tio00029000

Text-inc Id:

tio00029000

Bod-inc Id:

O-008

Headings:

Odonis, Geraldus Expositio in Aristotelis Ethicam.

Analysis of content:

1. Aa1r [Title-page.]
2. Aa2r ‘Tituli quaestionum'.
3. Aa3r [Alphabetical index.]
4. Bb1r Odonis, Geraldus: Expositio in Aristotelis Ethicam. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est virtus scrutamur ut boni efficiamur . . .’
5. Bb2v Odonis, Geraldus: Expositio in Aristotelis Ethicam. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars et omnis doctrina . . .’ See O‑007.

Imprint:

Venice: Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 14 July 1500. Folio.

Collation:

Aa¹⁰ Bb–Zz ⁊⁊ Ɂɂ⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: io00029000 HC *11969; Goff O‑29; BMC V 576; Pr 5628; BSB‑Ink G‑132; Hillard 1479; Oates 2205; Rhodes 1267; Sack, Freiburg, 1521; Sheppard 4705-6. LCN: 14539464

Copies:

1. O-008(1) Copy Binding: Contemporary French calf with panel stamps bearing the name of André Boule. Triple fillets form a quadruple frame. Within the outer frame is a floral roll within lozenges. Within the following one, a floral roll. Within the inner frame is a roll decorated with bees. The inner rectangle is decorated, on the upper cover, with a panel showing the martyrdom of S. Sebastian; see Goldschmidt pl. xxiv. On the lower is a panel showing Christ on the cross between S. Thomas Aquinas and S. Catherine of Siena; reproduced in Cyril Davenport, Cameo Book-stamps Figured and Described (London, 1911), no. xxxv; see also Strickland Gibson, ‘Bookbindings in the Buchanan Collection', BLR 2 (1941), 6-12, at 9; Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Bookbindings (London, 1891), Case B, no. 23. Rebacked. Size: 310 × 225 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 309 × 208 mm. A cancelled early inscription on Aa1r. Occasional notes, correcting the text, in an early hand in black ink. Provenance: Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846-1911); purchased at a sale, lot 293, for £2. 2. 0; slip from sale catalogue attached to the upper cover. Presented by Mrs Buchanan in 1941. SHELFMARK: Buchanan c.24.