Secreta secretorum vel liber de regimi[n]e regu[m] et principu[m] vel d[omi]no[rum] vel epystole Aristotelis ad Alexand[rum] discipulu[m] suu[m].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle.

John, of Wales, -approximately 1285.

Philippus, Tripolitanus, 13th century.

Hoernen, Arnold ter, -1483 or 1484, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Secretum secretorum.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)

Friends of the Library (donor)

Physical Description:

72 unnumbered leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Secreta secretorum

Liber de regimine regum et principum vel dominorum

Epystole Aristotelis ad Alexandrum discipulum suum

Fingerprint:

2221 itta czia scex (C) 1475 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Arnold Ther Hoernen], [1475?]

Contents:

Secreta secretorum vel liber de regimi[n]e regu[m] et principu[m] vel d[omi]no[rum] vel epystole Aristotelis ad Alexand[rum] discipulu[m] suu[m]

Liber de instructione pri[n]cipu[m] [per] quatuor partes s[e]c[un]d[u]m quatuor virtutes cardinales

Breuiloquiu[m] de ph[ilosoph]ia sancto[rum].

Notes:

A compilation of three texts: Secretum secretorum (attributed to Aristotle), De instructione principum (by Johannes Gallensis [i.e. John of Wales]), and Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum (by Johannes Gallensis).

Title from incipit on leaf [a]1r, which reads: Incipit liber qui dicit[ur] secreta secretorum Vel liber de regimi[n]e regu[m] et principu[m] vel d[omi]no[rum] vel epystole aristotelis ad alexand[rum] discipulu[m] suu[m].

Translated by Philippus Tripolitanus. Cf. ISTC.

Imprint and date supplied from ISTC.

"Dated about 1475 by Hillard from the lack of signatures and the justification of the lines. Goff dates about 1472"--ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf [a]2r: 27 lines; area of text: 132 x 77 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]-[i]⁸.

Text of Secreta secretorum ends (leaf [d]1r): Et hec sufficia[n]t [pro] nu[n]c. (Goff transcribes as: Et haec sufficiant pro nunc.)

Caption of table on leaf [d]1r reads: Liber de instructione pri[n]cipu[m] [per] quatuor partes s[e]c[un]d[u]m quatuor virtutes cardinales.

Incipit of Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum (leaf [h]4v) reads: Incipit breuiloquiu[m] de ph[ilosoph]ia sancto[rum].

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 204 x 143 mm.

Rubrication: two 6-line initials supplied in red and blue (leaves [d]2r and [h]4v); several 4-line initials supplied in red and blue (leaves [a]1v, [b]4r, [e]3r, [f]1r, and [g]1r); two 4-line initials ("I") supplied in red in margin (leaves [d]2v and [d]3v); two 3-line initials supplied in red (leaves [d]2r and [h]4v); numerous 2-line initials in red; paragraph marks supplied primarily in red (1 in red and blue at beginning of volume, 1 in blue at beginning of Breviloquium).

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. marginal notes and corrections to text; signature marks supplied in both early ms. in ink and in modern ms. in pencil on tail outer corner of many leaves (some of those in ink have been damaged or lost through cropping of the leaves).

Presented to the Penn Libraries through the Friends of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. Charles W. Burr in 1940.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern drab paper boards.

Penn Libraries copy: last two leaves dampstained in fore-edge margin.

Cited in:

Goff A-1047

BM 15th cent. I, p. 206

GW 2481

BN cat. des incun. A-554

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 35

ISTC ia01047000

Contains:

De instructione principum.

Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum.

OCLC:

231214491