Arma[n]dus De declaratione difficiliu[m] terminoru[m] tam theologie q[uam] philosophie ac logice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armand, de Belvézer, active 1326-1334.

Contributor:

Belhomme, Marcel, former owner.

Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.

Early Printed Binding Waste Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Printed waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, CLXXXIIII, that is, 174 leaves, 17 unnumbered leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Armandus De declaratione difficilium terminorum tam theologiae quam philosophiae ac logicae

De declaratione difficilium terminorum tam theologie quam philosophie ac logice

Goff title: De delcaratione difficilium terminorum tam theologiae quam philsophiae ac logicae

Fingerprint:

a-u- u*az IIn- brmo (3) 1491 (R)

Place of Publication:

In insigni vrbe Basileorum : [Michael Wenssler], Anno salutiferi virginalis partus MCCCCXCI prima Marcij [1 Mar. 1491]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1).

Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf y7v, which reads: Doctissimi atq[ue] Eximij theologie professoris: necno[n] Sacri palacij preclarissimi doctoris. fratris Armandi de Bellovisu. Diui ordinis predicatoru[m]. Compendiu[m] difficiliu[m] terminoru[m] Theologie: Philosophie atq[ue] Logice declaratiuum Explicit foeliciter Anno salutiferi virginalis partus. M.cccc.xci. Prima Marcij. in insigni vrbe Basileorum.

Printer's name supplied from ISTC.

Chancery octavo. Leaf a3r: 34 lines, plus headline; area of text: 109 (117) x 70 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords.

Signatures: a-y⁸ chi-2chi⁸.

Leaves y8 and 2chi8 are blanks.

Numerous errors in foliation. Cf. Walsh.

Many copies of this edition contain a mixture of sheets from Goff A-1055 and Goff A-1056. The latter is without foliation throughout; its colophon reads: "Impensis Michaelis wensler In vrbe Basileorum diligentissime elaboratu[m] finitu[m] est foeliciter Anno christianissimi partus. post Millesimu[m] quaterq[ue] centensimum nonagesimo primo Kalendis Aprilibus." Also in Goff A-1056, the second line of leaf chi1 ends: "o[l]im capi".

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Inc A-1055 imperfect: leaf 2chi8 (blank) wanting. Gathering e (without foliation) is from Goff A-1056. Leaf size: 136 x 88 mm. Rubrication: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red; capital strokes supplied in yellow. Modern ms. bibliographic notes in pencil on front free endpaper; early ms. inscription ("Jesus Maria Joseph"), pen tests and sketch on front free endpaper; ms. inscription in Latin on leaf y8v; a few early ms. marginal notes in text. Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1959. Two Latin ms. ownership inscriptions of Brother Marcel Belhomme of a convent in Séez: 1 on title leaf dated 1613 and 1 on leaf 2chi7v dated 1608 above Latin verses in the same hand. Binding: full vellum with boards double-ruled in blind; ms. title and date on spine; portions of 2 early printed Latin leaves used as pastedowns (front pastedown contains text which invokes St. Catherine of Alexandria; back pastedown contains part of Ps. 49 and ms. inscription on folded verso[?]); portion of early vellum Latin ms. in 2 columns in black ink (with underlines and manicule in brown ink in another hand) used as binder's waste; evidence of ties. Lower portion of title leaf excised and the remainder pasted at inner margin to a blank leaf; the blank leaf has several early ms. notes and 2 ms. sketches of faces on recto and early ms. inscription on verso. Leaves cropped at all margins with occasional damage to rubricated initials and ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff A-1055

BM 14th cent. III, p. 733

GW 2501

BSB-Ink. A-730

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1136, 1137

ISTC ia01055000

OCLC:

37114599