[Scriptum super librum de anima Aristotelis].

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Author / Creator:Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428, author.
Imprint:[Venice] : Venetiis impressu[m] per magistrum Phyliphum Venetu[m], anno salutis milesimo quadrigentisimo octuagesimo primo die decimoseptimo mensis ap[ri]lis [17 April 1481]
Description:[252] leaves ; 28 cm (folio)
Language:Latin
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy imperfect: lacking leaves [1], [19], [51], [184], and [252]; leaves [19] and [51] replaced with manuscript copy of missing text; leaf [2] torn with loss of text, partially mended with some text supplied in manuscript; leaves [3]-[5] partially wormed[?] with some loss of text.
University of Chicago Library's copy forms part of the Berlin Collection.
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2781853
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Text begins, leaf [2]: [T]anta litterarum scientie est amplissima gloria ut sempiterna atq[ue]i[m]mortalis ...
Tanta litterarum scientie est amplissima gloria ut sempiterna atqueimmortalis ...
Other uniform titles:Berlin Collection.
Other authors / contributors:Petri, Philipo di, active 1472-1482, printer.
Silva, Ercole, 1756-1840, former owner.
Provenance:Franciscan monograpm stamp: S.A.M. [with symbol of a cross, Christ's arm and St. Francis' arm].
Stamp: B. S.A.M.
Armorial stamp: Comes Hercules Silva.
Illegible former owner's inscription.
Manuscript annotations, some contemporary, in at least 4 hands; some partially trimmed on fore-edge and some partially obscured by mending in the gutter.
Binding: Quarter-bound green leather and brown paste paper over boards.
Notes:Title from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Imprint from colophon.
Explicit and colophon, leaf [250] verso: Pauli Veneti artium, sacreq[ue] pagine doctoris mellifuli, Ordinis Heremitaru[m], diui Augustini scriptum super librum De anima, per hypatheticorum principis Aristotilis. Ex proprio originali diligenter emandatum, feliciter ad laudem dei, intermerateq[ue] v[er]ginis Marie, misericordie matris explicit. Venetiis impressu[m] per magistrum Phyliphum Venetu[m], anno salutis milesimo quadrigentisimo octuagesimo primo die decimoseptimo mensis ap[ri]lis.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b⁸ C-F⁸ c-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-B⁶; [$4 signed (- b2, y4, A4, B4; + a5; l1 missigned "i", l2 missigned "i2", t2 missinged "t3")].
Printed in 2 columnes; 51 lines; types, 150G. (first words of sections), 114R. (head-lines), 80G. (text); capital spaces.
First and last leaves blank.
Rubricated; alternating red and blue initials, some pen-flourished; illuminated initials on leaf [2] recto.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ip00235000
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 12519
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, page 222 (IB. 20188)
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry P-235
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 4280
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M30287
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry P-101

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