Bod-Inc: O-024
Oresme, Nicolaus
De latitudinibus formarum.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Oresme, Nicolaus: De latitudinibus formarum. ‘Incipit perutilis tractatus de latitudinibus formarum secundum reverendum doctorem magistrum Nicolaum Horem, die decima Ianuarii.’ Incipit: ‘[F]ormarum quia latitudines multipliciter variantur, multiplices varietates difficillime discernuntur ...’ [b3v] Explicit: ‘... sed ex predictis potest faciliter considerari quod supradicti applicari possunt, et ideo transeo, et sic finem habe at [sic] tractatus de latitudinibus formarum.’ See Marshall Clagett, ‘Oresme, Nicole', DSB X 229-30. P. M. M. Duhem, Le Système du monde, 10 vols (Paris, 1913-59), IV 157-64.
[b3v] [First colophon] Colophon: ‘Tractatus de formarum latitudinibus a venerabili doctore magistro Nicolao Horen. editus finit foeliciter impressus ac diligenti cura emendatus Padue per magistrum Matheum Cedornis de Vuindisgrecz, anno Domini 1486, die vero 18 mensis Februarii.’
[b4r] Pelacanis de Parma, Blasius de: Quaestiones super tractatu de latitudinibus formarum. ‘Incipiunt questiones super Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum determinate per venerandum doctorem magnistrum Blasium de Parma de Pelicanis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]rimo queritur vtrum cuiuslibet forme latitudo sit uniformis vel difformis ...’ [c5r] Explicit: ‘... medius parcialis latitudinis vel parcialium et per hoc devenire in cognitionem gradus medii tocius latitudinis.’ See Thorndike IV 656; Piana, Ricerche, 315-23, at 321 no. 5.
[c5r] [Second colophon] Colophon: ‘Expliciunt Questiones super tractatus de latitudinibus formarum magistri Iohannis Horen. determinate per venerandum doctorem Artium megistrum Blasium de Parma de Pelicanis. Impresse Padue, die, mense et anno supradictis, in laudem Dei summi.’
Imprint
Imprint: Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis , 18 Feb. 1486. 4°.
Secundo folio: difformis uniformiter variatio reddit unifor
Collation
Collation: [a8 b c6].
Illustrations: Woodcut initials and diagrams.
References
ISTC: io00094000
Hain: H *8925;
Goff: Goff O‑94;
BMC: BMC VII 923;
Proctor: Pr 6820;
Others: BSB‑Ink O‑79; Oates 2560; Sander 3466; Sheppard 5602-3.
LCN: 14540099, 14540114
Copies
Copy number: O-024(1)
The third, fourth, and fifth leaves of the last gathering are numbered 01, 9, and 9, altered in black ink to 13, 14, 15.
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf blind-tooled with fillets only; bound for the Bodleian Library; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 213 × 155 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 206 × 145 mm.
Partial manuscript foliation in the middle of the upper margin in an early hand. ‘23' in pencil on [a1r].
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 3. 6; see Books Purchased (1850), 29.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.63.
Copy number: O-024(2)
A variant. The third, fourth, and fifth leaves of the last gathering are numbered 10, 11, and 9.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, with blue-edged leaves.
Size: 217 × 155 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 145 mm.
‘9' in pencil on front endleaf. ‘5' in brown ink in the upper right-hand corner of [a1r]. A few marginal and interlinear notes, mainly correcting the text, in an early hand, also diagrams on [b1r].
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 80.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.114.
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