tiv00258000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00258000

Bod-inc Id:

V-124

Headings:

Versor, Johannes Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis (cum textu).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Questiones magistri Johannis Versoris super metaphisicam Arestotelis cum textu eiusdem'.
2. a2r Versor, Johannes: Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium primi libri metaphisice Arestotelis queritur primo utrum ista scientia (que metaphisica dicitur) . . .’ See Lohr (1971), 290-9, no. 3.
3. a3r Aristoteles: Metaphysica. Incipit: ‘[O]mnes homines natura scire desiderant. Signum autem est sensuum dilectio . . .’ See A‑386.
4. v5v [Table of contents.] ‘Registrum continens questiones et dubitationes'.

Imprint:

[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1494]. Folio. As dated by D. E. Rhodes, ‘Two Fifteenth-Century Editions of Johannes Versor', Gb Jb (1970), 93-6, repr. in Dennis E. Rhodes, Studies in Early European Printing and Book Collecting (London, 1983), 155-8, at 157-8; BSB‑Ink dates [not after 1 Nov. 1494]. Sheppard dates [1489-1494].

Collation:

a–i⁶ k⁴ l–v⁶. Leaf a2 signed a1, etc. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00258000 HC *16051; Goff V‑258; BMC I 280; Pr 1389; BSB‑Ink V‑176; Rhodes 1804; Sack, Freiburg, 3658; Sheppard 1006; Voulliéme, Köln, 1218. LCN: 14696348

Copies:

1. V-124(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter parchment over sprinkled paper. Manuscript title and imprint information at the head of the spine. Red-edged leaves. Identical binding to V‑122. Size: 295 × 216 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 287 × 202 mm. Some marginal notes throughout, mainly providing corrections to and structuring the text, extracting key words, in an early German hand, in brown and occasionally red ink. Also a few pointing hands. Initials are supplied in red, sometimes with reserved white decoration; paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. Provenance: Purchased from M. Spirgatis, Catalogue 19, no. 84, on 17 Jan. 1894, for 4 Marks; see Library Bills. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. G3.1491.2.