Bod-Inc: A-115
Albertus Magnus
Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum.
Analysis of Content
a2r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum. Incipit: ‘Sicut vult philosophus in pluribus locis, omnis scientia de genere bonorum est. Verumtamen enim operatio aliquando bona, aliquando mala . . .’ See A‑114. In this edition, the last part of the third book (b2r) is included before the explicit.
b3v Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: De mirabilibus mundi. Incipit: ‘Postquam scimus, quod opus sapientis est facere mirabilia cessare rerum, que apparent in conspectu . . .’ See A‑114.
c7r [Computistic addition.] Incipit: ‘[V]t autem, qui legeris que superius notata sunt, vberiorem ructum(!) capias, volumus communem regulam et breuem tradere ad sciendum ortum lune secundum epactam . . .’ Separated from the preceding text by an explicit.
Imprint
Imprint: Naples: Antoine Gontier, 12 Nov. 1493. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–c8.
References
ISTC: ia00261500
GW: GW 639;
Hain: H 540;
Proctor: Pr 6745;
Others: Fava–Bresciano 192; Sheppard 5473.
Remarks: GW fails to indicate the line endings of the concluding passage on b3v: ‘Et nota ꝙ Jupiter [et] Ue / | nus boni ſunt: Saturn9 | [et] Mars mali ſunt. Sol vero | [et] Luna mediocres. Mercuri9 | autem cum bonis bon9 [et] cum | malis malus. | Finis | Eiuſdem Alberti magni de | mirabilibus mundi feliciter | Incipit.’
LCN: 14292620
Copies
Copy number: A-115(1)
Variants from the GW transcription of c7v, col. 2: ‘Etatem Lune duplica poſt | addito quinqƺ. Quinqƺ dabis | . . . Impreſſū Neapoli per Mai | ſtro Antonio Gonteri . . .’
Bound with:
1. Johannes de Sacrobosco, Sphaera. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1505;
3. Quaestiones tres . . . in celeberrima Lovaniensium Academia disputatae per . . . Henricum A fine Lyranum. Antwerp: Guilielmus Vorstermannus, 4 Apr. 1517 (Nijhoff–Kronenberg 42).
Binding: Seventeenth-century blind tooled calf; triple fillets form a border; title on fore-edge; 2 ties on fore-edges, now lost.
Size: 200 × 144 × 19 mm.
Size of leaf: 194 × 141 mm.
Fragments of a parchment missal used as reinforcing pieces.
Title along the fore-edge.
Provenance: Hypoll(?), W. (fl. before 1600); on endleaf ‘Ex dono Doctoris W Hypoll(?)'. Joseph Maynard (1607?–1670); inscription on a1r of item 1. On a1r of item 2 names of other members of this family, all in the same hand: Alexander Maynard of Tavistock (fl. 1584), his wife Honoria and his son Sir John Maynard (1602-1690).
SHELFMARK: 4° S 58(2) Art.
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