Bod-Inc: A-420
Aristoteles
Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.
Analysis of Content
a1v Aristoteles [pseudo-]: Problemata. Incipit: ‘ “[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” scribit Arestoteles, philosophorum princeps, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A‑418.
f3r ‘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.
f3r [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°.
Collation
Collation: a–h6.
References
ISTC: ia01039700
GW: GW 2470;
Hain: C 624;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Oates 744; Sheppard 998; Voulliéme, Köln, 153.
LCN: 13981445
Copies
Copy number: A-420(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco; bound for Bywater; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 208 × 140 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 130 mm.
Early marginal notes. On h6v: ‘Sexus femineus nouitatis est auidus raroque virum amat, cuius copiam habet. Animus mulieris instabilis: tot sunt voluntates, quot in arboribus folia. Sunt homines qu[e]dam ut mulieres, que cum maxime nolle dicunt, tum maxime volunt. Nemo nobilis est nisi virtutis amator. Reperiuntur aliq[ui] senes amantes id est(?) amatos ver[o] null[i]. Iuuenes animos res ista delectat. Matronis et puellis est despectum senium. Nullius amoris m(?) mulier ni[si] quem videtur etate florentem. Si quid aliter audis, deceptio subest. Amor plus habet fellis quam mellis. Omnium rerum respiciendus est finis. Primus sapientie gradus est non amare, secundus ut sic ames ut palum fiat. Rerum omnium domit[i]o amor. Non facile custoditur, quod a pluribus amatur vel impugnatur.’
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 392. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. K 1.24.
Copy number: A-420(2)
Not in Sheppard.
Binding: Twentieth-century English grey paper boards; bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (stamp on the verso of the front endleaf).
Size: 203 × 145 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 196 × 136 mm.
Some early annotations. Bibliographical notes by Lawn on the verso of the front endleaf and on a loose leaf of paper.
Provenance: E. Weil. Dr Brian Lawn (1905-2001); purchased from Weil in 1954 (see Lawn catalogue, p. 8); book-plate; catalogue, pp. 8, 25. Bequeathed in 2001.
SHELFMARK: Lawn e.4.
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