Accession number
PML 34889.4
Creator
Aristotle.
Object title
[De generatione et corruptione].
Published
Impresse Patavii : Laurentii Canozii Lendenariensis, Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.iiii. [et]. Lxx. quatrodecimo kalendas Julii [18 June 1474]
Description
[26] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1938.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [3]/8r: Nove tra[n]slationi libroru[m] de generatione [et] corruptione ab Averoi Cordube[n]si co[m]mentate: Summi philosophi Aristotel[is] ex Stragyra gretie oppido Nicomachi Medicine artis p[ro]fessoris filii: deo optimo maxi[m]oq[ue] favente finis i[m]positus e[st]. Opera vero: atq[ue] ingenio Laurentii Canozii Lendenariensis. Impresse Patavii Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.iiii. [et]. Lxx. quatrodecimo kalendas Julii.
For variant in colophon see CIBN A-520.
Printed in Canozi's types 1:91/92G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-3⁸]: 26 leaves.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 43.5 x 27.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [3]/8r: Nove tra[n]slationi libroru[m] de generatione [et] corruptione ab Averoi Cordube[n]si co[m]mentate: Summi philosophi Aristotel[is] ex Stragyra gretie oppido Nicomachi Medicine artis p[ro]fessoris filii: deo optimo maxi[m]oq[ue] favente finis i[m]positus e[st]. Opera vero: atq[ue] ingenio Laurentii Canozii Lendenariensis. Impresse Patavii Anno Christi optimi .M.cccc.iiii. [et]. Lxx. quatrodecimo kalendas Julii.
For variant in colophon see CIBN A-520.
Printed in Canozi's types 1:91/92G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-3⁸]: 26 leaves.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 43.5 x 27.5 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter red goatskin, with red cloth sides, over paper boards (45 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, preserving previous endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary northern Italian/Bologna illuminated foliate initials, alternating red and blue rubrication, running headlines (with triangular puncti), and paragraph marks (C-type, many with fleur-de-lis finials). Commentaries numbered in margin. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), signature and annotations, 2 May 1799 (front endleaf 3 recto), purchased at "Egerton's sale" for £17.17.0, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 191 for £13.0.0; Charles Walker Clark (1871-1933), of San Mateo, CA, collection sold by Celia Tobin (his ex-wife) through Rosenbach and Fleming; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach Co., April 1938.
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