Expositio Appollinaris offredi cremonensis in libros de a[n]i[m]a : Questiones subtilissime eiusdem super eosdem libros de a[n]i[m]a.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Offredus, Apollinaris, active 15th century.

Contributor:

Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer.

Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De anima--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

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

Physical Description:

48, ii7 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (the last leaf blank) : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Incipit of text (leaf A2r): Appollinaris Offredi cremone[n]sis expo[sitio] Luculentissima in libros Aristo[telis]. de a[n]i[m]a feliciter incipit

Goff title: In librum Aristotelis De anima

Fingerprint:

tuat e*&q iesp be*q (3) 1496 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impressi Venetijs : Per Bonetu[m] Locatellu[m] ma[n]dato & expe[n]sis ... Octauiani Scoti ..., i496 quarto Idus Septembris [10 Sept. 1496]

Notes:

Includes the Latin text of the De anima.

Imprint from colophon (leaf 2P5r), which reads: Et sic est finis q[uesti]onis. & [con][seque]n[te]r toti[us] operis. Impressi Venetijs per Bonetu[m] Locatellu[m] ma[n]dato & expe[n]sis nobilis Viri D[omi]ni Octauiani Scoti ciuis modotiensis. i496. quarto idus septembris. Ad laude[m] o[mn]i[pote[n]tis dei. Ame[n].

Median folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 69 lines, plus headline; area of text: 250 (256) x 156 mm.; col. width: 76 mm. Printed marginalia and paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Woodcut initials and diagrams; woodcut printer's device of Ottaviano Scoto (57 x 44 mm.) on leaf 2P5v, "used ... in 1483 and 1484 when he presumably did his own printing. After 1484, he acted only as publisher, and this block was later used in books printed for him by Locatelli ... The device was so closely associated with Scoto [sic] that it appears on his tombstone."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 97. Register on leaf 2P5v.

Signatures: A-F⁸ 2A-2O⁸ 2P⁶ (leaf 2P6 blank).

Woodcuts: capitals; diagrams; publisher's device (leaf ii7 verso).

Incipit of prologue (leaf A1v) reads: Appollinaris Offredi cremone[n]sis sua tempestate Illustris & Philosophi & Medici prefatio in libros Arist[otelis]. de a[n]i[m]a ad Illustrissimu[m] Philippu[m] mariam Mediolani Ducem &c[etera]. feliciter incipit.

Incipit on leaf 2A1r reads: Appollinaris Offredi cremone[n]sis clarissimi ph[ilosoph]i & medici q[uesti]ones in libros Aristo[telis]. de a[n]i[m]a incipiunt feliciter.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 315 x 214 mm.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. notes and underlines in brown ink in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1984.

Penn Libraries copy bound in paper boards.

Penn Libraries copy: most leaves dampstained at fore-edge; leaves A1-B7 each reinforced at fore-edge with a blank leaf; leaves A1-B3 each reinforced at head-edge with a blank leaf; some leaves at beginning of volume wormed.

Cited in:

Goff O-59

BM 15th cent. V, p. 446 (IB.22946)

GW M27716

BN cat. des incun. O-18

BSB-Ink. O-37

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2327

Hain 12004

ISTC io00059000

Contains:

Aristotle. De anima. Latin

OCLC:

19376091