Bod-Inc: A-411

Aristoteles

Parva naturalia.

 

Analysis of Content

A2r Aristoteles: De sensu et sensato. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem de anima secundum seipsam determinatum est et de virtute qualibet ex parte ipsius consequens est . . .’ See A‑386.

A2r Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De sensu et sensato.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de sensu et sensato, qui primus est inter eos qui dicuntur de paruis naturalibus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text.

F4v Aristoteles: De memoria et reminiscentia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[R]eliquorum autem primo considerandum de memoria et reminiscentia et somno et vigilia. De memoria autem et memorari dicendum quid est et propter quam causam fit . . .’ See A‑386.

F4v Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De memoria et reminiscentia.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de memoria et reminiscentia, qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in partem proemialem et executiuam . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text.

H6v Aristoteles: De somno et vigilia. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e somno autem et vigilia considerandum est quid sint et vtrum anime vel corporis propria sint vel communia . . .’ See A‑386.

H7r Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De somno et vigilia.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est tertius liber paruorum naturalium, qui prima sui diuisione partitur in tres tractatus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text.

O2v Aristoteles: De longitudine et brevitate vitae. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e eo autem quod est hec quidem esse longe vite animalium, hec autem breuis vite . . .’ See A‑386.

O2v Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De longitudine et brevitate vitae.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est quartus liber paruorum naturalium, intitulatus de longitudine et breuitate vite . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text.

P5v [Table of contents for the second part.]

P6r Aristoteles: De iuventute et senectute. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e iuuentute autem et senectute et vita et morte nunc dicendum . . .’ See A‑386.

P6r Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De iuventute et senectute.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Iste est quintus liber paruorum naturalium Aristotelis, qui intitulatur De inspiratione et respiratione, De iuuentute et senectute . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text.

Q6v Aristoteles: De respiratione et inspiratione. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[A]nimalium autem quoniam hec quidem sunt aquatilia, hec autem in aere faciunt dietam . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 99. On Moerbeka's translation see A‑386.

Q6v Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De respiratione et inspiratione.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘In hac parte secunda o[ste]n[di]t p[rimo], quomodo fiat refrigeratio in animalibus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text.

S4v Aristoteles: De vita et morte. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[E]st quidem igitur omnibus animalibus commune viuere generatio et mors, modi autem differunt specie . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 513. On Moerbeka's translation see A‑386.

S4v Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De vita et morte.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Postquam in precedenti tractatu determinatum est de infrigidatione tam in animalibus pulmonem habentibus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. See Thorndike–Kibre 1072. Commentary alternates with the text.

U2r Aristoteles: De motu animalium. ‘De causa motus animalium.’ [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e motu autem eo qui animalium quecumque quidem circa unumquodque genus ipsorum existunt . . .’ See A‑386.

U2r Johannes de Mechlinia: [Commentary on De motu animalium.] Edited by Jacobus de Amersfordia. Incipit: ‘Incipit liber de motibus animalium, qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duos tractatus . . .’ See Lohr (1970), 205-7 no. 3. Commentary alternates with the text.

Y8r [Colophon with note on the commentator, the editor of the commentary and his additional notes, and the use of the text at Cologne.]

Imprint

Imprint: Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 27 Oct. 1491. Folio.

Remarks: On the date see Frederick R. Goff, ‘The Dates in certain German Incunabula', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 34 (1940), 17-67, at 53.

Collation

Collation: A–F^8.6 G–O^6.8 P Q⁶ R⁸ S T⁶ U⁸ X⁶ Y⁸.

Illustrations: On A1r ‘Accipies' woodcut: see Schreiber–Heitz no. 67.

References

ISTC: ia01017000

GW: GW 2428;

Hain: H 1717;

Goff: Goff A‑1017;

BMC: BMC I 230;

Proctor: Pr 1085;

Others: BSB‑Ink A‑707; Rhodes 161; Sack, Freiburg, 280; Schramm VIII 18; Schreiber V 3351; Sheppard 822; Voulliéme, Köln, 159.

LCN: 13979841

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