Bod-Inc: M-316
Monte, Lambertus de
Copulata super tres libros Aristotelis De anima iuxta doctrinam Thomae de Aquino.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1r Urbanus V, Pont. Max.: [Extract from a letter addressed to] Thomas Aquinas. Incipit: ‘Vrbanus quintus in numero pontificum . . . Thome Aquinatis extollens gloriam et apostolica autoritate approbans doctrinam mandauit . . .’ Explicit: totis viribus ampliare
a1v ‘In profundissimum diuinissimumque Thomam Gymnici Montis patriarcham epigramma'. Incipit: ‘Vt sol immenso lucentia corpora giro | Vincit vt oceano cetera cedit aqua'; 5 elegiac distichs.
a2r Monte, Lambertus de: Copulata super tres libros Aristotelis De anima iuxta doctrinam Thomae de Aquino. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium sexti libri philosophie naturalis (in quo philosophorum princeps Arestoteles . . .’ Explicit: adpresens sufficiant See M‑314. Small extracts of text are followed by commentary.
o4r [Colophon.]
o4v ‘Tabula'.
o6r [Tabular diagram.] ‘Genera potentiarum anime'.
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 5 Oct. 1498. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–o6.
Remarks: Leaf a1 unsigned, a2 signed ai, etc.
References
ISTC: im00838000
Hain: H *11585;
Goff: Goff M‑839;
BMC: BMC I 288;
Proctor: Pr 1346;
Others: BSB‑Ink L‑42; CIBN L‑24; Oates 772-3; Rhodes 1219; Sheppard 1037; Voulliéme, Köln, 726.
LCN: 14513001
Copies
Copy number: M-316(1)
Bound with:
1. Lambertus de Monte, Copulata super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis iuxta doctrinam doctoris Thomae de Aquino. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 8 Sept. 1498 (M‑317);
3. Positiones circa libros Physicorum et De anima Aristotelis. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 16 May 1494 (P‑446(2)).
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled leather over wooden boards, with two metal catches and the remains of two clasps. On both covers triple fillets form an outer frame within which is a repeated circular decorative stamp. Triple fillets form a frame within which is a repeated floral stamp. Further triple fillets form an inner frame within which is a repeated foliate stamp. Triple fillets form the inner rectangle which is decorated with the floral stamp, and a repeated merrythought stamp made up from headed-outline tools. At the head of the upper cover is the stamped word ‘PHISICORVM'. The spine is very badly damaged, but bears the remains of a paper label. Two reinforcing slips from a parchment Hebrew manuscript, one at the front, the other at the back.
Size: 292 × 219 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 275 × 206 mm.
Copious early marginal and interlinear notes throughout, mostly in one tiny, sixteenth-century German hand, and consisting of comments on the text; these extend onto the front pastedown and the blank leaf cc4 of item 1.
Provenance unknown; a bookseller's small circular label bearing the number ‘347' is at the head of the spine. Purchased for £0. 4. 6; see Books Purchased (1855), 43.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.37(2).
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