [B]².

Explicit on leaf [B]2r reads: Noue translatione de physico auditu: & ueteri ab Aueroi cordubensi commentate. Summi Aristotelis philosophi extragyra grecie oppido Nicomachi medicine artis professoris filii: deo faue[n]te finis impositus est.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 443 x 285 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: illuminated and colored 8-line initial I with illuminated and colored floriate extensions on leaf [a]1r; illuminated and colored 8-line initial Q on leaf [a]2r; other initials in blue; paragraph marks in blue or red.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations, underlines, manicules and marginal marks in brown ink in text; ms. signature marks(?) in brown ink at foot of some leaves.

Penn Libraries copy bound in early one-quarter leather (mended) over square-edge wooden boards (damaged; portion of right board excised and replaced by another piece of wood); evidence of two clasps or catchplates on left board; 5 raised bands on spine.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at tail margin with damage to ms. signature marks(?); a few pinpoint wormholes in leaves at beginning of volume; boards lightly wormed.

Cited in:

Goff A-1021

GW 2443

BN cat. des incun. A-527

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2790

ISTC ia01021000

OCLC:

187642692