Tade enestin en tēde biblō = Haec Aristotelis uolumina in hoc libro impressa continentur.

Accession number: 
PML 1131
Author: 
Aristotle.
Published: 
Venetiis : Apud Aldum, M. IID. Mense iunio [i.e. June 1498]
Description: 
209, [13], 210-316, [1] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Chronologically the fifth of the five volumes of Aristotle issued by Aldo Manuzio, but considered by him to form the fourth.
Collation: 4[alpha]-4[iota]¹⁰ 4[kappa]⁴; 4[lambda]-4[phi]¹⁰ 4[chi]⁶; 4[psi]¹² 4[omega]¹⁰ 4[Alpha]-4[Beta]¹⁰ 4[Gamma]⁶ 4[Delta]-4[Iota]¹⁰ 4[Kappa]¹²: 330 leaves, leaves 4[kappa]4 and 4[chi]6 blank.
Edited, with prefatory letter, by Aldo Manuzio.
Imprint from colophon (leaf 4[Kappa]12r).
In the preface, "Aldus remarks that he has printed only a fragment of the Oeconomica, having been unable to obtain a text of the part translated by Aretinus ... The Oeconomica (quire 4[psi]) are the only section of the book without foliation, except that the last leaf is apparently numbered 19," see BMC.
Many errors in foliation.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 21.2 cm
Printed in Manutius's types 1:146Gr, 2:114R, and 7:114Gk.
Woodcut headpieces and initials.

Binding: 
16th-century French (Paris) gold tooled calf over paper boards (31 x 21.8 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Claude de Picques (ca. 1501-1574/78; reliure du roi, 1555-74/78); repaired by Sanford and Clarke (condition report on inside cover of PML 1126 box). Plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands; gilt edges. 14th/15th-century French manuscript waste used as spine reinforcement, partially visible under pastedowns.
Variant Title: 

Aristotelis Opera Graece

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication necessary. Annotations: No marginal notations.

Provenance: 
Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) (cited in Heber catalogue), Scaliger sale, Leyden, 11 March 1609, p. 10; Gerard Meerman (1722-1771) and Johann Meerman (1753-1815), Bibliotheca Meermanniana sale, The Hague, 1824, p. 216, no. 466; Richard Heber (1773-1833), Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Sotheby's, Part I, 10 April 1834, lot 503, purchased by Payne and Foss; Mr. Miller of Lincoln's Inn (maybe William Henry Miller (d. 1848) or John Miller (d. 1841), see Acheson note); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), bibliographical note citing earlier provenance (formerly in box with PML 1126, now in departmental file), purchased from Bohn, entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), bookplate (front pastedown, PML 1126), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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