Paruulus philosophie naturalis : figuralis interpretatio in epitoma philosophie naturalis / in laudatissimo Erffurdiensi gymnasio per Bartholomeu[m] de Usingen liberaliu[m] studiorum interpretem concinnata, non triuialia nec dediscenda doce[n]s veru[m] recondita ac ex vere philosophie sacrario deprompta studiose iuuentuti philosophicis preceptionibus initiari satagenti summe profutura ; annexa est huic opusculo Questio ardua de quiditate quantitatis continue per eundem magistrum quodlibetice determinata ac in ordinem lectoribus aptiorem singulari studio instructa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrus, Dresdensis, approximately 1365-approximately 1421.

Contributor:

Arnoldi, Bartholomaeus, von Usingen, 1465-1532.

Stoeckel, Wolfgang, 1473-1541, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Bearer impressions (Printing) -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 15th century.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Adolfus à Glauburg (former owner) (inscription)

Joannis Adolfus à Glauburg (former owner) (inscription)

Marquardus, Jacobus, à Glauburg (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

Cxxxx leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves (last 2 leaves blanks) : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Parvulus philosophiae naturalis

Text begins: Circa initium Paruuli philosophie naturalis ante textus exordium ...

Fingerprint:

t*is eqde a.i- tono (3) 1499 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Liptzick [Leipzig] : Per Wolfgangum Steckel ..., Anno 1499 in vigilia Sancti Mathie apostoli finitum [23 Feb. 1499]

Notes:

Elementary Aristotelian natural philosophy text by Petrus Gerticz of Dresden, with commentary by Bartholomaeus Arnoldi von Usingen.

Author from BSB-Ink. "Also attributed to the commentator, Bartholomaeus de Usingen (or Arnoldi: cf. E. Kleineidam and A. Kunzelmann, in Scientia Augustiniana: Festschrift A. Zumkeller (Würzburg, 1975), pp. 408ff & 609-629; BSB-Ink)"--ISTC.

Imprint from colophon on leaf 2[con]3v, which reads: Impressum Liptzick per wolfgangum Steckel Baccalarium Erffurdensem et Ciuem Lipsensem. Anno. 1499. In vigilia sancti Mathie apostoli finitum.

Chancery quarto. Leaf 2A3r: 44 lines; area of text: 161 x 97 mm. Initial spaces. Printed paragraph marks. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. Woodcut diagrams on leaves 2H5v and 2T6r; circular woodcut illustration (90 mm.) on leaf 2I2v.

Signatures: 2A⁸ 2B-2C⁶ 2D⁴ 2E-2F⁶ 2G⁴ 2H-2I⁶ 2K⁴ 2L-2O⁶ 2P⁴ 2Q-2R⁶ 2S⁴ 2T-2Z⁶ 2[et]⁶ 2[con]⁶.

Three(?) lines of bearer impressions at foot of title leaf; leaf 2con5 has 4 lines of bearer impressions.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 211 x 151 mm.

Without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Est Adolfi à Glauburg[,] Ioannis Adolfi à Glauburg[,] Iacobi Marquardi à Glauburg") on title leaf; ms. shelf-mark ("Inc. 172.") at head of title leaf; a few early ms. underlines and annotations brown ink in at least 2 hands in text; a few early ms. underlines and annotations in red ink in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1953.

Penn Libraries copy disbound; vellum ms. label ("XX") on spine; 2 early vellum ms. bifolia from a verse commentary on Job used as endpapers(?), each ruled in brown ink with text in brown and rubrics and 2-line initials in red ink.

Penn Libraries copy: front endpaper: ca. 161 x 207 mm., with a few early ms. annotations by a reader in brown ink; rubrics and some text effaced on exterior pages; interior right-hand page has ms. guide-letters in red ink in margin; rubrics of interior left-hand page are quotations from Job 16:18-20; rubrics of interior right-hand page are quotations from Job 17:12, 14, 16, Luke 18:8, and Job 18:1-2.

Penn Libraries copy: back endpaper: ca. 160 x 190 mm., with a few ms. annotations and corrections by readers in black or brown ink; rubrics and some text effaced on exterior pages; interior pages each has ms. guide-letters in red ink in margin; rubrics of interior pages are quotations from Job 41:14-20 (appears to have been innermost bifolium of gathering).

Penn Libraries copy: leaves 2[con]1.2 partially unopened at head edge.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf 2[con]6 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libriaries copy: leaves dampstained at tail margin; portion of lower half of title leaf excised and replaced with a blank leaf; head outer corner of leaf 2T4 torn off.

Cited in:

Goff B-176

GW 3465

BSB-Ink G-201a

ISTC ig00277750

Riley, L. Aristotle texts and commentaries in Univ. of Pennsylvania Libraries, 377

Contains:

[Verse commentary on Job].

OCLC:

249324520