Commentaria sancti Thome super libros methaphysice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518, printer.

Calcedonius, Alessandro, active 1492-1514, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

In duodecim libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis expositio

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Metaphysics--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

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

Penn Provenance:

Chiesa di S. Pietro (Leonessa, Italy) (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

154 unnumbered leaves ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Commentaria Sancti Thomae super libros Metaphysicae

Goff title: Interpretatio in Metaphysicam Aristotelis

Fingerprint:

ioa* i-cu s.i* gict (C) 1493 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Simon Bevilaqua for Alessandro Calcedonius], [20 Dec. 1493]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf [rum]4r, which reads: Expliciunt preclarissima co[m]mentaria Angelici doctoris Diui Thome Aquinatis sacri ordinis predicatoru[m]. in. xii. libros metaphysice artis cum textu Aristotelis nouiter eme[n]data & impressa impensa Egregii viri d[omi]ni Alexandri Calcedonii Pisaurensis mercatoris: Qui sp[eci]ali gratia obtinuit a Se. Vene. Do. ne cui liceat cuiuscu[mque] gradus vel conditionis: aut i[m]primere aut i[m]primi facere huiuscemodi opus ne[que] Venetiis ne[que] alibi locorum sub ditione Veneti imperii positorum: Nec impressum alibi in dicta ditione ve[n]dere per dece[m] futuros annos: Sub pena i[m]mediate & irremissibilis amissionis omnium & singuloru[m] similiu[m] librorum. Et vlterius librarum. xxv. pro quolibet volumine aliter i[m]presso vel vendito. Cuius quide[m] pene medietas sit ipsius Alexandri. Et reliqua medietas Dominii nostri. Augustino Barbadico Serenissimo Venetiaru[m] principe regnante. Impressum fuit hoc opus Venetiis per Simonem Beuilaqua[m] Papie[n]sem. Anno d[omi]ni. M.CCCC.Lxxxxiii. die. xx. decembris.

Median folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf a2v: 70 lines to a full column, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 236 (245) x 144 (168) mm.; col. width: 68 mm. Initial spaces, some with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. Caption on leaf a2r printed in red. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut diagrams; woodcut publisher's device (the Angel Gabriel in a landscape; 75 x 49 mm.) of Alessandro Calcedonius on leaf [rum]4r. Register on leaf [rum]4r.

Signatures: a-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁴.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 304 x 206 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines, notes, marginal marks and manicules in brown ink on leaves a2r-a3r and i2v-l1r and a few elsewhere in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1956.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 early ms. ownership inscriptions ("S[anc]ti Petri de Leonissa" on title leaf and "S[anc]ti Petri de leonisse" at foot of leaf a2r) of the Chiesa di S. Pietro in Leonessa, Italy, in brown ink.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; author's name ("S. THOMAS") in ms. at head of spine; imprint date ("1493") in ms. at foot of spine.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves dampstained at head margin; some leaves at beginning and end of volume also dampstained at inner margin; pinpoint wormhole in upper portion of leaves; some leaves at beginning of volume lightly wormed.

Cited in:

Goff T-246

GW M46202

BSB-Ink. T-234

ISTC it00246000

Related Work:

Aristotle. Metaphysics.

OCLC:

249375655