Simplikiou megalou didaskalou Hypomnēma eis tas deka katēgorias tou Aristotelous.

Accession number: 
PML 37687
Author: 
Simplicius, of Cilicia.
Published: 
[Venice] : [Zacharias Kalliergēs for Nikolaos Vlastos], [26 October 1499]
Description: 
[168] leaves ; 33 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1943. NNPM
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf [Alpha]1r).
Colophon (leaf [Phi]5v): ... entypōthen ... en enetiais. analōmasi men ... Nikolau Vlastou tou Krētos. ponō de kai dexiotēti, Zachariou Kalliergou tou Krētos. tōn logiōn andrōn charin, kai logōn hellēnikōn ephiemen. Etei tō apo tēs Christou gennēseōs, Chiliostō, tetrakosiostō, enenēkostō ennatō. Pyanepsiōnos, pemptē phthinontos.
Printed in Kallierges's type 1:120/121Gk.
Signatures: [Alpha]¹⁰ [Beta]-[Upsilon]⁸ [Phi]⁶: 168 leaves.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
Begins (leaf [Alpha]2r): Scholia eis tas Aristotelous Katēgorias, apophōnēs Simplikiou didaskalou megalou.
Title-page, headings, and woodcut headpieces (Husung 134) and initials printed in red.
Woodcut device (printed in red) of Nikolaus Vlastos (Husung 133) on title-page, woodcut device of Kalliergēs (Husung 176) on leaf [Phi]6r, woodcut diagrams in text.
Printed foliation to leaf "23" ([Gamma]3).
Register (leaf [Phi]6r).
In some copies the headpiece on leaf [Alpha]2r is printed in gold. Cf. BM 15th cent.
The Greek date is rendered incorrectly as 27 Oct. in Goff and BMC.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.8 x 21.3 cm., trimmed. NNPM

Binding: 
19th-century French blind- and gilt-tooled blue, straight-grained morocco over paper boards (33 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Simier. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges. NNPM
Variant Title: 

Hypomnēma eis tas deka katēgorias tou Aristotelous

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. NNPM

Provenance: 
Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel, no. 481 (front fly leaf); his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 481 to Quaritch for 33 francs; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: VR [nu rho?], purchased May 1896 (front endleaf 2 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1603 to Lelden for £23.10; Rowland Thomas Baring, earl of Cromer (1877-1953), engraved armorial bookplate, signed: J.F. Badeley, 1912 (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 18 June 1934; unidentified (Cromer?) shelf marks: n°. 75 and n°. 50 (front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from W.H. Schab, March 1943. NNPM
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books