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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: De animalibus (1476)
Title: [De animalibus]
Imprint: Venice: Per Iohannem de Colonia soci uq; eius Iohann e M athen de Gherretz e, 1476.
Comments and Notes: Listed in ISTC as being in the Burndy Library. Uniform title from Goff; imprint from colophon. The standard collection under this title of the three works Historia animalium, De animalium partibus, and De generatione animalium. Translated by De Gaza. Editio princeps. Signatures: a-b10 c-d8 e-k8/10 l-t10 u8 x10 2a-2d10 2e8 2f6; leaf a3 signed a2, r on leaf r2 set upside down. A few letters lost in holes on the last 4 leaves; marginalia affected by trimming. First and last blank leaves wanting.
Smithsonian Call Number: QL41 .A717 L1476
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: Physics (1479)
Title: [Physica]
Imprint: Augsburg: Impressus per Ambrosim Keller, 1479 feria secunda ante festum Sancti Martini [8 Nov.]
Comments and Notes: Title from Goff; imprint from colophon. Volume 4 only of a 5-volume set. Complete set in four parts dated: I) 15 Sept. 1479; II) 13 Oct. 1479; III) 21 Oct. 1479; IV) 8 Nov. 1479. Translated by Johannes Argyrophilus. First leaf blank. First leaf wanting; fourth and final leaves mounted. Duplicate of second gathering (8 leaves) bound in. Ms. initials (one in blue); rubricated; marginalia. Book plate: Nathan Comfort Starr. Memorial book plate for T.H.T. Hopkins, recto front free endpaper, signed Geo. E. Underhill. Late 19th century gold-stamped red leather binding with Hopkins supralibros.
Smithsonian Call Number: PA3893 .P3 L1479
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A-0960 IV
 
 
 
 

