Polilogium : ex Aristoteils octo Politicoru[m] libris &c. operose manipulatu[m] co[n]clusio[n]es ccclxxiiij cu[m] alphabetico indice vtiliter co[n]stringens : pro ciuitatu[m] rectorib[us] indigenis & aduenis affabre imp[re]ssum : cuius materie[rum] series in translata delineabit tabellula.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellendorfer, Virgilius, -1533.

Contributor:

Stoeckel, Wolfgang, 1473-1541, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Politics--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

lxxxviij leaves, 10 unnumbered leaves ; 30 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Lipsi : Imp[re]ssit Wolfgang[us] Monacen[sis] ..., Anno d[omi]nice incarnatio[n]is Millesimoquinge[n]tesimo decimotertio, die vero xvj mensis Aprilis [16 April 1513]

Notes:

Date from colophon, which reads: Polilogiu[m] ex Aristotelis Politico[rum] libris &c. co[n]gestum. ad honore[m] su[per] benedictissime Trinitatis, Paruuloru[mque] profectu[m], co[n]sumatu[m] demu[m] [per] honestum Baccalaureu[m] Uuolffgangu[m] Monacen[sem]. Ciuem oppidi Lipsensiu[m] excussum et effigiatu[m]. Anno d[omi]nice incarnatio[n]is. Millesimoquinge[n]tesimo decimotertio. Die vero. xvj. Mensis Aprilis.

Signatures: A-E⁶ F⁴ G-P⁶ Q⁴ [R]⁶.

Title in red and black.

Woodcut title vignette ("S. Thomas apostolus, S. Thomas confessor") and printer's device (Wolfgang Stoeckel).

Text printed in double columns.

Printed marginalia.

Initial spaces and guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: John XXI. Versoris expositio in su[m]mulas logice Petri Hispani cu[m] textu eiusdem. Impressa Venetijs : Mandato & expensis ... Octauiani Scoti ... per Bonetu[m] Locatellu[m] ..., i496 [qua]rto idus qui[n]tilies [12 July 1496] (Goff J-233).

Bound in full blind-stamped calf over beveled-edge boards; 3 raised bands on spine; blind-stamped spine panels and turn-ins; ms. paper label on spine with authors, titles and dates (1 date struck through); ms. title on head-edge; 2 metal catchplates and remains of 2 clasps; 2 early vellum ms. leaves (texts for mass on 17th Sunday after Pentecost and autumnal Ember Wednesday on first leaf, 22nd and 23rd Sundays after Pentecost on second) in red or brown ink with red capital strokes and red or blue decorated initials with red or blue pen-work extensions used for pastedowns; two vellum finding tabs (1 affixed to title leaf, the other to leaf a2 of preceding work).

Rubrication: initial spaces without rubrication; underlines of section headings supplied in red; some capital strokes and underlines of text and printed marginalia supplied in red; all badly faded.

Penn Libraries copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate affixed to front pastedown; some ms. underlines and a few ms. marginal marks and notes supplied by a reader in brown ink.

Penn Libraries copy: spine mutilated at head and foot; a few wormholes in pastedowns and endpapers; some dampstaining at outer margins of bookblock.

OCLC:

43197885