Bod-Inc: B-558A

Bricot, Thomas

Textus abbreviatus super libris Physicorum et tota naturali philosophia Aristotelis.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.]

a2r Bricot, Thomas: Textus abbreviatus super libris Physicorum et tota naturali philosophia Aristotelis. ‘Prohemium Phisicorum.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem intelligere et scire contingit . . .’ Explicit: vere est sit accidens nulli See Lohr, 29 (1973), 177-8, no. 4; the abbreviated text alternates with commentary. The abbreviated texts are those of: De caelo et mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteora, De anima, De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De somno et vigilia, De longitudine et brevitate vitae.

a3r [Georgius Bruxellensis; and Bricot, Thomas: Quaestiones additae super libris Physicorum.] Incipit: ‘  “[Q]uoniam quidem intelligere et scire contingit . . .”. Iste est liber Phisicorum Aristotelis in quo determinatur de rebus naturalibus . . .’ Explicit: primo fuissem non eclipsat. See Lohr, 24 (1968), 156-8, no. 2; CIBN states that these quaestiones are a mixture of those of Bricot and of Georgius Bruxellensis.

m12r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fata regunt finem, spero dii cepta seundent(!)'; 1 line of verse. See Walther, Initia, 6282.

m12r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fortuna opes auferre non animum potest'; 1 line of verse.

m12v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Ut celum signis prefulgens est duodenis | Sic hominis corpus assimilatur eis'; 7 elegiac distichs.

m12v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fata regunt finem, spero dii cepta secundent'; 1 line of verse. See Walther, Initia, 6282.

T8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fata regunt finem spero dii cepta secundent'; 1 line of verse. See Walther, Initia, 6282.

T8r [Note.] Incipit: ‘Non viribus aut velocitatibus aut celeritate corporum res magne geruntur sed consilio sententia et autoritate.’

T8r [First colophon.]

T8r ‘Hexastichon.’ Incipit: ‘Qui mutilus fueras ego te mi dulce Georgi | Ad limam redigens tua nigra in candida verti'; 6 hexameters.

T8r [Printers' device.]

[*1r] Georgius [Bruxellensis]: ‘Tabula questionum et dubiorum cursus totius phisices Georgii luce clarius indicatiua'.

V1r Quaestiones sex librorum Metaphysicorum. Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur primo utrum totalis habitus qui metaphisica dicitur . . .’ Explicit: existens currit CIBN, with references, records this as an anonymous work; Hillard notes that it has been attributed to both Thomas Bricot and Georgius Bruxellensis.

V1v Bricot, Thomas: Textus abbreviatus: Metaphysica. ‘Metaphysice'. Incipit: ‘[O]mnes homines natura scire desiderant . . .’ Explicit: sapientior est

Z6v [Second colophon.]

Z6v ‘Distichon'. Incipit: ‘Qui ducis vultus et non vides ista libenter | Omnibus inuideas liuide nemo tibi'; 1 elegiac distich.

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl, 3-13 Nov. 1494. Folio.

Remarks: With two colophons in the second and third parts.

Collation

Collation: a⁸ b¹⁰ c–l⁸ m¹² A–T⁸ [*]² V X⁸ Y Z⁶.

Illustrations: Woodcuts: see BMC.

References

ISTC: ib01203000

GW: GW 5543;

Hain: HC 3971;

Goff: Goff B‑1203;

BMC: BMC VIII 135;

Proctor: not in Pr;

Others: CIBN B‑855; Hillard 504; Rhodes 445; not in Sheppard. Microfiche: Unit 28: Philosophy: Renaissance, PH 156.

LCN: 13407423

Copies