Incipit Expositio clarissimi [et] celeberrimi philosophi Gaetani Thienensis sup[er] libros De a[n]i[m]a Aristotelis philosopho[rum] principis Grecorum sapientissimi.
Uniform title
Expositio in libros Aristotelis De anima
Created/published
[Vicenza] : Impe[n]sa ingenioq[ue] Henrici de Sancto Vrso summa cum diligentia impressis Vincentie, annis D[omi]ni ab Incarnatione 1486. xvij. Cal[endarum] Nouembris [16 Oct]
Description
[250] p. (the last [4] p. are blank) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Title from incipit (leaf a2r) which is in the variant setting described by Reichling (III, p. 200). Includes Gaetano Tiene's De sensu agente and Jean de Jandun's De substantia orbis Averrois. Imprint from colophon (leaf t2r); colophon at end of 1st work (leaf n5r) is dated 21 Sept. 1486. Signatures: a⁸[-a6], b-c⁶, d-l⁸/⁶, m⁶, n⁸, o-p⁶, q⁸, r-s⁶, t⁴. Stub of the cancelled leaf conjugate with a3, between leaves a5 and a7. Printed in 2 columns. Includes register.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-26 BM 15th cent., VII, p. 1046 (IB.31846) Copinger-Reichling, 617 (= 5824 + 5825) IGI 2340
Includes
Tiene, Gaetano, 1387-approximately 1462. De sensu agente. 1486. Jean, de Jandun. Quaestiones in librum De substantia orbis Averrois. 1486.
Leaf t4, blank, lacking; edges have been trimmed, affecting a few early notes. Extensive early manuscript notes in brown ink, most of them in the same hand, with numerous manicules in different styles, a few drawings and other markings, in most of the 1st work and in pts. of Jean de Jandun's work; a few corrections in text. Inscription on recto of 1st leaf "emi quinque carlenis aquoda[m] fratre dominico ordinis p[rae]dicato[rum] die 8 noue[m]bris 1488 etc." followed by another inscription "presente Petro Giorgetti Cingulano 1854"; another inscription on same p., defaced, illegible. In a contemporary vellum manuscript cover done in Lombardic style (exposed tawed covering over raised bands); also a manuscript fragment used as guard; remains of 2 purple ties on fore-edge; edges painted in purple; several spine inscriptions and shelfmarks "B 193" and "179"; remains of fragments of spine labels; some worming; repaired; in a tailored box.
