Diui Thome Aquinatis sacri predicato[rum] ordinis in libros Aristotelis de celo & mu[n]do preclarissima co[m]mentaria : cum additionibus Petri de aluernia eiusdem ordinis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Contributor:

Peter, of Auvergne, Bishop of Clermont, -1304.

Hermannus, de Virsen.

Gregori, Gregorio de', active 1480-1528, printer.

Gregori, Giovanni de', active 15th century, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

In libros De caelo et mundo Aristotelis

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De caelo--Early works to 1800.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

C.L. (stamp)

Physical Description:

72 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

In libros Aristotelis de celo & mu[n]do preclarissima co[m]mentaria

Divi Thome Aquinatis sacri praedicatorum ordinis in libros Aristotelis de caelo et mundo praeclarissima commentaria

Goff title: De caelo et mundo : Comm. Thomas Aquinas & Petrus de Alvernia

Fingerprint:

neio tura deu. egpo (3) 1495 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Venetijs ... : [P]er Gregoriu[m] & Ioannem de Gregorijs fratres, Anno i[n]carnationis d[omi]ni 1495 Die v[er]o vltimo Octobris [31 October 1495]

Notes:

Latin translation of Aristotle's De caelo with commentary by Aquinas and Petrus, de Arvernia

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf m6v, which reads: Impressum venetijs ac studiosissime elaboratum per Gregoriu[m] & Ioannem de Gregorijs fratres Anno i[n]carnationis d[omi]ni. i.4.9.5. Die v[er]o vltimo Octobris.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 70 lines to a full column, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 239 (247) x 152 (163) mm.; col. width: 73 mm. Some initial spaces with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; catchwords on versos of most leaves (all except a1, a2, b2, c1, c6, e5, k6 and m3). Woodcut illustrations, diagrams and initials. Register on leaf m6v.

Signatures: a-m⁶.

Explicit of text on leaf m6v reads: Hic finit co[m]me[n]tu[m] diui Thome de aquino ordinis p[re]dicato[rum] su[per] duos libros De celo & mu[n]do cu[m] aliqua parte tertij. qui morte preue[n]tus residuu[m] complere non potuit. Quod aut[em] sequit[ur] vs[que] ad finem quarti libri est egregij Doctoris & ph[ilosoph]i presta[n]tissimi petri de aluernia eiusde[m] ordinis discipuli prefati doctoris Sancti Thome. no[n] mediocri labore correctu[m] per religiosum patrem fratre[m] Herma[n]nu[m] de virsen sacre theologie baccalarium formatum ordinis prefati obseruantie.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 283 x 198 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

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

Penn Libraries copy has square black ink stamp (monogram CL beneath an open umbrella) on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff A-979

BM 15th cent. V 347

GW 2356

BSB-Ink. A-683

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2024

ISTC ia00979000

Contains:

Aristotle. De caelo. Latin

OCLC:

21937237