Burleus super octo libros physicorum
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Burleus super octo libros physicorum
Other titles: Super octo libros physicorum; Expositio in Aristotelis Physica
Classmark: BC Incunabula/ARI
Creator(s): Burlaeus, Gualterus (1275-1345?)
Additional creator(s): Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) (Other); Vernia, Nicoletto (1420-1499) (Editor); Scotto, Ottaviano (1498) (Publisher); Locatelli, Boneto (1486-1523) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Aristotle; Aristotle; Vernia, Nicoletto; Scotto, Ottaviano; Locatelli, Boneto; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Impressa arte & diligentia Boneti locatelli bergomensis. Su[m]tib[us] v[er]o [et] expensis Nobilis viri Octauiani scoti modoetiensis; Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus
Publication city: Uenitijs [Venice]
Date(s): Anno salutis nonagesimop[ri]mo supra millesimum [et] quadringe[n]tesimu[m]. Quarto nnas dece[m]bris. [2 December 1491]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [234] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39354
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007726459705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁶ l-z8 [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ AA-BB⁸ CC-DD⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on DD4v reads: Impressa arte [et] diligentia Boneti locatelli bergome[n]sis. Su[m]tib[us] v[er]o [et] expensis Nobilis viri Octauiani scoti modoetiensis... Venetijs. Anno salutis nonagesimop[ri]mo supra millesimum [et] quadreinge[n]tesimu[m]. Quarto nonas dece[m]bris.
Uniform title in Goff reads: Exposito in Aristotelis Physica.
Edited by Nicoletto Vernia.
Includes Latin translation of Aristotle's Physica.
Printed in two columns with 68 lines to a full column.
Ornamental woodcut initials.
Some initial spaces with guide-letters.
Woodcut printer's mark on DD6r.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib01305000.
Indexed in: Goff B-1305; Hain *4139; Pellechet 3078; GKW 5777 (first version of f.4a).
Features
Some ink manuscript underlining and marginal annotations in an early hand, cropped.
Bindings
Twentieth-century binding of full red goatskin by Vignal. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of fillets with a small leaf-shaped ornament at each corner. In the centre is an elaborate lozenge-shaped design of stylised foliage. The turn-ins are also blind-tooled with an intricate pattern of scrolls. The spine has five raised bands and each of the six panels is blind-tooled with double fillets with a small leaf-shaped ornament at each corner. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Aristoteles - Physica - Burlei Commentaria. Watermark on the title page, possibly of a sceptre. Size: 325 x 218mm. Leaf size: 319 x 211mm.
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.
Access and usage
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