Bod-Inc: A-389
Aristoteles
De anima (trans. Johannes Argyropoulos).
Analysis of Content
a1r ‘Epigramma extemporarium in Aristotelis de anima libros.’ Incipit: ‘Pythia fatidici monuere oracula Phoebi | Delphica quin etiam marmora sculpta ferunt'; 14 elegiac distichs.
a1v Mosnauer, Wolfgang, Liberalium Disciplinarum Magister: [Letter to] Georgius Puecher. Incipit: ‘[E]giptiorum theologia et casu et fortuna hominum ceterorumque animalium productionem factam est terra dicebat . . .’
a2r Aristoteles: De anima. Edited and with marginal notes by Wolfgang Mosnauer. Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos. Incipit: ‘[C]um omnem scientiam rem esse bonam arbitremur ac honorabilem et aliam alia magis ex eo talem esse putemus . . .’ See A‑388.
h6r [Note on errata.]
h6r [Colophon.]
h6v ‘Ad lectorem epygramma in nouam Aristotelis librorum de anima translationem.’ Incipit: ‘Mancus Aristoteles ueteris quoque sordidus author | Barbarie paucis ante legendus erat'; 7 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 23 Oct. [1500?]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–g4 h6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ia00972000
GW: GW 2346;
Hain: HC *1708;
Goff: Goff A‑972;
BMC: BMC V 566;
Proctor: Pr 5588;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑676; Sheppard 4681.
LCN: 14340354
Copies
Copy number: A-389(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half olive morocco; marbled pastedowns; bound for Bywater.
Size: 208 × 152 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 204 × 144 mm.
On a1r part of the Creed in Spanish written in a sixteenth-century hand.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); armorial book-plate; Elenchus, no. 361. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. K 1.5.
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