Bod-Inc: A-634
Avicenna
De animalibus.
Analysis of Content
a2r Avicenna: De animalibus. ‘Liber de animalibus Auicennae super librum de animalibus Aristotelis.’ Translated by Michael Scotus. Dedicated to Emperor Fridericus II. Incipit: ‘[E]t animalia quaedam communicant in membris sicut equus . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 515.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, c.1500]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–f8 g6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ia01416000
GW: GW 3112;
Hain: HC *2220;
Goff: Goff A‑1416;
BMC: BMC V 352;
Proctor: Pr 4563;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑968; Hillard 244; Rhodes 237; Sack, Freiburg, 410; Sheppard 3913-14.
LCN: 12245444, 13955796
Copies
Copy number: A-634(1)
Bound with A‑629; see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 290 × 201 mm.
SHELFMARK: C 1. 5(2) Med. Seld.
Copy number: A-634(2)
Bound with:
1. Girolamo Cardano, Opuscula. Basel: [Hieronymus Curio, for Heinrich Petri, 1559];
3. Avicenna, De generatione embrionis. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 24 Dec. 1501.
Binding: Seventeenth-century calf; staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover.
Size: 280 × 198 × 39 mm.
Size of leaf: 275 × 182 mm.
Early marginal notes in gathering a.
Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); motto on a1r; a copy of an edition, perhaps not this one, is listed in MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 16: ‘idem [i.e. Avicenna] de Animalibus per Michaelem Scotum'. Presented in 1659.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Med. Seld. A 1. 21.
SHELFMARK: AA 8(2) Med. Seld.
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