Rhetorica : Alfarabius : Declaratio compendiosa super libris rhetoricorum Aristotelis. Commentarium super Poetica Aristotelis
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Type of record: Book
Title: Rhetorica : Alfarabius : Declaratio compendiosa super libris rhetoricorum Aristotelis. Commentarium super Poetica Aristotelis
Other titles: Rhetorica
Classmark: BC Incunabula/CIC
Creator(s): Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)
Additional creator(s): Averroes (1126-1198) (Other); Alemanus, Hermanus (Other); Fārābī (Other); Petri, Philipo di (1472-1482) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Averroes; Alemanus, Hermanus; Fārābī; Petri, Philipo di; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per magistru[m] Philipum Venetu[m]; Filippo di Pietro
Publication city: Venetiis impressu[m] [Venice]
Date(s): Anno salutis Millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo p[ri]mo uigesimo secundo mensis Iunii. [22 June 1481]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [64] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374062
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008130509705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A10 a-f8 g6.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on g6v reads: Venetiis impressu[m] per magistru[m] Philipum Venetu[m]: Anno salutis Millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo p[ri]mo uigesimo secundo mensis Iunii.
Averroes' commentary on Aristole's "Poetica" translated from Arabic into Greek by Hermannus Alemanus begins on f1r.
Printed in two columns with 41 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
The first leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01046000.
Indexed in: Goff A-1046.
Features
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century.
Leaf numbers supplied in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century, at the top right of rectos.
This copy is wanting the blank leaf A1.
Some water damage and cockling. The bottom right-hand corners have become softened and are fragile.
Bindings
Early twentieth-century binding of half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands. Blind-tooled in black in the second panel are the words: Cicero Aristoteles. Blind-tooled in black in the third panel is the date: 1481. The fourth panel bears the Brotherton Collection stamp in black. Size: 313 x 227mm. Leaf size: 301 x 213mm.
Bound with one other publication. Volume contents: 1. Cicero, M. T: De inventione sive rhetorica vetus, 1481. -- 2. Aristotle: Rhetorica, 1481.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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