tia01043700

Text-inc Id:

tia01043700

Bod-inc Id:

A-422

Headings:

Aristoteles Problemata. Incipit: Omnes homines.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Aristoteles [pseudo-]: Problemata. Incipit: ‘  “[O]mnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant” vt scribit Aristoteles, princeps philosophorum, primo Methaphisice. Cuius causa potest reddi talis, quia omne ens naturaliter appetit suam perfectionem . . .’ See A‑418.
2. e1r ‘Liber de vita et morte Aristotelis omnium philosophorum principis.’ Incipit: ‘[N]ature causa rerum rector sine pausa | Cuius factura fertur queuis genitura.’ See Walther, Initia, 11606 and Grabmann, Geistesleben, II 97. With printed interlinear glosses.
3. e1r [Commentary on the Vita Aristotelis.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber de vita et morte Aristotelis, qui prima sui diuisione diuiditur in duas partes, in quarum prima determinat de origine Arestotelis . . .’ Commentary alternates with the text.

Imprint:

Paris: [Étienne Jehannot] for Denis Roce, [c.1499]. 4°. Assigned by Sheppard to Jehannot, by GW to [Jean Poitevin, c.1500].

Collation:

a⁸ b–g⁶. On a1v a woodcut depicting a pondering reader in front of a lectern. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01043700 GW 2475; Pr 8374; Sheppard 6500. LCN: 13981429

Copies:

1. A-422(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Seth Ward, De cometis. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1653 (Wing W820);
   2. Johannes Tack, Coeli anomalion. Gießen: Officina Chemliniana, 1653;
   3. Cyprianus von Leowitz, De coniunctionibus magnis. London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1573 (STC 15484);
   4. Johannes de Hese, Itinerarium per diversas mundi partes. Paris, Robert Gourmont for Olivier Senant, [1505-12];
   6. Gualtherus Burlaeus, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Paris: Raoul Laliseau, [n. d.]. Binding: Seventeenth-century English, calf, between 1653 and 1674; on both covers triple fillets form a border. Size: 170 × 134 × 39 mm. Size of leaf: 164 × 125 mm. Fragments from a sixteenth-century work containing sermons, formerly used as pastedowns, now raised. A few marginal notes. Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654)(?). Presented in 1659(?); not found in the manuscript catalogues of the Selden donation, but listed in Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 42, with the same shelfmark as it carries today. SHELFMARK: 4° W 11(5) Art. Seld.