Accession number
PML 27536
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title
Subtilissimi doctoris sancti Thome de Aquino clarissima interpretatio in methaphisicam Aristotilis.
Published
Correctum [et] impressum Papie : per magistrum franciscum de girardenghis, Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxx. die .xv. Octobris [15 October 1480].
Description
154 unnumbered leaves, the first blank ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a1r [i.e. a2r].
Imprint from colophon, leaf u8r: Explicit subtilissima interpretatio methaphisice Aristotolis secundum sanctum thoma[m] de Aquino ordinis predicatoru[m] totius fontem ph[ilosoph]ice ac theologice veritatis attentissime correctum [et] impressum Papie per magistrum franciscum de girardenghis Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxx. die .xv. Octobris.
Printed in Girardengus's types 1:69G and 2:160G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸ o-s⁶ t¹⁰ u⁸: 154 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
2 columns, 56 lines. Spaces for initials, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf u8r: Explicit subtilissima interpretatio methaphisice Aristotolis secundum sanctum thoma[m] de Aquino ordinis predicatoru[m] totius fontem ph[ilosoph]ice ac theologice veritatis attentissime correctum [et] impressum Papie per magistrum franciscum de girardenghis Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxx. die .xv. Octobris.
Printed in Girardengus's types 1:69G and 2:160G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸ o-s⁶ t¹⁰ u⁸: 154 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
2 columns, 56 lines. Spaces for initials, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20 cm.
Binding
Later quarter sheep(?) over original bevelled beech boards (29 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Manuscript waste quire guards, perhaps 12th-century manuscript. 1 clasp.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Interpretatio in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary German alternating red and blue lombards, red paragraph marks and L-brackets. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified "New College" inscription: "Novu[m] collegiu[m]," 16th/17th century(?) (leaf a1r); unidentified shelf mark: P.IV.36 (on turn in); unidentified (Harper?) dealer catalogue description (inside front cover); Pierpont Morgan Library, purhcased from Lathrop C. Harper, July 1930.
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