Quae hoc in volumine tractantur : Bessarionis cardinalis Niceni, & patriarchae Consta[n]tinopolitani In calumniatore[m] Platonis libri quatuor ... ; eiusdem Correctio librorum Platonis de legibus Georgio Trapezuntio interprete ... Eiusdem De natura & arte adversus eundem Trapezuntiu[m] tractatus admodum [que] acutus, ac doctus. Eiusdem Metaphysicorum Aristotelis XIIII librorum tralatio. Theophrasti Metaphysicorum lib. I. Index eorum omnium, quae singulis libris pertractantur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403-1472.

Contributor:

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515.

Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

In calumniatorem Platonis libri quatuor

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486--Early works to 1800.

George.

Plato. Laws--Early works to 1800.

Plato.

George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486.

Physical Description:

2 parts (8 unnumbered leaves,116; 55, that is, 53 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Qvae hoc in volvmine tractantvr. Bessarionis cardinalis Niceni, & patriarchae Constātinopolitani In calumniatorē Platonis libri quatuor

Bessarioinis Cardinalis Niceni et patriarchae Constantinopoliani Metaphysicorum Aristotelis XIIII librorum tralatio

Fingerprint:

eom. i.i. i,to &ode (3) 1516 (R) pt. 1

i-ut e-a- reau sedo (3) 1516 (R) pt. 2

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Septembri MDXVI [Sept. 1516]

Notes:

Edited by Aldo Pio Manuzio. Cf. Renouard.

Imprint supplied from colophon.

The first part is based on the edition of 1503 with preface bearing this date.

Errors in foliation: Part I has leaves 11, 51, 104, 108 and 109 misfoliated as 19, 45, 96, 107 and 108. Part 2 with leaves 6, 7 and 53 misfoliated as 7, 15 and 55 respectively.

Printer's device on title page and repeated on verso of final leaf identified as Zappella 35.

A reply to the "Comparationes phylosophorum Aristotelis et Platonis" of Georgius Trapezuntius.

Part 2 has special title page reading: Bessarionis cardinalis Niceni et patriarchae Constantinopolitani Metaphysicorum Aristotelis XIIII librorum tralatio.

Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁴; 2a-2b⁸ c-f⁸ ²g⁶.

Leaves a3 and ²b2-²b3 missigned as a2 and 2b2-2b3 respectively.

Guide letter with spaces left for initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has faded inscription ("Ex libris [illegible] S. Johannis de [Bononia?]") on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: library is wanting has pt. 2 only, entitled "Bessarioinis cardinalis Niceni et patriarchae Constantinopoliani Metaphysicorum Aristotelis XIIII librorum tralatio."

Culture Class Collection copy bound in bluish paper wrappers.

Cited in:

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde (3rd ed), p. 77, no. 6

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, I, p. 353

Cat. of Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, UCLA, 148

Kallendorf & Wells. Aldine Press books, Harry Ransom Research Center, 133

Brunet, I, col. 827

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 90

Palau, A. Gian Francesco d'Asola e la tipografia Aldina, 19

Panzer, G.W. Annales typographici, VIII, p. 434

Adams B834

EDIT 16 (WWW) CNCE 5645

Riley L. Aristotle texts and commentaries in Univ. of Pennsylvania Libraries, 122

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent imprints, A605

Contains:

Aristotle. Metaphysics. Latin.

Theophrastus. Metaphysica. Latin.

In calumniatorem Platonis libri quatuor.

OCLC:

44821566