Questiones magistri Iohannis versoris super libros ethicorum Arestotelis et text[us] eiusdem : cum singulari diligentia correcte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Versor, Johannes, -approximately 1485

Contributor:

Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, Cxxii leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Quaestiones Magistri Johannis Versoris super libros ethicorum Aristotelis et textus eiusdem

Goff title: Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum Aristotelis : (cum textu)

Fingerprint:

szde c.s. orri amas (3) 1491 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : Impresse [per] Henricu[m] Quentel ciuem alme ciuitatis Coloniensis, Anno domini Millesimo ccccxci ... [1491]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf x1v, which reads: Expliciunt questiones magistri Iohannis versoris per optime correcte super decem libros Ethico[rum] Arestotilis cu[m] textu eiusde[m]. Impresse [per] Henricu[m] Quentel. Ciuem alme Ciuitatis coloniensis. Anno domini Millesimo ccccxci. &c[etera].

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2v: 62 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 197 (210) x 133 mm.; col. width: 64 mm. (Number of lines to a full column varies throughout text.) Woodcut initials. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords.

Signatures: a⁸ b-v⁶ x⁴ (leaf x4 blank).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Aristotle. Libri politico[rum] Arestotelis. Impresse in alma ciuitate Coloniensi : Per Henricum Quentell, Anno incarnatio[n]is dominice Mccccxcij octauo ydus Martij [8 Mar. 1492] (Goff A-1026) -- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Lucij Annei Senece ad Nerone[m] Cesarem de Clementia Liber primus[-secundus]. [Leipzig : Arnoldus de Colonia, ca. 1493] (not in Goff; ISTC 00376500) -- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Lucij Annei Senece cordube[n]sis maximi Latino[rum] Magistri et institutoris honeste vite ad Lucilliu[m] epistola[rum] liber de viuendi ratione preclarus et auro preciosior. Impresse Liptzk [i.e. Leipzig] : [Per] Arnoldu[m] de Colonia, Anno salutis Millesimoquadringentesimononagesimotertio Sexto Kalendas Iulij [26 June 1493] (Goff S-380).

Leaf size: 280 x 206 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has copious early ms. marginal and interlinear notes and some marks and underlines in brown ink in gatherings a-h; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has printed paper label ("Printed in Germany") on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy given in 1934 through the Friends of the University of Pennsylvania Library.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled pig(?) over square-edge wooden boards; 4 raised bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; 2 leather and metal fore-edge clasps with metal catchplates.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves occasionally dampstained at head edge; boards, pastedowns and some leaves at beginning of volume lightly wormed; small hole in upper portion of leaf o5.

Cited in:

Goff V-255

BM 15th cent. I, p. 276 (IB.4570)

GW M50232

BSB-Ink. V-166

ISTC iv00255000

Contains:

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.

OCLC:

228712226