Tabula maxime proficua terminorum existentiu[m] in problematibus Aristotelis.

Accession number:

PML 33108

Uniform title:

Problemata Aristotelis.

Published:

[Mantua] : per me Paulum Iohannis de Puzpach, sub anno iubilei M°. CCCC°. Lxxv° [1475].

Description:

[300] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1936.

Notes:

Entered under Petrus de Abano in Goff.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Tabula maxime proficua terminorum existentiu[m] in problematibus Aristotelis. In qua per.par. intelligitur piarticula [sic] cum suo numero. Et per.pro. intelligit[ur] problema cum suo numero.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [34]/8v: Et impressa sub diuo Marchione Lodouico Mantue secu[n]do. p[er] me Paulu[m] Ioha[n]nis de Puzpach. Almanu[m] Magontinensis dyocesis sub anno iubilei M°. CCCC°. Lxxv°. Cuius utilitas erit omni creature in uuiuerso orbe que apponet huic operi studium su[m]ma cum diligentia.
Printed in Paulus de Butzbach's types 2:78G and 3:104G.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Translated by Bartholomaeus de Messana. Commentary by Petrus de Abano. Edited by Stephanus Illarius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.5 x 28 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [34]/10 (blank).

Binding:

18th-century(?) Italian parchment over stiff paper boards (42.5 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Problematibus Aristotelis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contempoary illumination attributed to Giovanni Vendramin, including 'alla antiqua panel and coats of arms (leaf [2]/2r); illuminated initials with foliate decoration; alternating red and blue initials with penwork decoration (some similar to the penwork decoration on the minor initials by Benedetto Bordon in Aristotle's Opera, PML 21194-95) and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout, mainly highlighting keywords in text.

Provenance:

Marriage armorial including the Della Torre family of Venice (azure a tower argent), paired with the Cozazza or Minotta family of Venice (bendy of six gules and or), also used by the Curatolo family of Padua, suppourted by a crowned eagle (a motif typically used by Federico de Montefeltro after he became Duke of Urbino in 1474, see Armstrong, Petrarch's Famous Men, p. 52) (leaf [2]/2r); Charles Carmichael Lacaita (1853-1933) and Mary Annabel Lacaita (d. 1924), bookplate: "Caroli ac Mariae Lacaitae filiorvmqve. Selham. Sussex." (front pastedown), their sale, Sotheby's, 20 July 1936, lot 1; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at the Lacaita sale via Maggs Bros., Aug. 1936.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books