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Paulus Venetus

Expositio in Aristotelem De generatione et corruptione, et al. (ed. Jacobus Baptista Alovisius and Bartholomaeus Rivolta).

 

Analysis of Content

A1r [Title-page.]

A1v Alovisius, Jacobus Baptista: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Albertus III Pius, Prince of Carpi. Incipit: ‘[Q]ue christiani nominis religio ab ipso orthodoxe fidei primordio . . .’

A2r Paulus Venetus: Expositio in Aristotelem De generatione et corruptione. Edited by Jacobus Baptista Alovisius and Bartholomaeus [Rivolta] Ravennas, as stated in the colophon. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[H]umanarum diuinarumque notitiam rerum . . .’ On this edition see G. Montecchi, ‘Autori ravennati ed editoria tra XV e XVI secolo', in Ravenna in età veneziana, ed. D. Bolognesi, Interventi Classensi, 6 (Ravenna, 1986), 191-206, at 203-4; A. R. Perreiah, Paul of Venice: A Bibliographical Guide (Bowling Green, Oh., 1986), 40 no. 6.

A2r Paulus Venetus: Expositio in Aristotelem De generatione et corruptione. Incipit: ‘[D]e generatione autem . . . Iste est tertius liber naturalium Aristotelis . . .’ See Lohr 28 (1972), 314-20 no. 8.

N7v [Colophon.]

N8r ‘Tabula'.

N8v Tuscus Cesenas, Vincentius: ‘Epigramma' [addressed to] Albertus III Pius, Prince of Carpi. Incipit: ‘Fulget appolineus tibi nunc Alberte libellus | Aurea qui sophie dogmata prisca refert'; 3 elegiac distichs.

O1r Paulus Venetus: De compositione mundi. Edited by Jacobus Baptista Alovisius. Incipit: ‘[T]ractatus de compositione mundi est prouidendum quibus circulus celum componitur . . .’ See Perreiah 39 no. 1.

P7r [Second colophon.]

P7v ‘Tabula'.

P7v Gemmatus, Baptista: ‘Epigramma' [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Ingenio quicunque vales, abstrusaque queris | Noscere, diuinum hoc perlege semper opus'; 6 elegiac distichs.

P8r Alovisius, Jacobus Baptista: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Albertus III Pius, Prince of Carpi. Incipit: ‘[L]eges et hanc Alberte princeps clarissime operis huius appendicem . . .’

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 21 May 1498. Folio.

Collation

Collation: A–L⁸ M⁶ N–P⁸.

Illustrations: Woodcut initials and diagrams.

References

ISTC: ip00209000

Hain: H *12518;

Goff: Goff P‑209;

BMC: BMC V 450;

Proctor: Pr 5087;

Others: BSB‑Ink P‑96; CIBN P‑79; Hillard 1532; Essling 1162; Oates 1999; Rhodes 1327; Sander 5480; Sheppard 4233.

LCN: 14467258

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