Bod-Inc: A-419
Aristoteles
Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
Analysis of Content
a2r Aristoteles [pseudo-]: Problemata. Incipit: ‘ “[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” scribit Arestoteles, princeps philosophorum, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A‑418.
f3v ‘Liber de vita et morte Arestotelis omnium philosophorum principis.’ Incipit: ‘[N]ature causa rerum rector sine pausa | Cuius factura fertur queuis genitura.’ See Walther, Initia, 11606 and Grabmann, Geistesleben, II 97. With printed interlinear glosses.
f3v [Commentary on the Vita Aristotelis.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de vita et morte Aresto[telis], qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duas partes, in quarum prima determinat de origine Aresto[telis] . . .’ Commentary alternates with the text.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1490]. 4°.
Remarks: Variant on title-page noted by GW: audentibus (state A) and audientibus (state B).
Collation
Collation: a–g6 h8.
References
ISTC: ia01037200
GW: GW 2469;
Hain: HC *1724 = 1788a;
Proctor: Pr 1392;
Others: Campbell 180; CIBN A‑545; Oates 799; Sheppard 997; Voulliéme, Köln, 152.
LCN: 13981409
Copies
Copy number: A-419(1)
State A.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco, with dark blue cloth over pasteboards; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 196 × 136 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 188 × 128 mm.
Initials are supplied in blue with reserved white decoration and red; paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Purchased at anonymous sale (25 Feb. 1886), lot 901, for £0. 7. 0.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.30.
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