Text[us] parvoru[m] naturaliu[m] Aristotelis cu[m] co[m]me[n]tario clarissimo s[ecundu]m doctrina[m] Alberti magni Episcopi Ratispone[n]sis : De sensu et sensato. De me[m]oria [et] reminisce[n]tia. De somno [et] vigilia. De lo[n]gitudine [et] breuitate vite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Johannes, de Mechlinia, 15th century.

Amorsfordia, Jacobus de.

Koelhoff, Johann, -1493, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Parva naturalia. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Parva naturalia--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.

Albertus.

Senses and sensation--Early works to 1800.

Senses and sensation.

Memory--Early works to 1800.

Memory.

Dreams--Early works to 1800.

Dreams.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding) -- Germany -- Cologne -- 15th century.

Clasps (Binding) -- Germany -- Cologne -- 15th century.

Annotations (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Heinsius, M. [Martin?] (autograph)

Heinsius, Christophoris (autograph)

Physical Description:

152 unnumbered leaves ; 30 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Johannes Koelhoff the Elder], [27 Oct. 1491]

Notes:

Edited by Jacobus de Amorsfordia, with commentary by Johannes de Mechlinia.

Imprint from colophon on leaf y8.

Signatures: A-F⁸/⁶ G⁶ H-P⁸/⁶ Q⁶ R⁸ S-T⁶ U-Y⁸/⁶.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf A4r: 51 lines of commentary, plus headline; area of text: 202 (206) x 146 mm.; col. width: 71 mm. Intial spaces, some with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords. Woodcut illustration on leaf A1r depicting a seated Albertus Magnus holding a book and lecturing to six students, including Saint Thomas Aquinas; with leafwork on each side.

Local Notes:

Rubrication: some paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlines supplied by a reader in red ink.

Leaf size: 285 x 205 mm.

Copious early ms. annotations in Latin in at least two hands (possibly Christophorus and Martin Heinsius) through the first part (quire P5) in red and black ink with fists, underlines, and markings.

With the autographs of M. (Martin?) Heinsius and Christophorus Heinsius at lower margin of front pastedown.

Binding: contemporary full vellum over wooden boards; blind stamped panels with tooling and arabesques; four raised bands on spine; with bronze clasps. Housed in a case.

Bound with: Aristotle. Textus triu[m] libroru[m] de anima Aristotelis cu[m] co[m]me[n]tario secu[n]dum doctrina[m] venerabilis domini Alberti Magni. [De anima / commentary by Johannes de Mechlinia]. [Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 28 Feb. 1491] (Goff A-970).

Imperfect: Last leaf with colophon (Y8) wanting; leaves A4 and A5 bound in reverse order.

Cited in:

Goff A-1017

BM 15th cent. I, 230 (IB.3629)

GW 2428

Klebs 92.2

BSB-Ink. A-707

Proctor 1085

ISTC UKBYIA01017000-E

OCLC:

61882422