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Auctoritates Aristotelis, Senece, Boetii, Platonis, Apulei, Affricani, Empedoclis, Porphirii, et Gilberti Poritani.

Accession number
PML 79752.6
Object title

Auctoritates Aristotelis, Senece, Boetii, Platonis, Apulei, Affricani, Empedoclis, Porphirii, et Gilberti Poritani.

Published

Impresse Parisiis : per Felicem Baligault[, for Denis Roce and Durand Gerlier], .M. quinguagesimo sole vero Julii claudente decimamoctavam [18 July 1500].

Description

i-lxviii leaves ; 14.5 cm (8vo)

Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1988.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with Roce's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf i4r: Expliciunt auctoritates Aristotelis, Senece, Boetii Platonis, Apulei, affricani, Empedoclis, Porphirii et Gilberti porritani. Impresse parisiis per felicem baligault vicis parisiensis i[n]mo[n]te sancte genouefe ad inter signe divi stephani prima concure[n]te causa miro caractere exaravit anno imme[n]se reparat[i]o[n]is .M. quinguagesimo sole vero iulii claudente decimamoctavam.
Durand Gerlier's device, leaf i4v.
Printed in Baligault's type 2:64G.
Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁴: 68 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.8 x 9 cm.
Binding
16th-century French quarter paper over pasteboard (14.5 x 10 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Auctoritates Aristotelis et aliorum philosophorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few NB marks and underlining in text.
Provenance
Champlitte (Haute-Saône), Capuchins, inscription: "Ad usum Cap. Conventus Champlet" (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis); C[laude?]. Signerre, signatures, late-16th century (leaves a1r and t8v of Diaeta saluts, leaf a1r of De summo bono, and leaf a1r of De venerabili sacramento), who gave the volume to: Blasius Alteriet of Percey-le-Grand (Haute-Saône), inscriptions (leaf t8v of Diaeta salutis and leaf m8v of De summo bono); Antoine Alteriet, inscription: "Anthoine Alt[eriet]," abraded (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis) and possibly monogram: AA (leaf i4v of Auctoritates Aristotelis); unidentified inscription (shelf mark?): 155a (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis); unidentified book label, removed (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, July 1988.
Classification
Century
Department