Imprint from Latin and Greek colophons (leaf [Chi][Chi]7v); "Venetiis in domo Aldi Mense Ianuario MIIID." The Greek colophon wrongly gives the date as '1447'.
Printed in Manutius's types 1:146Gr and 2:114R.
Collation: aa[alpha][alpha]-zz[psi][psi]¹⁰ &&[omega][omega]¹⁰ [Alpha][Alpha]-[Pi][Pi]¹⁰ [Rho][Rho]¹¹⁽¹⁺¹⁰⁾ [Sigma][Sigma]-[Psi][Psi]¹⁰ [Chi][Chi]⁸ [dotted X][dotted X]⁸: 467 leaves, leaf [Chi][Chi]8 blank.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
Edited by Aldo Manuzio and Franciscus Caballus.
Woodcut headpieces and initials.
Many errors in foliation.
Includes 19 tracts of Aristotle (some not genuine), and 5 of Theophrastus.
A line of text omitted at the foot of leaf [kappa][kappa]10v has been printed on a separate slip and pasted in, only extant in BMC copy IB.24432.
Quire [Rho][Rho] consists of a 10-leaf quire signed [Rho][Rho], around which has been wrapped a bifolium signed [Rho][Rho], which supplies (on leaf [Rho][Rho]1r only) text inadvertently omitted, see BMC V 555.
Chronologically the second of the five volumes of Aristotle issued by Aldus Manutius, but considered by him to follow the third, his Physica of February 1497, see Walsh 2643.
Manutius issued the entire Opera in five parts, dated: I) Organon, 1 Nov. 1495 (PML 1126/ChL 989); II) Physica, Feb. 1497 (PML 1127/ChL 997, PML 19117/ChL 997 c. 2); III) De animalibus, 29 Jan. 1497 (PML 1128/ChL 995); IV) Theophrastus, De historia plantarum, 1 June 1497 (PML 1129-1130/ChL 998, PML 34896/ChL 998 c. 2, pt. 1 only); V) Ethica ad Nicomachum, June 1498 (PML 1131/ChL 1008).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.1 cm.
PML copy with spurious De animalibus, Book X (quire [dotted X][dotted X]⁸) bound after leaf pp[omicron][omicron]5v (end of Book IX of Historia animalium), rather than after colophon as GW, BMC, and Bod-inc.
Aristotelis Opera Graece
Hand decoration: No rubrication necessary. Annotations: No marginal notations.