Tōn en tēde tē biblō periexomenon, onomata kai taxis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515.

Caballus, Franciscus, -1540.

Theophrastus.

Bozérian, le jeune, 1765-1826, binder.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Aristotle. Greek (Manuzio) ; Works. v. 3.

Standardized Title:

Historia animalium

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Cancel slips (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 1497.

Fine bindings.

Penn Provenance:

Biblioteca universitaria di Padova (stamp: Pubblica libreria di Pad.)

Uvarov, A. S. (Alekseǐ Sergeevich), graf, 1828-1884 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

457, that is, 459 leaves, 9 unnumbered leaves ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

En tēde tē biblō periexomenon, onomata kai taxis

Aristotelis Opera Graece

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : In domo Aldi, Mense Ianuario M.IIID. [that is, 29 January 1497]

Language Note:

Text in Greek, with minor portions in Latin.

Contents:

(From title page): Aristotelous peri zōōn historias

peri zōōn moriōn

peri zōōn poreias

peri psychēs

peri aisthēseōs kai aisthētou

peri mnēmēs kai tou mnēmoneuein

peri hypnou kai egrēgorseōs

peri enypniōn

peri tēs kath' hypnon mantikēs

peri zōōn kinēseōs

pero zōōn geneseōs

peri makrobiotētos kai brachybiotētos

peri neotētos kai gēros kai anapnoēs kai zōēs kai thanatou

peri pneumatos

peri chrōmatōn - physiognōmika

peri thaumasiōn akousmatōn

peri Xenophanous kai Zēnōnos kai Gorgiou dogmatōn

peri atomōn grammōn

Theophrastou peri ichthyōn

peri ilingōn

peri kopōn

peri osmōn

peri hidrōtōn.

Notes:

Edited by Aldo Manuzio and Franciscus Caballus.

Chronologically the second of the five volumes of Aristotle issued by Aldo Manuzio, but considered by him to follow the third.

Imprint from Latin and Greek colophons (leaf 2[Chi]7v). The Greek colophon wrongly gives the date as '1447'.

Signatures: 2a[2alpha]-2z[2psi]¹⁰ 2&[2omega]¹⁰ 2[Alpha]-2[Pi]¹⁰ 2[Rho]²(2[Rho]1+'2[Rho]'¹⁰) 2[Sigma]-2[Psi]¹⁰ 2[Chi]⁸ 2[cross]⁸ (2[Rho]2, 2[Chi]8 blank).

Quire 2[Rho] consists of a 10-leaf quire signed '2[Rho]', around which has been wrapped a bifolium signed '2[Rho]', which supplies (on leaf 2[Rho]1r only) text inadvertently omitted. Cf. BM 15th cent.

BM cites variant copy with leaf 2[Beta]2 signed 2[Gamma]2.

Numerous errors in foliation.

Super-chancery folio. 30 lines, plus head-line, to a full page; area of text: 219 (230) x 130 mm. With signatures, foliation and catchwords. Rubrication not called for.

A line of text omitted at the foot of leaf 2[kappa]10v has been printed on a separate slip and pasted in.

Woodcut headpieces and initials.

Includes 19 tracts of Aristotle (some not genuine), and 5 of Theophrastus.

Local Notes:

Bound by Bozerian, le jeune, in full red morocco with gold-tooled spine, borders and turn-ins; 5 raised double bands on spine with title stamped in gold; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; double headbands; pale blue silk marker.

Provenance: bookplate of Graf Alekseĭ Sergeevich Uvarov (1828-1884) on front paste-down endpaper; stamp and shelfmark from the Biblioteca universitaria di Padova ("Pubblica libreria di Pad." "Loce. in pluteo 9. no. 79" (inked over)) on t.p.

The leaves of the last gathering have been separated and reattached at inner margin.

Imperfect: leaf 2[Rho]2 (blank) wanting.

Cited in:

Goff A-959(3)

BM 15th cent. V, p. 555 (IB.24423-25)

GW 2334(3)

Hain 1657*(3)

Proctor 5553

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1497:2

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ia00959000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2643-2643A

OCLC:

82070897