tia01416000

Text-inc Id:

tia01416000

Bod-inc Id:

A-634

Headings:

Avicenna De animalibus.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Avicenna: De animalibus. ‘Liber de animalibus Auicennae super librum de animalibus Aristotelis.’ Translated by Michael Scotus. Dedicated to Emperor Fridericus II. Incipit: ‘[E]t animalia quaedam communicant in membris sicut equus . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 515.

Imprint:

[Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, c.1500]. Folio.

Collation:

a–f⁸ g⁶. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01416000 HC *2220; Goff A‑1416; BMC V 352; GW 3112; Pr 4563; BSB‑Ink A‑968; Hillard 244; Rhodes 237; Sack, Freiburg, 410; Sheppard 3913-14. LCN: 12245444, 13955796

Copies:

1. A-634(1) First copy Bound with A‑629; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 290 × 201 mm. SHELFMARK: C 1. 5(2) Med. Seld.
2. A-634(2) Second copy Bound with:
   1. Girolamo Cardano, Opuscula. Basel: [Hieronymus Curio, for Heinrich Petri, 1559];
   3. Gabriel Zerbus, Liber anathomie corporis humani .... [Venice, 1502]. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf; staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover. Size: 280 × 198 × 39 mm. Size of leaf: 275 × 182 mm. Early marginal notes in gathering a. Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); Greek motto on a1r: 'Περὶ παντὸς τὴν ἐλευθερίαν' ('Freedom above all things'); probably the copy listed in manuscript catalogue of Selden's books, MS. Broxbourne 84. 10, p. 16: 'idem [i.e. Avicenna] de Animalibus per Michaelem Scotum'. Presented to the Bodleian in 1659 by the executors of Selden’s will. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Med. Seld. A 1.21. SHELFMARK: AA 8(2) Med. Seld.