Gaietanus super libros de auima [sic]. Eiusde[m] questiones de sensu agente : & de sensibilibus communibus: ac de intellectu. Ite[m] de substa[n]tia orbis Joa[n]nis de gandano cum questionibus eiusdem.

Accession number: 
PML 42970
Author: 
Tiene, Gaetano, 1387-approximately 1462.
Published: 
[Venice] : Finis imposit[us] est Impe[n]sa nobilis viri d[omi]ni Octaviani Scoti Civis Modoetie[n]sis per Bonetu[m] Locatellu[m] Bergomensem, decimo kal[endas] Januarias 1493 [23 December 1493].
Description: 
[2], 112, [2] leaves : Initials, diagrams, device (woodcuts) ; 33 x 22 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Gift of Henry Fletcher, 1952.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf A1r).
Imprints from colophon (leaf T5r): Subtilissimis q[uesti]onibus in libellum [com]mentatoris de sub[tanti]a orbis cu[m] expositione text[us] eiusde[m] libelli a solertissimo phy[losophi]ce veritatis i[n]dagatore Joa[n]ne de gandauo editis: quas unacu[m] libris de a[n]i[m]a Aristotelis cu[m] expositione clarissimi doctoris d[omi]ni Gaetani : cu[m] q[uesti]onibus eiusd[em] de sensu age[n]te & de p[er]petuitate i[n]tellect[us] dilige[n]tissime correxeru[n]t venera[n]dissimi viri .[videlicet]. d[omi]n[u]s magister Secu[n]dus Contaren[us] Venet[us] sacre theologie p[ro]fessor & magister studij [con]ve[n]tus fratr[um] heremitar[um] : fraterq[ue] Paul[us] Panormita : filij veri patris fratrum Heremitar[um] Doctoris s[an]cte matris ecclesie Augustinis Thagaste[n]sis : Finis imposit[us] est Impe[n]sa nobilis viri d[omi]ni Octaviani Scoti Civis Modoetie[n]sis per Bonetu[m] Locatellu[m] Bergomensem decimo kal[endas] Januarias 1493.
Printed in Locatellus's types 2:130G, 4:92G, 12:73/74G, and 1:74G.
Collation: [1]² A-T⁶: 116 leaves, leaf T6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by the Augustinian Hermits Secundus Contarenus and Paulus Panormita.
Woodcut initials throughout, diagrams, and Scotus/Locatellus device A on leaf T5 verso. For Scotus/Locatellus device A, see BM 15th cent., V, 436.
The Latin translations of Aristoteles's and Averroës's texts are typographically distinguished from the commentaries respectively by Gaietanus de Thienis and Johannes de Janduno.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.4x 21 cm.

Binding: 
Early 16th-century Italian blind-tooled half leather over beech boards (33 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands. 4 clasps, missing.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Expositio super libros De anima Aristotelis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout Liber I, then only a few after that. Early inscription: "Justitia d[icitu]r [?] iuris statio / prudentia d[icitu]r [?] procul vidustie" (rear fly verso).

Provenance: 
Francesco Perrella, Naples, dealer sticker (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Henry Fletcher, Jan. 1952.
Classification: 
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