Fidi interpretis Aristotelis Egidij Romani heremitarum ordinis in libros de anima expo[sitio].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316.

Contributor:

Canibus, Cristoforus de, active 1484-1500, printer.

Durantis, Hieronymus de, approximately 1450- publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

In Aristotelis De anima commentum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

112 unnumbered leaves (leaves [3] and 112 unnumbered pages) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Fidi interpretis Aristotelis Egidii Romani heremitarum ordinis in libros de anima expositio

Fingerprint:

5.j. n-No atam aiad (C) 1491 (A)

Place of Publication:

Imp[re]ssa ... Papie : P[er] ... Christopho[rum] de Canibus rogatu [et] i[m]pe[n]sa ... Heronimi d[e] dura[n]tibus, a[n]no i49i die 26 me[n]sis Iulij [26 July 1491]

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf a2r.

"Apparently the first edition."--BM 15th cent.

Imprint from colophon on leaf s5v, which reads: Explicit subtillissima expositio libro[rum] de a[n]i[m]a Aristotelis a su[m]mo i[n]terprete Egidio romano ordinis heremita[rum] fr[atr]e edita: ex sua spo[n]te fido exe[m]plari rursusq[ue] reiterata op[er]a dillige[n]tissime castigato excerpta. Imp[re]ssa v[er]o Papie p[er] solerte[m] vi[rum] d. Christopho[rum] de Canibus rogatu [et] i[m]pe[n]sa dillige[n]t[is] viri Heronimi d[e] dura[n]tibus a[n]no i49i. die .26. me[n]sis Iulij ad laude[m] eterni dei eiusq[ue] gloriosissime matris virginis marie.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 60 lines; area of text: 199 x 131 mm.; col. width: 59 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation. Catchwords on verso of first three printed leaves of gatherings a-s.

Signatures: pi² a⁸ b-s⁶. (BM 15th cent. gives signature statement: a⁸(a1+chi1.2) b-s⁶.)

Leaves a1 and s6 are blanks.

Table printed on a separate sheet intended to be inserted before (or after?) blank leaf a1 (cf. BM 15th cent. and GW) with caption title: Tabula i[n]titulationu[m] difficultatu[m] quas mouet egidius romanus in expositione libroru[m] de anima aristotilis in qua hic ordo [ser]uatur vt l[icet] plurima notatu digna tangant[ur]. t[ame]n ea solum annotantur que sub dubitationu[m] titulo ponu[n]t[ur] Cum v[er]o sub hac forma nihil [pro]ponat[ur] vsque ad illa[m] [par]tem textus. que incipit ibi. Principiu[m] aut[em] q[ue]stio[n]is: Ideo tabula ex eo loco initiu[m] sumet.

"The author's dedication ... is addressed 'Iacobo domini Iohannis Gagethani Rothomagensi canonico', the work itself beginning at par. 2 with the words: 'Philosophus in secundo Physicorum ...'"--BM 15th cent.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 273 x 197 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy disbound (loose gatherings housed in a portfolio).

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves a1 and s6 (blanks) wanting.

Cited in:

Goff A-69

BM 15th cent. VII, p. 1009 (IB.31482)

GW 7202

ISTC ia00069000

OCLC:

19373479