Metaphysica Auice[n]ne siue eius prima philosophia.

Accession number:

PML 128846.1

Author:

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Published:

Venetiis : p[er] Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] expensis viri Ieronymi Dura[n]ti, 1495. die. 26. Martii [26 March 1495]

Description:

[42] leaves ; fol

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Harper C-1 Fund, 2002.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf i5v): "Explicit metaphysica Avice[n]ne sive eius p[rima] ph[ilosoph]ia optime Castigata per Revere[n]du[m] sacre theologie bachalariu[m] fratre[m] Fre[n]ciscu[m] de macerata ordinis mino[rum] [et] p[er] excelle[n]tissimu[m] atriu[m] doctore[m] d[omi]n[u]m Antoniu[m] fracha[n]tianu[m] vicentinu[m] ph[ilosoph]iam legente[m] in gymnasio patavino. Imp[re]ssa Venetiis p[er] Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] expensis viri Ieronymi Dura[n]ti. a[n]no D[omi]ni. 1495. die. 26. Martii."
Printed in Venetus's types 1:73G and 2:155G.
Signatures: a-b⁶ c-h⁴ i⁶: 42 leaves, leaf i6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Franciscus de Macerata and Antonius Fracantianus.
Printed in two columns with spaces and guide letters for initials.
Printer's device at foot of leaf i5v.
Three line incipit printed in red on leaf a2r: "Incipit liber Auice[n]ne de ph[ilosoph]ia p[rim]a siue sci[enti]a diuina. Cap[itu]l[u]m primu[m] de inquisitione subiecti prime ph[ilosoph]ie ad hoc vt ostendatur ipsa esse de numero scientiarum."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 20.1 cm.

Binding:

17th-century English (Oxford?) calf with gilt center stamp, over paper boards (29.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; red edges.

Variant Title:

Metaphysica Avicenne sive eius prima philosophia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few marginal notations (by Digby?).

Provenance:

Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), inscription: "Vacate et videte Kenelme Digby" (leaf a1r); his sale, Paris, 1665, p. 9, where the bulk of the library was purchased by George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612-1677), and resold London, 19 April 1680, p. 37; Frank & William Kerslake, booksellers, cat. no. 13, Sept. 1874, no. 56; Capt. F.C. Brooke, purchased from Kerslake for £1.2.6 (catalogue and invoice in PML dept. file); Kenneth Garth Huston, bookplate (front pastedown) J.R. Ritman, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, bookplate (front pastedown); Ritman sale, Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 2001, lot 23; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Harper C-1 Fund, 2002.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books