[Quaestiones super libros Aristotelis].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Versor, Johannes, -approximately 1485.

Contributor:

Molner, Dietrich, printer.

Welker, Conradus, de Bopardia, printer.

Aristotle.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Aristotle.

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

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

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

Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Bearer impressions (Printing) -- Germany -- Cologne -- 15th century.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Rothoff, Paul (former owner) (inscription)

Monxing(?), Wolfgang (inscription)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, li leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves, xxii leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves, xxvi leaves (leaves [1] page, lii unnumbered pages [1] (3rd count) blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

soi- Etia nule disi (3) 1485 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Theodoricus (Dietrich) Molner, and Conradus Welker, de Bopardia?], [1485?]

Notes:

"In four parts. I-III are undated and IV is dated 29 Nov. 1485. The work consists of: I) De caelo et mundo; II) Liber metheororum; III) De parva naturalia; IV) De generatione et corruptione"--ISTC.

Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC.

Colophon on leaf ²[d]5v reads: Et sic e[st] finis questionu[m] versoris su[per] duos libros arestotelis de generatione sc[ilicet] et corruptio[n]e [secundu]m [pro]cessum burse montis Anno incarnac[i]onis d[omi]nice. M.cccc.lxxxv. In vigilia sancti Andree apostoli [per] Theodoricum [i.e. Dietrich Molner] impressorem Colonie infra sedecim domos.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf A1v: 50 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 178 (196) x 129 mm.; col. width: 59 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. One line of uninked bearer impressions at foot of leaf F6.

Signatures: A-D⁸/⁶ E-F⁸ G¹⁰ [a]⁸ b-c⁸, ²a-b⁸ c⁶ [d]⁶ (leaves A1, G10 and ²a1 blanks).

Leaf A1 unsigned; leaves A2, A3 and A4 signed "A i", "A ij" and "A iij", respectively.

Leaf ²a3 signed "a i"; leaf ²a4 signed "b ij".

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Lambert, von Heerenberg. Copulata [per]diligenti studio correcta circa octo libros phisico[rum] Arestotilis La[m]berti de Monte artiu[m] ac sacre theologie [pro]fessoris iuxta doctrinam excellentissimi doctoris sancti Thome de Aq[ui]no ordinis p[re]dicato[rum]. [Cologne : Theodoricus (Dietrich) Molner, ca. 1485] (Goff M-831)

Leaf size: 283 x 207 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red and blue; paragraph marks supplied in red or blue; underlines and capital strokes supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy: a few early ms. marginal marks in brown ink in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1950.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible 16th-century ms. inscription ("Hunc libru[m] a wolfgango mo[n]xing[o][?] Emj Ego paul[us] rothoff tu[n]c [pro]uisor cur[...] &[?] sal[...] [...]hall. [pro] 3 [...] Anno 24.") recording the purchase of this volume by Paul Rothoff from Wolfgang Monxing(?) in 1524 in brown ink at foot of front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary full blind-tooled parchment(?) over square-edge wooden boards; 4 raised bands on spine; evidence of 2 clasps and catchplates; front pastedown repaired; free endpapers and back pastedown replaced with modern paper leaves.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf B2 torn and mended in fore-edge margin.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: parts 1 and 2 (De caelo et mundo and Liber metheororum; leaves A-D⁸/⁶ E-F⁸ G¹⁰) only.

Cited in:

Goff V-251

BM 15th cent. III, p. 860 (IB.5007)

GW M50226, M50264, M50238

BSB-Ink. V-164

ISTC iv00251000

OCLC:

856735349