Decem librorum moralium Aristotelis tres conuersiones : prima Argyropili Byzantij, secunda Leonardi Aretini, tertia vero antiqua per capita et numeros conciliate communi familiari[que] commentario ad Agyropilum adiecto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536.

Higman, Johann, -1500, printer.

Hopyl, Wolfgang, -1522, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Nicomachean ethics. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Queven, Jacobus de (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

210 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Decem librorum moralium Aristotelis tres conversiones

Goff title: Ethica ad Nicomachum

Fingerprint:

s.si roi- muut xivi (C) 1496 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : [Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl], [1496-1497]

Notes:

In three versions translated by Johannes Argyropylus, Leonardus Brunus Aretinus and Robertus Grosseteste. "The third translation (Grosseteste) is sometimes wrongly attributed to Henricus Krosbein (R.A. Gauthier, L'éthique à Nicomaque, Louvain, 1970 p. 143)"--ISTC. Edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples.

Also contains: Aristotle's Magna moralia (translated by Giorgio Valla); Isagogicon moralis disciplinae by Leonardo Bruni; Virtutis quaerimonia by Baptista Mantuanus; and the Ars moralis in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea introductoria by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples.

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Place of printing and publishers' names from colophon on verso of last printed leaf, which reads: Et absoluta sunt impensis, sumptibus, & diligentia Ioannis Higmani et Volgangi Hoplij in hac litterarum formularia arte sociorum: In almo Parhisiensium studio Anno ab incarnatione domini virtutum 1497 12 Aprilis.

"With five colophons, dated: 1) 1497 (Argyropylus translation); 2) 1497 (Magna moralia; Aretinus, Isagogicon); 3) 1496 (Baptista Mantuanus; Faber, Introductio); 4) 1496 (Aretinus translation); 5) 12 April 1497 (Grosseteste translation). For dating this edition see [BM 15th cent.]"--ISTC.

Chancery folio. Leaf a3r: 64 lines, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 201 (206) x 137 (142) mm. (Number of lines per page varies; GW gives: 51-65 lines.) Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. "Marginal diagrams."--BM 15th cent. Title printed within woodcut border: "The title-cut consists of a laureated circle, which encloses the letterpress, a small circle flanked by strapwork below, two putti supporting a shield with the arms of the University of Paris above, the whole enclosed in double framle-line, 181 x 110 mm. It is evidently modelled on Italian work."--BM 15th cent.

Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁶, ²a¹⁰, ³a-d⁸ e⁴ A-D⁸ E⁶.

"There are variant settings of the colophon on q6v and of the heading on ³a1r; see GW."--Walsh.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has the first setting recorded in GW of the colophon on q6v and of the heading on ³a1r.

Leaf size: 282 x 200 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early, partially illegible ms. inscriptions (including two transcriptions of Matthew 24:47) and an early ms. sketch of four acorns(?) on front pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible early ms. Latin purchase and ownership inscription ("Iste est liber Jacobi de queuen emptus vingiti duobus solu[...] [...] [...]") of Jacobus de Queven at head of front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in early full blind-tooled leather over square-edge wooden boards; evidence of furniture(?); 4 raised bands on spine; evidence of spine label.

Penn Libraries copy: boards, front pastedown and some leaves at beginning of volume lightly wormed; spine damaged at head and mended at foot.

Cited in:

Goff A-991

BM 15th cent. VIII, p. 138 (IB.40142)

GW 2359

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3671

Contains:

Aristotle. Magna moralia. Latin

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. Isagogicon moralis disciplinae.

Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516. Virtutis quaerimonia.

Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536. Ars moralis in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea introductoria.

OCLC:

28390378