Textus logices Bricot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bricot, Thomas, -1516.

Contributor:

Le Dru, Pierre, active 1488-1515, printer.

Gerlier, Durand, active 1489-1529, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Organon--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Genre:

Early printed books.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- France -- Paris -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

144 unnumbered leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Incipit: Incipit abbreuiatum text[us] totius logices a magistro Thoma Bricot compositum suie [sic] compilatum ...

Incipit abbreuiatum text[us] totius logices a magistro Thoma Bricot compositum siue compilatum

Goff title: Textus abbreviatus in cursum totius logices Aristotelis

Explicit: Et sic est finis textus abbreuiati totius logices

Fingerprint:

bote uiex deut pono (C) 1503 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : [Pierre Le Dru?]: [For Durand Gerlier], [1503?]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf [a]1r).

Imprint supplied from ISTC. Goff gives imprint date of "[after 1500]"; GW gives "[um 1500]".

Chancery octavo. Leaf [a]3r: 31 lines, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 102 (107) x 57 (78) mm. Printed initials and a few initial spaces, 1 with guide letter (leaf d1r). Printed paragraph marks and a few spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures (the first leaf only of gatherings b-s); without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut publisher's device (73 x 53 mm.) of Durand Gerlier on title leaf: "It is a rebus composed of a curry comb (étrille), a scythe (faux), and a calf (veau), for the address of Gerlier's shop, 'à l'Étrille-Fauveau.' The shield, which also contains the publisher's monogram, g g, is suspended from an oak tree and is supported on either side by a ram. Gerlier's full name is added at the foot of the device. (Meyer 96; Renouard 361; Polain 106; Silvestre 18, Veyrin-Torres, p. 410)"--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 19.

Signatures: [a]⁸ b-s⁸($1).

In GW's transcription of the incipit, the word "siue" is spelled correctly.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 133 x 92 mm.

Rubrication: a few initials, underlines and capital strokes supplied by a reader in red; a few paragraph marks and paragraph mark strokes supplied by a reader in red(?) or blue, now usually much faded; red line-filler supplied by a reader on leaf n6r.

Penn Libraries copy: woodcut publisher's device on title leaf hand-colored by a reader in red(?) and green.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. notes in Latin in brown ink on title leaf, verso of title leaf and leaf s8v, including citations of Porphyry, Boethius, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, and Plato; occasional early ms. underlines and annotations in brown ink in text; occasional early ms. corrections to headline in brown or red ink; elaborate marginal mark in brown ink on leaf s1r.

Penn Libraries copy: modern ms. foliation in pencil on every 10th leaf and on last leaf; modern ms. inscription in pencil ("ll 27") in head outer corner of leaf d3r; modern ms. inscription in pencil ("ll 143") in head outer corner of leaf s8r.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries on 22 June 1920 from Wilfred M. Voynich (Firm) of London.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern vellum; leather spine label (now red?) with author's name ("BRICOT TH") and imprint place ("PARIS") stamped in gold.

Cited in:

Goff B-1201

GW 5533

ISTC ib01201000

OCLC:

249333499