Preclarissimi viri Gualterij Burlei anglici sacre pagine professoris excellentissimi super artem veterem Porphyrij & Aristotelis expositio siue scriptum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?

Contributor:

Campagna, Matthaeus.

Paltasichis, Andreas de, active 1476-1493, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Categoriae.

Aristotle.

Aristotle. De interpretatione.

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Isagoge.

Porphyry.

Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154. De sex principiis.

Gilbert.

Philosophy, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Franciscans (Serra San Quirico, Italy) (inscription)

Biblioteca comunale Serra San Quirico (stamp)

Serra San Quirico (Italy). Biblioteca comunale (stamp)

Paulus Nicolaus(?) (autograph)

Physical Description:

92 unnumbered leaves (the first and last leaves blanks) : illustrations ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Preclarissimi viri Gualterii Burlei anglici sacre pagine professoris excellentissimi super artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis expositio sive scriptum

Super artem veterem Porphyrij et Aristotelis expositio siue scriptum

Super artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis expositio sive scriptum

Goff title: Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis

Fingerprint:

e-os deui emq& si&t (C) 1492 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Andreas de Paltasichis], [21 Jan. 1492/93]

Notes:

Burlaeus's commentary, edited by Matthaeus Campagna, on Aristotle's and Porphyry's works on logic. Included are Latin translations of Porphyry's Isagoge and his introduction to the Praedicamenta (Categoriae) of Aristotle; Aristotle's text of the Categoriae; Gilbert de La Porrée's Liber de sex principiis, a commentary on the last six books of the Categoriae; and Aristotle's Peri Hermeneias (De interpretatione). The commentary immediately follows the relevant portion of the text.

Title from incipit on leaf a2r.

Name of editor and imprint from colophon on leaf n7v, which reads: Explicit scriptu[m] preclarissimi viri Gualterij Burlei Anglici sacre pagine professoris eximiij. in artem veterem Porphyrij & Aristotelis Per sacre theologie professorem fratrem Mattheum ca[m]pagnam. de cherio ordinis minorum ab infinitis fere errorib[us]. vt satis diligentius intuenti videbitur absolutum. [qui] etia[m] magister [pro] vberiori solertium vtilitate studentium q[uaesti]o[n]es eiusdem Burlei super [pro]logo porphyrij cnrauit [sic] adiungere per inuigilantissimum magistrum Andrea[m] Catharensem operis ipsius inpressore[m] in inclita ciuitate Venecia[rum]. Anno. M.cccclxxxxij. die. xxj. Ienuarij.

Signatures: a⁶ aa⁶ b-d⁸ e-m⁶ n⁸ (a1 and n8 blank).

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 70 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 230 (238) x 149 mm.; col. width: 70 mm. Initial spaces, some with guide-letters. Woodcut diagrams. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Register (which does not agree with actual collation) on leaf n7v.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 313 x 207 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines and Latin marginal notes in text; the headline is corrected in ms. when appropriate.

Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries on 2 Oct. 1917 from Voynich.

Penn Libraries copy has 17th-century ownership inscription of the Francsicans in Serra San Quirico, Italy ("Con[ven]tus S. Francisci Serr[a]e S. Quirici") on leaf a2 and a later stamp of the Biblioteca comunale Serra San Quirico with the ms. shelfmark "118" on the front free endpaper; autograph ("Fr Paulus Nics.") of a Brother Paulus Nicolaus[?] at head of leaf a2r.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of another copy of this edition pasted to front free endpaper.

Bound in one-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards; three raised bands on spine; author, title and date ("Aristoteles. Categoriae. 1492") stamped in gold on spine.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves a1 and n8 (blanks) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves dampstained throughout, especially at upper margin; leaf aa4 mended with blank paper at lower margin; wormhole in head margin of leaves a2-d4.

Cited in:

Goff B-1311

BM 15th cent. V, p. 355 (IB. 21948)

GW 5770

IGI 2262

ISTC ib01311000

Contains:

Aristotle. Categoriae. Latin

Aristotle. De interpretatione. Latin

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Isagoge. Latin

Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154. De sex principiis.

OCLC:

77662128