Bod-Inc: V-121
Versor, Johannes
Quaestiones super libros Aristotelis (cum textu).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Questiones magistri Iohannis Versoris super libros de generatione et corruptione cum textu Arestotelis'.
a2r Aristoteles: De generatione et corruptione [`Translatio nova']. Incipit: ‘[D]e generatione autem et corruptione et natura generatorum et corruptorum veliter de omnibus et causas diuidendum . . .’ See A‑386.
a2r Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium primi libri de generatione et corruptione Aristotelis queritur primo utrum de corpore mobili ad formam sit scientia . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 6.
f4v [Explicit dated 30 May 1489.]
f5r ‘Auctoritates'.
f5v ‘Tabula questionum'.
aa1r [Title-page.] ‘Questiones magistri Iohannis Versoris super libros de celo et mundo cum textu Arestotelis'.
aa2r Aristoteles: De caelo et mundo. Incipit: ‘[D]e natura scientia fere plurima videtur circa corpora et magnitudines . . .’ See A‑386.
aa2r Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros De caelo et mundo. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium primi libri de celo et mundo queritur primo utrum scientia naturalis . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 5. The commentary alternates with the text of Aristotle.
hh9r ‘Tituli questionum'.
hh10r ‘Autoritates'.
ii1r Aristoteles: Meteorologica. ‘Primus metheorum.’ Incipit: ‘[D]e primis quidem igitur causis nature et de omni motu naturali adhuc autem de secundum superiorem lationem . . .’ See A‑386.
ii1r Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros Meteororum. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium primi libri metheorum Arestotelis queritur primo utrum corpus simplex mobile ad formam mixti imperfecti . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 7; a commentary to books I–III only.
pp3r ‘Tituli questionum'.
pp4r ‘Autoritates'. The table of contents is inserted before Aristotle's book IV.
A1r [Title-page.] ‘Questiones super parua naturalia cum textu Arestotelis.’
A2r Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros Parvorum naturalium Aristotelis cum textu. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium paruorum naturalium queritur primo utrum corpus sensitiuum sit subiectum scientie huius libri . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 9.
A2v Aristoteles: De sensu et sensato. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem de anima secundum ipsam determinatum est et de virtutum qualibet ex parte ipsius consequens est . . .’ See A‑386.
C3r Aristoteles: De memoria et reminiscentia. Incipit: ‘[D]e memoria autem et rememorari dicendum quid est et propter quam causam sit . . .’ See A‑386.
C3r Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros Parvorum naturalium Aristotelis cum textu. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri de memoria et reminiscentia queritur primo utrum memoria sit solum preteritorum . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 9.
D1v Aristoteles: De somno et vigilia. Incipit: ‘[D]e somno autem et uigilia considerandum est quid sint et utrum anime uel corporis propria sint uel communia . . .’ See A‑386.
D4r Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros Parvorum naturalium Aristotelis cum textu. Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur primo utrum somnus et vigilia sint passiones conuenientes . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 9.
E5r Aristoteles: De longitudine et brevitate vitae. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[D]e eo autem quod est hoc quidem esse longe vite animalium, hoc autem breuis uite . . .’ See A‑386.
E6v Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros Parvorum naturalium Aristotelis cum textu. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium libri de longitudine et breuitate vite nota textum queritur primo utrum calidum et humidum sint cause longe vite . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9 no. 9.
E7v ‘Registrum questionum'.
E8v ‘Autoritates'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell], 1489. Folio.
Remarks: In three parts: (I) is dated 30 May 1489, (II–III) are undated. The work consists of: (I) De generatione et corruptione; (II) De caelo et mundo and Liber metheororum; (III) De parva naturalia. BSB‑Ink suggests that Thomas Aquinas, De ente et essentia (Goff T‑289) and Gerardus de Monte, Concordantiae dictorum Thomae Aquinatis et Alberti Magni (Goff G‑170) are also part of the same edition.
Collation
Collation: Part I: a8 b–f6; part II: aa8 bb–gg6 hh10 ii–oo6 pp10; part III: A8 B–D6 E8.
Remarks: Part I: a2 signed a1; part II: aa2 signed a1; part III: A2 signed A1.
References
ISTC: iv00253000
Hain: HC *16047;
Goff: Goff V‑253;
Proctor: Pr 1295;
Others: Alexander Birkenmajer, ‘Die Wiegendrucke der physischen Werke Johannes Versors', in Bok- och bibliotekshistoriska studier tillägnade Isak Collijn (Uppsala, 1925), 121-35, with this edition listed at 135; BSB‑Ink V‑165; Sack, Freiburg, 3650; Sheppard 969 (II), 970 (III), 973 (I); Voulliéme, Köln, 1228, 1235, 1231.
Copies
Copy number: V-121(1)
Part I bound after part III. Wanting parts IV and V. Wanting the blank leaf f6 of part I. In part II, sheet dd1 is misbound within sheet dd3.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half blue morocco with blue cloth; probably bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 298 × 215 × 32 mm.
Size of leaf: 287 × 200 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in an early hand in brown ink, in part III only.
A few initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 235, no. 317, on 18 Jan. 1889 for 25 Marks; see Library Bills.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.18.
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