Tractatus logice fratris Guillermi Ockan diuisus in tres [par]tes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349.

Contributor:

Augustinus, de Ratisbona

Higman, Johann, -1500, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Summa logicae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

CXXIII leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves ; 30 cm. (folio)

Other Title:

Tractatus logicae fratris Guillermi Ockan divisus in tres partes

Fingerprint:

rier b*me ciia alre (C) 1488 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : [Johannes Higman], [1488]

Notes:

Edited by Augustinus de Ratisbona. Cf. ISTC.

Title and place and date of printing from explicit on leaf q4r, which reads: Explicit tractatus logice fratris guillermi ockan diuisus in tres [par]tes et vnaque[que] pars [per] capitula distincta est. Impressu[m] est hoc opus Pari. i[n] vico clauso brunelli. M.cccolxxxviii.

Printer's name from ISTC.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 51 lines, plus headline; area of text: 203 x 135 mm.; col. width: 65 mm. "The line-endings are often irregular but tend to be more uniform towards the end of the book. Pages c8a, o9b, p1a are several lines short, and at the end of k5b two lines have been added after printing off."--BM 15th cent. Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation (the latter on the versos of leaves); without catchwords.

Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁶.

The text is printed in Roman type (Haebler 1, British Museum 80R); leaf b1r, line 1 reads: "aut plures res v[niversa]les et sic erit processus in in-". A variant: conjugate leaves b1 and b8 printed in Gothic type (Haebler 8, British Museum 82G); leaf b1r, line 1 reads: "aut plures res v[niversa]les: et sic erit [pro]cessus in infi". Cf. GW; L. Riley, "A variant edition of Ockham's 'Summa logicae,'" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 54 (1960): 176.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is variant in which conjugate leaves b1 and b8 are printed in Gothic type; leaf b1r, line 1 reads: "aut plures res v[niversa]les: et sic erit [pro]cessus in infi".

Leaf size: 284 x 204 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines, marginal notes and marks (in more than one hand?) in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern parchment with 2 leather fore-edge ties.

Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in inner margin of leaves h2-q6; wormhole in upper portion of leaves i1-q6 with occasional minor damage to text; leaves of gatherings o-q lightly wormed with occasional minor damage to text; portion of head margin of leave e2 torn off.

Cited in:

Goff O-11

BM 15th cent. VIII, p. 131 (IB.40104)

BSB-Ink. G-507

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3663

ISTC io00011000

OCLC:

249358885