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Contenta. Politicorum libri octo commentarii. Economicorum duo. Commentarii. Hecatonomiarum septem. Economiaru[m] publ. vnus. Explanationis Leonardi in oeconomia duo.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio GrC Ar466 T21 1516
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aristotle.
- Standardized Title:
- Politics. Latin. 1515
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle. Politics--Early works to 1800.
- Aristotle.
- Oeconomica--Early works to 1800.
- Oeconomica.
- Political science--Early works to 1800.
- Political science.
- Economics--Early works to 1800.
- Economics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dominicans (former owner) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Siwicki, Dominicus, active 1782-1786 (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Sanctius, Johannes (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered leaves, CXLIII leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 29 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Politicorum libri octo commentarii
- Fingerprint:
- · EXLI S.s. a.a& nieq (3) 1515 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- [Paris] : Venunda[n]tur a Ponceto le preux sub signo ...., MDXV [1515]
- Notes:
- Latin poem by Beatus Rhenanus entitled "Recognitoribus in officina [quam] accuratissime, Petro Porta & Beato Rhenano" on penultimate leaf (&5).
- Date of imprint supplied from colophon.
- Printer Le Preux was active in Paris at this time.
- Moreau records several variants issued by different printers. Here work has device of the publisher Poncet le Preux identified as Renouard, 632.
- Attribution of Oeconomica to Aristotle is now considered spurious. It was probably written by a later member of the Peripatetic school.
- Consists of Latin text of Aristotle's Politica in translation from the Greek by Bruni and edited with commentary by J. LeFèvre.
- Signatures: [superscript pi] a⁴ a-z⁶ &⁶
- "Hecatonomiarum septem" by Le Fevre is based on Plato's "Respublica" and "Leges"
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy with extensive contemporary interlinear and marginal annotations.
- Culture Class Collection copy wanting final leaf &6 (presumably blank)
- Culture Class Collection copy Culture Class Collection copy has ownership stamp of late 18th-century Dominican book collector Dominicus Siwicki (also known as Dominikas Sivickas) with his monogram FDS (Frater Dominicus Siwicki) in the center and the text surrounding it "Dominicus Siwicki O.[rdini] P.[raedictorum] Prov[inciae] Litv[anae] FR:[ater]" on verso of title page of work with which this is bound.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed in ms. "Ex libris F. Johannis Sanctij(?)" on title page of work with which this is bound.
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. Dominican inscription ("F[ratr]is Dominici Hermanu[...](?) O[rdinis]. Praed[icatorum]) on title page of work with which this is bound.
- Culture Class Collection copy with purchase inscription ("Emptus Lutetiae Parisiorum fl. 1 A[nno] 1613") on title page of work with which this is bound.
- Culture Class Collection copy bound with: In hoc opere co[n]tenta In politica Aristotelis introductio : adiecto comme[n]tario declarata. Oeconomicon Xenophontis. Parisijs : Ex Officina Henrici Stephani ..., vicesima secunda die nouembris, anno domini omnium gubernatoris & rectoris: decimosexto supra millesimum & quingentesimum [i.e. 22 Nov. 1516]
- Cited in:
- Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes, II, no. 1012
- Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, A434
- Index Aureliensis, 107.822
- Lohr, C. Latin Aristotle commentaries, II, p. 142
- OCLC:
- 864439345
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