Problenmata Arestoteles tütsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Schauer, Johann, active 1482-1500, printer.

Zaehnsdorf (Firm), binder.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Problemata Aristotelis ac philosophorum medicorumque complurium. German.

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle--Spurious and doubtful works.

Aristotle.

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Spurious and doubtful works.

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 18 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Problemata Aristotelis deutsch

Goff title: Problemata : (text beginning: Omnes homines)

Fingerprint:

iert ..nn htes ge*W (C) 1493 (R)

Place of Publication:

Getruckt vnd volendet in ... Augspurg : Vo[n] Hanssen Schawren [that is, Johann Schaur], am Samstag nach vnser liebe Frawen Himelfart MCCCC vnd in dem LXXXXIII Jar [17 August 1493]

Language Note:

Translation into German of the text of the Problemata which begins (in Latin): Omnes homines.

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf d4v, which reads: Getruckt vnd volendet in der kayserlichen stat augspurg vo[n] hanssen schawren am samstag nach vnser lieben frawen himelfart .M.cccc. vnd in dem lxxxxviij. jar.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 26 lines; area of text: 127 x 92 mm. One printed initial (leaf a2r); printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Woodcut illustration (111 x 87 mm.) of a teacher and student on t.p. Cf. Schreiber 3357.

Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁴.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 174 x 126 mm.

Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. foliation in pencil at head outer corner of leaves; paper slip with bookseller's typescript description pasted to first blank leaf inserted at beginning of volume.

Penn Libraries copy in paper slip case; bound by Zaehnsdorf in full red-brown morocco; boards, head and foot of spine; cover edges and turn-ins ruled in gold; 5 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; supposed author's name ("Aristoteles"), brief title, and place and year of printing stamped in gold on spine; binder's stamp in gold on front turn-in and trademark in gold on back pastedown; marbled endpapers; a few blank leaves inserted at beginning and end of volume; all edges blue.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1949.

Penn Libraries copy: title leaf mended at inner margin; tail outer corner of leaf c8 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf; several leaves closely cropped at head margin.

Cited in:

Goff A-1038

GW 2463

BN cat. des incun. A-551

ISTC ia01038000

OCLC:

249323352