Author: Aristotle
Short Title: Opera. Latin (1489)
Title: Omnia Aris. opera / c u c om eto Auerrois.
Imprint: Venice: Per Bernardinum de Tridino de Monteferato, 1489.
Comments and Notes: Title and imprint from colophon. Each volume and part has its own colophon, 16 in all; the last one reads: Omnia Aris. opera cu Cometo Auerrois. Impressa Venetijs… per Bernardinum de Tridino de Monteferato. Anno a Natali Cristiano. M. cccc.lxxxviiij. Nonis Septembribus… Printed in double columns with commentary surrounding the text. In most instances the translation of the text which is in numbered sections is the "new" translation from the Arabic; the unnumbered is directly from the Greek. The works on logic are the translation by Boethius; the Ethica, Politica and Economica are translated by Leonard de Arezzo and also include his commentary. Red printer's mark beside colophon, v. 5; second leaf of v. 1 and v. 2 printed in red and black. Auerrois Cordubensis de substantia orbis liber: leaves T verso - T recto, v.2. Gilbert Porretani Aristotelici Liber sex principiorum cum Magni Alberti commento viri etati sua doctissimi feliciter: leaves dd -ee , v. 4. Capital spaces with guideletters. Leaf A v. 2, (blank) wanting; gathering 3l and 3m, v. 5, misbound mixed together.
Smithsonian Call Number: PA3895 .A3 L1489
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: Meteorologica (1491)
Title: [Meteorologica : With the commentary, De reactione and De intensione et remissione formarum of Gaietanus de Thienis. Edited by Franciscus de Macerata and Petrus Angelus de Monte Ulmi]
Imprint: Venice: Ipressa cura ... Ioannis de Foriiuio [et] Gregorij fratrum, 1491 die 22 mensis Octobris.
Comments and Notes: Uniform title from Goff; imprint from colophon. Implicit, p. [3]: Aristoteles Stagirite Metheororum liber primum : cum c omentarijs Gaietani de Tienis. Nuper summa cum diligentia emendatis Page [154] (colophon): Expliciunt Comentaria super quattuor libros metheorou Aristotelis cu textu eiusdem: [et] duobus tractatibus de re actione: et intesioe [et] remissioe formaru dni Gaetai de tienis vincentini arctium [et] medicine doctoris clarissimi: suma cu diligentia castigata [et] emendata per sacre theologie bachalarios fratrem Franciscum de macerara [et] fratrem Petrum angelu de monte vlmi ordinis minoru. Venetijs ipressa cura solertissimo [rum] viroru Ioannis de foriiuio [et] Gregorij fratrum Anno dni. M.cccc.lxxxj. die xxij. Mensis octobris. Laus deo; p. [155]: printers' device. Signatures: a-b8 c-l6 m8. Page 3 printed in red and black. Printed in double columns; initial spaces, with guide letters. First (blank) leaf wanting; final leaf mounted. Contemporary (?) marginalia and supplied ms. t.p.
Smithsonian Call Number: QC859 .A716 L1491
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: Parva naturalia (1493)
Title: In presenti volumine lector subscripta reperies Opuscula ph[ilosoph]o[rum] pri[n]cipis Aristotelis per diuini Thome Aquinatis co[m]mentaria co[m]pendiose exposita ...
Imprint: Padua: Per Hieronimum de Durantis, anno D[omi]ni 1493 die xxiiii mensis May.
Comments and Notes: Translated from the Greek; edited by Onofrius de Funtania. Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf q7 verso). Leaves printed on both sides; 55 lines of text and 65 lines of commentary per page. Signatures: a8 b-p6 q8. Text in double columns. Guide-letters. Register on leaf q8 recto. Some old ms. annotations. Bookplate: Burndy Library … gift of Bern Dibner. Bookseller's ticket: Garisenda Antiquariato … Bologna, Italy. Bound in modern full vellum over paper boards; gilt-tooled binder's label, which reads: Parva Natural. Aristot.
Smithsonian Call Number: BF110 .A717 1493
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris excerptae (1493)
Title: Prepositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris philosophie, moralis, naturalis, & prime necn o dialectice, rhetorie, & poetic�, dilig etissime excerpte : & ad certa rer u capita pulcherimo ordine per tabellam additam redacte.
Imprint: Venice: Per Ioannem & Gregorium de Gregoriis, 1493 die 3 Augusti.
Comments and Notes: ISTC assigned to Ferrariis, Theophilus de. ISTC lists this as being in the Burndy Library but not Smdl. Contains extracts from Latin translations of Aristotle by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, etc. The translation of De mirabilibus auscultationibus by Antonius Beccaria is given entire (ff.113-128v). Uniform title from Goff; imprint from colophon. Compiled by T. de Ferrariis. A. Calcedonius named as publisher on leaf 258 verso. Disbound but cords and sewing intact; in case with spine title: Aristoteles Philosphia moralis et naturalis. Signatures: A-G8 a-z8 &8 A-M8. Text printed in red and black with red headlines. Incipit on leaf a1 recto. Numerous errors in foliation with many 2s and 7s printed upside down; nos. 65-94 repeated in the foliation, no. 235 omitted. Leaves 51, 53, 58, 60, 69, 80, 94, 76, 82, 101, 102, 104, 131, 137, 154, 158, 173, 174, 175, 210, 213, 215, 221, 223, 226, 230, 232, 249, 254, and 256 misnumbered 53, 51, 57, 56, 71, 78, 93, 82, 76, 259, 257, 255, 137, 131, 134, 138, 171, 173, 177, 208, 211, 217, 219, 225, 262, 228, 234, 246, 259, and 253 respectively. Final leaf blank. Index by B. Soncinas: leaves [4]-[55] recto (verso blank) at front. Libri quos ab Aristotele certa fide cogouimus emanasse: verso of leaf [56] (recto blank) at front.
Smithsonian Call Number: PA3890 .A99 1493
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: Eis Organon Aristotelous [Opera] (1495)
Title: Eis Organon Aristotelous. ; Anonymon ... Skipionos Kartermachou ... Aldou Manoukiou Basianeos eis philous ...
Imprint: Venice: Dexteritate Aldi Manucii Romani., Calendis Nouembris. M.CCCC.LXXXXV. [1495]-M.IID. [1498] mense Iunio.
Comments and Notes: Title romanized from Greek. Edited by Aldo Manuzio and Scipione Forteguerri. Each volume has separate t.p. Listed in ISTC as being in the Burndy Library Imprint from colophon of v. 1 and 5. Colophon of v. 2 dated: Mense Februario. M.III.D.; v. 3 dated: Mense Ianuario MIIID.; v. 4 dated: Cale[n]dis Iunii. M.III.D. Includes works of Galen (v. 2), Philo, of Alexandria (v. 2), Theophrastus (v. 2-4), and Alexander, of Aphrodisias (v. 4, pt. 2) Woodcut capitals and borders. Vol. 1: final 2 words on leaf a7 recto read correctly: apodeiktikais episemais. Vol. 3: leaf 100 verso has final line of text printed on strip of paper and pasted in; has a leaf signed PP (i.e. 2rho) inserted between leaves 400 and 401. Spine titles: Opera. DSI copy bound in 6 v., with v. 4 divided: [234]; [32], 268; 400, [1], 401-457, [9] (lacking 1 leaf XX8); [1], 226; 116, 42, 12, 121, [1]; 209, [13], 210-316, [1] leaves. Provenance: Bern Dibner (donor) Marginalia (ms.) and ms. notes in some volumes, with some loss due to cropping. Made-up copy with various edges and provenance markings.
Smithsonian Call Number: PA3890 .A2 1495
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: De animalibus (1495)
Title: Aristotelis De natura animalium libri nouem ; De partibus animalium libri quattuor ; De generatione animalium libri quinq; / interpre Theodoro Gaza.
Imprint: Venice: [Simon Bevilaqua, ca. 1495]
Comments and Notes: Uniform title and imprint from Goff. Signatures: A6 A-Z6 &8. Guide letter initials. Final leaf blank. Cancel t.p. is (modern?) type facsimile. Last leaf covered with (contemporary?) Latin ms. notes in ink.
Smithsonian Call Number: QL41 .A717 L1495
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: De caelo (1495)
Title: Libri de celo [et symbol] mundo Aristotelis : cum expositione Sancti Thome de Aquino : [et symbol] cum additione Petro de Alverna.
Imprint: Venice: M adato [et symbol] sumptibus nobilis viri d ni Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoeti esis per Bonet u Locatellum Bergomensiz, 1495 quintodecimo kalendas Sept ebres [18 Aug.]
Comments and Notes: Edited by Hermannus de Virsen. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: a-h6 i-k8. Printed in double columns. Initials. Publisher's device on leaf 76 recto.
Smithsonian Call Number: QB41 .A717 1495
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Author: Aristotle
Short Title: De animalibus (1498)
Title: Aristotelis De natura animalium libri nouem ; De partibus animalium libri quattuor ; De generatione animalium libri quinq; / interprete Theodoro Gaza.
Imprint: Venice: Impressum mandato & expensis nobilis uiri Domini Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoeti esis per Bartholameum de Zanis de Portesio, 9 Augusti 1498.
Comments and Notes: Listed in ISTC as being in the Burndy Library. Uniform title from Goff; imprint from colophon. Caption title, leaf 1: Aristotelis Stragiritæ De historia animalium. Signatures: a-q6. Publisher's device below colophon, leaf 89 verso. Initials. Final leaf blank.
Smithsonian Call Number: QL41 .A717 L1498
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