Problematum Aristotelis sectiones duaequadraginta : Problematum Alexandri Aphrodisiei libri duo / Theodoro Gaza interprete ; ad haec, in utriusque sectiones & problemata copiosissimus index.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Alexander, of Aphrodisias

Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475.

Cratander, Andreas, -1540?, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Problemata physica. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Greek and Roman--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Paullius, D. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered leaves, 92 leaves : illustrations, diagrams ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Problematvm Aristotelis sectiones duaequadraginta

Fingerprint:

37am .126 laio ab&n (3) 1537 (R)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : [Andreas Cratander], MDXXXVII [1537]

Notes:

Problemata not actually written by Aristotle but properly categorized among his dubia. It has also been attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias but this is now considered spurious. Cf. Brill's New Pauly.

Printer's name from VD 16; his device on title leaf and leaf p8v.

Signatures: A-E⁶ a-o⁶ p⁸.

Leaf E6 is blank.

Woodcut initials, diagrams and printer's devices.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on leaf E5v.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1949.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early (17th-century?) vellum; evidence of ties; 3 raised bands on spine; ms. title and imprint ("Aristotelis Problemata Basile[a]e 1537.") at head of spine; pieces of early vellum Latin ms. in a small and highly abbreviated hand (one of which comes from a copy of Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae, part IIa, q. 68, a 2 ad 6) used as binder's waste; 2 paper leaves of early (ca. 1600?) music ms. used as pastedowns: front pastedown, detached from upper board, contains [1] p. of Italian lute tablature for two dances ("Romanes[ca?]" and "Gaglia[rda?]" in different keys) to be played on an instrument in six courses (g'' [above middle c'] d'' a f c G) with one diapason (F). Binding lightly wormed near spine; spine damaged.

Penn Libraies copy has bookplate ("Ex lib. D. Paullii") of an unidentified former owner on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. correction to signature mark on leaf o2r and to foliation on leaf o5r.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves occasionally dampstained; a few wormholes in endpapers and leaves at beginning and end of volume.

Cited in:

VD 16 A3626

Lawn, B. Catalogus Bibliotheca Lawnianae, p. 25

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, A725

Contains:

Problemata Alexandri Aphrodisiei. Latin

OCLC:

60817354