Aristoteles Stagirite Metheororum liber primus[-quartus] : cum co[m]mentarijs Gaietani de Tienis, nuper summa cum diligentia emendatis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Tiene, Gaetano, 1387-approximately 1462

Franciscus, de Marchia, active 14th century.

Petrus Angelus, de Monte Ulmi

Gregori, Giovanni de', active 15th century, printer.

Gregori, Gregorio de', active 1480-1528, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Meteorologica. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Meteorology--Early works to 1800.

Meteorology.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Physical Description:

78 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Metheororum liber primus-quartus

Fingerprint:

i-e- noio s.lu tena (C) 1491 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetijs i[m]pressa : Cura ... Ioannis de Forliuio & Gregorij fratrum, Anno d[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxj die xxij Mensis octobris [22 Oct. 1491]

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf a2r.

Imprint from colophon on leaf m7v, which reads: Expliciunt Co[m]mentaria super quattuor libros metheororu[m] Aristotelis cu[m] textu eiusdem: & duobus tractatibus de reactione: et inte[n]sio[n]e & remissio[n]e formaru[m] d[omi]ni Gaeta[n]i de tienis vincentini arctium & medicine doctoris clarissimi: su[m]ma cu[m] diligentia castigata & emendata per sacre theologie bachalarios fratrem Franciscum de macerata & fratrem Petrum angelu[m] de monte vlmi ordinis minoru[m]. Venetijs i[m]pressa cura solertissimo[rum] viroru[m] Ioannis for forliuio [et] Gregorij fratrum Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxj. die xxij. Mensis octobris.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a5r: 67 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 227 (239) x 150 mm.; col. width: 70 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Captions on leaf a2r printed in red. Register on leaf m7v. Woodcut diagrams; large woodcut printer's device (142 x 73 mm.) of Giovanni and Gregorio de' Gregori on leaf m8r: "The Gregori brothers chose as their device a large double cross with a St. Andrew's cross on the staff, flanked by the initials of their forenames, Z (for Zovanni, i.e. Giovanni) and G (for Gregorio). The St. Andrew's cross is an emblem of fertility and good luck."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 84.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-l⁶ m⁸ (leaf a1 blank).

Caption on leaf m1r reads: Tractatus perutilis de reactione editus per d[omi]n[u]m Gaetanu[m] de thienis artiu[m] & medici[n]e doctore[m] [per]itissimu[m].

Incipit on leaf m4v reads: Incipit tractatus eiusdem d[omi]ni Gaietani de tienis De intentio[n]e & remissione formarum.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 315 x 218 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper; ms. inscription ("No. 45") in brown ink on back pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1984.

Penn Libraries copy bound in paper boards.

Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in tail inner corner of leaves a7-m5; wormhole in tail margin of leaves i4-m8; a few wormholes in upper portion of leaves e1-m8; some leaves at end of volume lightly wormed.

Cited in:

Goff A-1008

BM 15th cent. V, p. 342 (IB.21020)

GW 2421

BN cat. des incun. A-525

BSB-Ink. A-696

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1980

Hain-Copinger 1697

ISTC ia01008000

OCLC:

19376071