Quest[i]o[n]es venerabilis d[omi]ni Ioannis Versoris super tota[m] vetere[m] arte[m].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Versor, Johannes, -approximately 1485.

Contributor:

Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Aristotle.

Aristotle. De interpretatione--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Praedicabilia--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Porphyry.

Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154. De sex principiis--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Gilbert.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Carmelites (Bad Kreuznach, Germany) (former owner) (inscription)

Schwarz-Kloster Kreuznach (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

lxxv leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Quaestiones venerabilis domini Joannis Versoris super totam veterem artem

Goff title: Quaestiones super totam veterem artem Aristotelis

Fingerprint:

etns ieco o-m. tite (3) 1484 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell], [between 1484 and Mar. 1489]

Notes:

Commentaries on the Praedicabilia of Porphyry, the Predicamenta and the Perihermenias of Aristotle, and De sex principiis of Gilbert de La Porrée.

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from ISTC. BSB-Ink gives imprint date: ca. 1489.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a3r: 53 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 199 (212) x 131 mm.; col. width: 63 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords.

Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶ h⁸ i⁶ k⁸.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Aristotle. Copulata pulcherrima diuersis ex autorib[us] logice in vnu[m] corrogata in vetere[m] arte[m] Aresto[telis]. [Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, 1490] (Goff A-1003) -- Versor, Johannes. Versor super o[mn]es libros noue logice. [Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, between 1484 and Mar. 1489] (Goff V-248) -- Aristotle. Copulata noue logice [secundu]m viam Thomista[rum] cum textu Arestotelis. [Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, 1489] (Goff A-1000).

Leaf size: 274 x 202 mm.

Penn Libraries copy largely without rubrication; ms. underlines, capital strokes, paragraph marks and a few annotations supplied by a reader in red ink on leaf f4; ms. annotations on leaf a4v have ms. underlines, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red ink.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations in brown ink in text; modern ms. bibliographical note in pencil on title leaf; modern ms. bibliographical note and contents list in pencil on inside left board.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1959.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with dated 18th-century ms. ownership inscription ("carmeli crucenancensis ... 1740") and shelf-mark ("clas. 9. Lin. 2. Num. 2.") affixed to title leaf, partially covering an earlier ms. ownership inscription ("Carmeli Xnacensis") followed by a date ("Anno 1655") in another hand, as well as another ownership inscription ("Carmeli Xnacensis") and shelf-marks (all struck through), all of the same institution, the Carmelite Schwarz-Kloster Kreuznach.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind-tooled leather over beveled-edge wooden boards; evidence of 2 leather and metal clasps on right board; 2 metal catchplates on left board; 4 raised bands on spine; illegible ms. shelf-marks(?) in red and dark ink on spine; blind-tooled panel at head of spine.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf k7 torn at head margin; leaves occasionally dampstained at head margin; boards, endpapers and leaves lightly wormed.

Cited in:

Goff V-261

BM 15th cent. I, p. 273 (IB.4768, IB.4769)

GW M50224

BSB-Ink. V-172

ISTC iv00261000

OCLC:

860377874