Expositio preclarissimi atque eximii artium ac medicine doctoris Petri de Ebano Papauini in librum problematum Aristotelis feliciter incipit
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Type of record: Book
Title: Expositio preclarissimi atque eximii artium ac medicine doctoris Petri de Ebano Papauini in librum problematum Aristotelis feliciter incipit
Other titles: Expositio problematum Aristotelis
Classmark: BC Incunabula/ARI
Creator(s): Petrus de Abano (1250-1315)
Additional creator(s): Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) (Other); Herbort, Johann (1484) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Aristotle; Aristotle; Herbort, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Arte hac impensa Joannis herbort Alemani; Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt
Publication city: [Venice]
Date(s): Anno.M.cccc.lxxxii.die.xxva.Februarii. [25 February 1482]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [312] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39355
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007726829705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*²] a-z⁸ A-Q⁸.
Colophon on Q6 reads: Explicit expositio succinta problematum Aristo. quam Petrus edidit Paduanus: ea nullo prius interpretante: incepta quidem Parisius: et laudabiliter Padue terminata.arte hac impensa Joannis herbort Alemani: qui no[n] solum summam cura[m] adhibet ut sint hec sua suaue quoq[ue] sine vicio: verum ut laute sint etiam elaborata. Anno.M.cccc.lxxxii.die.xxv.Februarii.
Text printed in two columns with 56 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, mostly without guide-letters.
Leavs [1], [311] and [312] are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01044400.
Indexed in: Hain *17; BMC V 303.
Features
Headlines are supplied in ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, from a2r to g1r.
Leaf numbers have been supplied in pencil manuscript, nineteenth- or twentieth-century, to the lower left of versos.
The initial on a2r is decorated by hand, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, with a pattern of blue and green foliage within a square of red tracery. Foliage in red, green and blue extends down the inner margin and along the top of the text to form a partial border.
Major initials supplied in red.
Paragraph markers, capital strokes and underlinings in red.
Staining to the upper and lower covers, probably water damage.
This copy contains three leaves of the table missing from that in the British Museum.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding of full dark brown calf over wooden boards, rebacked. The upper cover is blind-tooled with a border and frame of triple fillets containing alternating motifs of a rose and a scroll containing the word Maria. The central panel is decorated with diagonal triple fillets containing tools of double-headed eagles with a crown above, fleurs-du-lys, stylised foliage and single flowers. The lower cover is blind-tooled with a border of triple fillets and diagonal triple fillets containing tools of double-headed eagles with a crown above, fleurs-de-lys, stylised foliage and single flowers. There is evidence of two clasps on the upper and lower covers with the remains of nails on the upper board. Written on the head-edge in early ink manuscript are the words: Eban' in pble Aristot. There are repairs to the lower cover at the fore-edge and head-edge. The new spine is of brown goatskin and has four raised bands with double fillets blind-tooled at
either side. Gold-tooled in the second panel is the name: Aristotle. Gold-tooled in the fourth panel is the date: 1482. A watermark of a bull's head surmounted by a snake on a cross can be identified on the first leaf. Size: 324 x 232mm. Leaf size: 312 x 210mm.
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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