Bod-Inc: A-390
Aristoteles
De animalibus (trans. Theodorus Gaza).
Analysis of Content
a2r Theodorus Graecus Thessalonicensis [I.e. Theodorus Gaza: Letter for the De animalibus addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. ‘Theodori Graeci Thessalonicensis praefatio in libros De animalibus Aristotelis philosophi, ad Sixtum quartum maximum.’ Incipit: ‘[L]ycurgum Lacedemonium, qui leges ciuibus suis constituit, reprehendunt nonnulli . . .’ a7r Explicit: ‘... ut pari studio laborem suscipere alterum, plamque in dies afferre huiusmodi opera possim.’ See Thorndike–Kibre 840; on Gaza's translation see Livia Martinoli Santini, ‘Le traduzioni dal greco', in Un pontificato ed una città, 81-101, at 81-4, and note 18; John Monfasani, ‘The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle's De Animalibus in the Renaissance', in Natural Particulars: Names and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, ed. Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1999), 205-47.
a7v Aristoteles: De animalibus [Edited by] Ludovicus Podocatharus [Translated by] Theodorus Gaza. ‘Aristoteles De historia animalium liber primus, interprete Theodoro.’ Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium partes aut incomposite sunt quae scilicet in similes sibi partes diuiduntur ut caro in carnes . . .’ o10v Explicit: ‘... Idque tum in quadrupedum genere, tum in avium, tum etiam in hominum, ita esse magna ex parte perpensum est.’ See Thorndike–Kibre 99.
p1r Aristoteles: De partibus animalium. [Edited by] Ludovicus Podocatharus [Translated by] Theodorus Gaza. ‘Aristotelis De partibus animalium liber primus, interprete Theodoro.’ Incipit: ‘[I]n omni contemplandi genere omnique tum nobiliori, tum ignobiliori docendi uia et ratione . . .’ u4r Explicit: ‘... Que cum explicata sint, sequitur ut de generationibus animalium differamus.’ See Thorndike–Kibre 699. On the translation see S. Perfetti, ‘Cultius atquae integrius': Theodoro Gaza, traduttore umanistico del De partibus animalium’, Rinascimento, 2nd ser. 35 (1995), 253-86.
u4r Aristoteles: De generatione animalium. [Edited by] Ludovicus Podocatharus [Translated by] Theodorus Gaza. ‘Aristotelis de generatione animalium liber primus, interprete Theodoro.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um de caeteris animalium partibus tum summatim, tum singulatim seorsum de propriis generis cuiusque dictum iam sit . . .’ ff4v Explicit: ‘... sed necessario veniant, et quam ob causam, videlicet eam cui motum tribuimus.’ See Thorndike–Kibre 289.
ff4v [Colophon with editorial note] Colophon: ‘Finiunt libri De animalibus Aristotelis, interprete Theodoro Gaze. v. clarissimo, quos Ludovicus Podocatharus Cyprius ex archetypo ipsius Theodori fideliter et diligenter auscultavit, et formulis imprimi curavit Venetiis, per Iohannem de Colonia sociumque eius Iohannem Manthen de Gerretzem. Anno Domini M.CCCC.LXXVI.’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen 1476 f°
Secundo folio: a3r: iudicio semper damnati illorum interpretationem, melioremque; a8r: eedem sunt, aut ratione contrariorum, et per excessum defectumque dif
Collation
Collation: a b10 c d8 e–k10.8 l–t10 u8 x10 aa–dd10 ee8 ff6.
Remarks: Spaces left blank for initial, with printed guide letters.
References
ISTC: ia00973000
GW: GW 2350;
Hain: HC *1699;
Goff: Goff A‑973;
BMC: BMC V 232;
Proctor: Pr 4312;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑678; CIBN A‑521; Osler IM, 106; Rhodes 140; Sheppard 3479-81.
LCN: 14338685
Copies
Copy number: A-390(1)
Wanting the blank leaves a1 and ff6.
Binding: Late eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf, probably for the Bodleian Library marbled pastedowns; edges gilt; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; rebacked.
Size: 299 × 215 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 287 × 190 mm.
In the registrum: ‘Id quod' supplied in manuscript for gathering dd.
Provenance: Regensburg, Bavaria, unidentified monastery; ‘Conventus ratisponensis' on a2r. Purchased for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1797), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.21.
Copy number: A-390(2)
Leaf a1 bound after c8, a10 bound after d8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library in 1855 at a cost of £0. 12. 0; see Binders' books (1855, Auct. and Rawl.), p. 1, no. 9 (Library Records d. 1203).
Size: 310 × 215 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 298 × 192 mm.
Running heading with numbers of books for books I–IX. On a sheet of paper now used as the rear pastedown, a handwritten alphabet of initials in red. In the registrum: ‘Id quod' supplied in manuscript for gathering dd.
Initials and paragraph are marks supplied in red; some red capital strokes.
Provenance: Attel, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Michael; ‘Monasterii Attl' on a2r. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.26.
Copy number: A-390(3)
Wanting the blank leaves a1 and ff6.
Binding: Gold-tooled blue morocco; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 312 × 215 × 58 mm.
Size of leaf: 297 × 194 mm.
Early running headings. In the registrum: ‘Id quod' supplied in manuscript for gathering dd.
Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 378. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. A 5.15.
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