Questiones magistri Ioha[n]is Versoris super Metaphisicam 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. Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Rothoff, Paul (former owner) (inscription)

Monxing(?), Wolfgang (inscription)

Physical Description:

lxxix leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Quaestiones magistri Johannis Versoris super Metaphysicam Aristotelis

Goff title: Quaestiones super Metaphysicam Aristotelis

Fingerprint:

rui- isre erui thta (3) 1486

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Successor of Arnold Ther Hoernen (Theodoricus (i.e. Diederich Molner), or Conradus Welker, de Bopardia?)], [1486?]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Place of printing from colophon on leaf l6r, which reads: Questiones venerabilis magistri Ioha[n]nis versoris sacre theologie [pro]fessoris clarissimi. circa duodecim libros metaphysice Arestotilis. iuxta primu[m] originale [per]uigili studio correcte et nuper Colonie impresse. finiunt feliciter.

Printer's names and date of printing from ISTC.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 50 lines, plus headline; area of text: 179 (196) x 128 mm.; col. width: 58 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸ i⁶ k-l⁸ (leaf l8 blank)

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, red, or blue; paragraph marks supplied in red or blue; underlines and capital strokes supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy: early ms. marginal calculation in brown ink on leaf l8v.

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 l8 reinforced on recto with a blank leaf; wormholes in head margin of leaves l6-l8 and tail margin of leaves l4-l8; wormhole in fore-edge margin of leaves i1-l8.

Cited in:

Goff V-257

BM 15th cent. I, p. 297 (IB.5017)

GW M50257

BSB-Ink. V-175

ISTC iv00257000

Related Work:

Aristotle. Metaphysics.

OCLC:

856735359