Ethica ad Nicomachum

Accession number:

PML 39

Author:

Aristotle.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [before 10 April 1469]

Description:

[198] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett Collection, 1902.

Notes:

Printed in Mentelin's type 92b, leaded to 112 (BMC).
Cambridge UL copy with purchase inscription of 10 April 1469 (ISTC).
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸; 5-7¹⁰ 8¹² 9¹⁰; 10-13¹⁰; 14⁸ 15⁶; 16-19¹⁰ 20-21⁸]: 198 leaves, [4]/8 and [13]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
In three parts: Ethica, Politica, and Oeconomica.
Includes: Aristotle, Politica (leaves [10]/1-[20]/7r); Aristotle, Oeconomica, translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus(leaves [20]/8r-[21]/5v); Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Epistola ad dominos Senenses (leaves [21]/6v-8v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1 x 20.8 cm.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin, hinges cracking; repaired and rebacked by Duprez Lahey.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Fifteenth-century manuscript signatures, some trimmed and marginal annotations in several hands.
Hand decoration: Italian, white vine illuminated initial on leaf [1]/1r, red lombards.

Provenance:

Milan, Sancta Maria Incoronata, inscription: Sotte Ma[r]ie i[n]coronate m[edio]l[an]i. Ad usum fra[tre]m Valeriani de m[edio]l[an]o, fr[atrem] Tade[o] et Yporegia. V. S.; William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books