Tōn en tēde tē biblō periechomenōn onomata kai taxis = Eorum quae in hoc libro continentur, nomina & ordo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Theophrastus.

Contributor:

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Aristotle. Greek (Manuzio) ; Works. v. 4.

Standardized Title:

Inquiry into plants

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Fine bindings.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

1 leaf, 1 unnumbered leaf, 226, 116, 42, 12, 121 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (second leaf blank) ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

En tēde tē biblō periechomenōn onomata kai taxis

Eorum quae in hoc libro continentur, nomina & ordo

Aristotelis Opera Graece

Place of Publication:

Excriptum Venetiis : In domo Aldi Manutii, Cale[n]dis Iunii. M.IIID. [that is, 1 June 1497]

Language Note:

Text in Greek, with minor portions in Latin.

Contents:

(from t.p.) Theophrastou per phytōn historias

peri phytōn aitiōn

Aristotelous problēmatōn

Alexandrou aphrodisieōs problēmatōn

Aristotelous mēchanika

ta meta ta physika

Theophrastou ta meta ta physika.

Notes:

Edited, with prefatory letter, by Aldo Manuzio.

Imprint from colophon (leaf 3P[omicron]10r).

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

Signatures: [Maltese cross]² 3a[alpha]-3i[iota]⁸ 3[kappa]⁸ 3l[lambda]-3z[psi]⁸ 3&[omega]⁸ 3[Alpha]-3[Beta]⁸ 3C[Gamma]⁸ 3D[Delta]¹⁰; 3[Alpha]a-3[Mu]m⁸ 3[Nu]n-3[Xi]o¹⁰ [alpha]a-[delta]d⁸ [epsilon]e¹⁰ a[alpha]-b[beta]⁶ 3A[alpha]-3O[xi]⁸ 3P[omicron]¹⁰ ([Maltese cross]2 blank).

In some copies, the first leaf is signed with a Maltese cross; in others, the first leaf is unsigned. Some copies have a conjugate blank leaf bound immediately after the first leaf or wrapped around the first gathering and positioned after leaf 3a[alpha]8; other copies are wanting the blank.

Errors in foliation: 15, 169 (3rd count), 98, 106, 114 (4th count), 103 (7th count) misnumbered 11, 158, 89, 104, 108, 108 respectively.

Super-chancery folio. Area of text: 218 (229) x 130 mm. 30 lines, plus head-line, to a full page. With signatures, foliation and catchwords. Rubrication not called for.

Frequently bound in two vols., divided after leaf 3D[Delta]10.

Woodcut headpieces and initials.

Local Notes:

Library's copy bound in 2 vol.

Leaf size: 307 x 203 mm. (pt. 1); 305 x 193 mm. (pt. 2).

First leaf of library's copy is unsigned; second leaf (blank) wanting.

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

Provenance: bookplate of Graf Alekseĭ Sergeevich Uvarov (1828-1884) on front paste-down endpaper of both vols.; stamp and shelfmark from the Biblioteca universitaria di Padova ("Pubblica libreria di Pad." "Loce. in pluteo 9. no. 80" (inked over)) on t.p.

Cited in:

Hain 1657*(4)

Proctor 5556

Goff A-959(4)

GW 2334(4)

BM 15th cent., V, 556 (IB.24435-37)

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1497:3

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

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2645-2645A

Contains:

Aristotle. Metaphysics.

Mechanica.

Theophrastus. De causis plantarum.

Theophrastus. Metaphysica.

Problemata Aristotelis.

Problemata Alexandri Aphrodisiei.

OCLC:

77878352