Aristotelis liber, qui decimus Historiarum inscribitur / nunc primum Latitinus factus à Iulio Caesare Scaligero viro clarissimo, & commentariis illustratus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Scaligero, Giulio Cesare, 1484-1558

Harsy, Antoine de, active 1572-1607, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Historia animalium. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Historia animalium.

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Penn Provenance:

Trotter, Henry, of Mortoun-Hall (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Trotter family (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Trotter, John, 1667-1718 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

144 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Liber, qui decimus Historiarum inscribitur

Fingerprint:

dede I.L.t:u- ti** (3) 1584 (R)

Place of Publication:

Lugduni : Apud Antonium de Harsy, MDLXXXIV [1584]

Notes:

Pages 12-13 repeated in pagination.

Edited by Sylvius Caesar Scaliger with his dedicatory letter dated 25 March 1584.

Signatures: A-I⁸.

Woodcuts: device on title page; initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 (GrC Ar466 Ef12 1584) has armorial bookplate (bearing the motto "In promptu") of the Trotter family of Mortonhall. The Trotter family library established in the 17th c. was eventually sold in 1947 under the title: Valuable books from the library of Captain Henry Trotter, Mortonhall, Edinburgh.

Culture Class Collection copy 1(GrC Ar466 Ef12 1584) with inscription, probably written by John Trotter (1667-1718) : "Bought at an auction in [??] in Jan. 1712"

Culture Class Collection copy 2 (GrC T3438 T584s) bound with Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri Animaduersiones in Historias Theophrasti. Lugduni : Apud Ioannam Iacobi Iuntae F., MDLXXXIIII [1584

Culture Class Collection copy 2 (GrC T3438 T584s) has bookplate of R.G. Adams with motto "quaerite et inuenietis" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 (GrC T3438 T584s) has framed oval stamp ("SPBCN") possibly from an ecclesiastical library in Naples.

Cited in:

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, I, p. 331

Index Aureliensis 108.665

Riley, L. Aristotle texts and commentaries in Univ. of Pennsylvania Libraries, 118A

Adams A1844

Baudrier, H.L. Bib. lyonnaise (suppl.) I, p. 35

Schwab, M. Bib. d'Aristote, no. 1783

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, A598

OCLC:

43182527