Simplikiou megalou didaskalou Hypomnēma eis tas deka katēgorias tou Aristotelous.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simplicius, of Cilicia

Contributor:

Kalliergēs, Zacharias, active 1499-1523, printer.

Vlastos, Nikolaos, -1500, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Commentarium in decem Categorias Aristotelis

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Categoriae--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Physical Description:

166 unnumbered leaves ; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Hypomnēma eis tas deka katēgorias tou Aristotelous : (Commentaries on the ten categories of Aristotle)

Fingerprint:

**** *,** *-** **** (C) 1499 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Zacharias Kalliergēs for Nikolaos Vlastos], [26 Oct. 1499]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf [Alpha]1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf [Phi]5v. "The Greek date is rendered incorrectly as 27 Oct. in Goff and [BM 15th cent.]."--ISTC.

Median folio. Leaf [Alpha]2v: 37 lines; area of text: 222 x 133 mm. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Title leaf, including woodcut publisher's device (112 x 60 mm.), printed in red; letter-press section headings and woodcut initials throughout printed in red. Head-piece on leaf [Alpha]2r printed in red; a variant: head-piece printed in gold (cf. ISTC). Woodcut printer's device (59 x 45 mm.) on leaf [Phi]6r; woodcut diagrams. Register on leaf [Phi]6r.

Signatures: [Alpha]¹⁰ [Beta]-[Upsilon]⁸ [Phi]⁶.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: head-piece on leaf [Alpha]2r printed in red.

Leaf size: 325 x 225 mm.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1949.

Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to first blank leaf at beginning of volume.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; 4 raised bands on spine; gold-ruled spine panels; ms. title, edition statement, and place and date of imprint on spine; marbled pastedowns; all edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in upper portion of leaves [Alpha]1-[Tau]3 (mended on leaves [Alpha]1-[Alpha]9 and [Pi]4-[Tau]3); wormhole in fore-edge margin of leaves [Upsilon]7-[Phi]6 (mended on leaves [Upsilon]7-[Phi]1 and [Phi]5-[Phi]6).

Cited in:

Goff S-535

BM 15th cent. V, p. 580 (IB.24737, IB.24738, IB.24739)

BM 15th cent. XII, p. 42 (IB.24740)

GW M42298

BN cat. des incun. S-281

BSB-Ink. S-407

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2747, 2748, 2749

ISTC is00535000

OCLC:

46874582