Bod-Inc: M-025
Maiolus, Laurentius
Epiphyllides in dialecticis, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Manutius, Aldus: [Letter addressed to] ‘Adolescentibus studiosis'. Aldo Manuzio editore, 18-19.
a2v Maiolus, Laurentius: [Letter addressed to] Aldus Manutius. Incipit: ‘Testarer, et iureiurando, si opus esset . . .’
a3v Maiolus, Laurentius: [Letter addressed to] Hippolytus d'Este. Incipit: ‘[C]um tuas ex Pannonia iucundissimas . . .’
a4r [Table of contents.]
b1r Maiolus, Laurentius: Epiphyllides in dialecticis. Incipit: ‘[H]umanum studium in nulla re magis quam in adeptione scientiarum esse debet . . .’ See Jules Dukas, Recherches sur l'histoire littéraire du quinzième siècle. Laurent Maioli, Pic de la Mirandole, Elie del Medigo (Paris, 1876), 2-13, and Gian Giacomo Musso, ‘La cultura genovese tra il Quattro e il Cinquecento', Miscellanea di storia ligure, 1 (Genoa, 1958), 123-87, at 139-42.
d6v Maiolus, Laurentius: ‘Tractatus de positione modorum quinque Theophrasti et de figura quarta Galeni et quomodo abinuicem differunt'. Incipit: ‘[T]heophrastus existimauit modos figurae primae esse nouem . . .’
e4r Maiolus, Laurentius: ‘Tractatus de misturis primis, in quo ponitur diuersitas opinionum, et quid sentiendum secundum Aristotelem'. Incipit: ‘[D]ifficile et admodum arduum est uidere an uerum sit . . .’
f2v Maiolus, Laurentius: ‘Tractatus de syllogismis hypoteticis secundum Auerroim et increpatio Auicennae Alfarabii et Boetii'. Incipit: ‘[S]yllogismorum hypoteticorum siue conditionalium . . .’
g8r Maiolus, Laurentius: ‘Quod pars logicae que topica dicitur non sit scientia ut probabiliores latini putant'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia nobis est animus postposito libro topicorum . . .’
g9v ‘Registrum'.
2a1r [Title-page.]
2a1v Maiolus, Laurentius: [Letter addressed to] Hybletus Fliscus. Incipit: ‘Tantum me tibi pro tua erga . . .’ See Dukas 13-25 and Musso 140-1.
2a2r Maiolus, Laurentius: De conversione propositionum secundum peripateticos. Incipit: ‘[P]ertractaturis de conuersione propositionum de inesse . . .’ See Dukas 13-25.
i8r [Colophon.]
i8r ‘Registrum'.
A1r Averroes: Quaestio in Analytica Priora Aristotelis. Translated by Helias Cretensis Hebraeus. The translation is dedicated to Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[I]ntentio in hoc sermone est inuestigare de propositione . . .’ See Dukas 26-76 and B. Kieszkowski, ‘Les rapports entre Elie del Medigo et Pic de la Mirandole', Rinascimento, 2nd ser. 4 (1964), 49.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, July 1497. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a4 b–f8 g10 2a–i A–D8.
Remarks: Leaf A1 signed a.
References
ISTC: im00083000
Hain: HC 2191; R 611;
Goff: Goff M‑83;
BMC: BMC V 557;
Proctor: Pr 5558;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑64; CIBN M‑35; Hillard 1292; Oates 2175-6; Scapecchi, ‘Annali', 14; Sheppard 4636-7.
LCN: 14479529
Copies
Copy number: M-025(1)
Bound with:
2. Laurentius Maiolus, De gradibus medicinarum. Venice: [Aldus Manutius, Romanus, before 13 Sept.] 1497 (M‑026).
Wanting the blank leaf g10.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled purple morocco; gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 196 × 147 × 28 mm.
Size of leaf: 190 × 135 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly correcting the text and extracting key words, in a humanist hand.
Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823); sale (1824), lot 390; purchased for £17. 17. 0; see Books Purchased (1824), 9; note on the verso of the front endleaf: ‘Purchased at Sir M. M. Sykes' sale 1824'.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2R 3.6(1).
Copy number: M-025(2)
Wanting g5-6 and D3-6. Owing to an error of imposition the text of the inner forme of the second sheet of gathering2 d (2 d3v,2 d4r,2 d5v, and2 d6r) of De conversione propositionum is also printed on the corresponding pages of gathering2 c.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco, stamped with the Aldine anchor; gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 209 × 150 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 138 mm.
Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a humanist hand. Early manuscript foliation: 1-12 only. On the front endleaf are typographical notes in a nineteenth-century hand.
Provenance: Samuel Butler (1774-1839); sale, pt II, lot 1303. Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894). Donated by Malan to the Indian Institute, Oxford, in 1885; book-plate: ‘Indian Institute, Oxford. The Malan Library presented by S. C. Malan, D. D., Vicar of Broadwindsor, January 1885'. Acquired by the Bodleian in 1928.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.1497.2.
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