Questiones subtilissime Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis : Eiusdem de primo rerum principio tractatus : Atq[ue] theoremata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308.

Contributor:

O'Fihely, Maurice, -1513.

Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer.

Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Metaphysics.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Simpson, A. C. (autograph)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, 2-131 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (the last leaf blank) ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Quaestiones in Aristotelis Metaphysicam

Fingerprint:

veme s*s* c.s. tues (3) 1497 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impressa Venetijs : Mandato & expe[n]sis ... Octauiani Scoti : Per Bonteum Locatellu[m] ..., i497 duodecimo Kalendas Decembris [20 Nov. 1497]

Notes:

Contains John Duns Scotus's Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, De primo principio, and Theoremata (the last edited by Maurice O'Fihely), as well as Maurice O'Fihely's Epitomata sive castigationes. "More details about 'Theoremata' see Theologische Realenzyklopaedie, 9, Berlin, New York, 1982, p. 219"--ISTC.

Title from title leaf (leaf A1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf R3r, which reads: Expliciunt epithomata seu castigationes preclarissimi Doctoris Magistri Mauritij Hibernici Ordinis Minoru[m] in theoremata Doctoris subtilissimi Ioa[n]nis Duns Scoti eiusdem ordinis. Ac etia[m] in tractatu[m] de [pri]mo principio eiusdem. Impressa Venetijs mandato & expe[n]sis Nobilis viri Domini Octauiani Scoti Ciuis Modoetiensis. Per Bonteum Locatellu[m] Bergome[n]sem. i497. duodecimo Kalendas Decembris.

Median folio, printed in double columns. Leaf A3r: 66 lines to a full column, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 240 (247) x 160 (170) mm.; col. width: 72 mm. Woodcut initials. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Woodcut publisher's device (89 x 57 mm.) of Ottaviano Scotto on leaf R3v. Register on leaf R3v.

Signatures: A-I⁸ K¹⁰ L-P⁸ Q⁶ R⁴ (leaf R4 blank).

Errors in foliation: leaves 12 and 126 numbered 16 and 125, respectively.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Duns Scotus, John. Commentaria doctoris subtilis Ioannis Scoti in 12 li. Metaphisic[a]e Aristotelis. Venetijs : Per Simonem de Luere : Iussu ... Andree Torresani de Asula, 6 Maij 1503 [6 May 1503].

Leaf size: 316 x 210 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: some woodcut initials hand-colored in red ink.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines, marginal notes and marks in brown and red-brown ink in text; a few paragraph marks supplied in red brown ink in headline; a few paragraph mark strokes in red-brown ink in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1962.

Penn Libraries copy has label with autograph ("A:C: Simpson") of A.C. Simpson in brown ink on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in quarter red morocco over red-brown cloth; 5 raised, blind-tooled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; "ARISTOTELES" and "METAPHYSICA" stamped in gold on spine; imprint date of first work in volume ("1503") stamped in gold at foot of spine; largely illegible ms. title on fore-edge; all edges stippled red; remains of parchment finding tab affixed to fore-edge of leaves L1 and L8.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf R4 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves of gatherings K-R lightly wormed with minor damage to text; occasional wormholes in other leaves with minor damage to text.

Cited in:

Goff D-372

BM 15th cent. V, p. 448 (IB.22969)

GW 9065

BN cat. des incun. D-269

BSB-Ink. D-298

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2339, 2340

ISTC id00372000

Contains:

Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308. De primo principio.

OCLC:

31488658