Compendium in mathematicam, physicam et metaphysicam
(1485)
Title:
Incipit compe[n]diu[m] dignissimu[m] [et] vtilissimu[m] considerat[i]onis matematice quo ad aritmetrica[m] [et] geometria[m] [secundu]m ea que sunt necessaria naturalibus [et] sup[er]naturalibus scientiis M. Nicolai d[e] Orbellis p[ro]uincie Turonie ordin...
Imprint:
Bologna: p[er] Magistru[m] Henricu[m] de Haerlem, anno Domini 1485.
Comments
and Notes:
ISTC uses author form: Orbellis, Nicolaus de.
In three parts, the first two of which comprise the first volume. The colophons read: I) Henricus de Harlem; II) Henricus de Harlem and Matthaeus Crescentinus.
Title from incipit (leaf a2 [signed a1] recto).
Imprint from colophon (leaf n7 recto).
"Petrus Almadianus Uiterbiensis phi. cultor. Nycolao Dor. Gallico. F."--Opening to prefatory poem, leaf [a1] recto (i.e. recto of first leaf, unsigned).
A companion work to Orbellis's Expositio in duodecim libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis secundum viam Scoti (Bologna : Henricus de Haerlem and Matthaeus Crescentinus, 31 March 1485).
Signatures: a-n8.
Text printed in double columns; 34 lines per page.
Guide-letters.
Final leaf (n8) is blank.
Extensive marginal ms. annotations in ink.
Ten blank pages with old ms. indexes written in ink have been inserted at front of volume.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bound in half-vellum over paste-paper boards; title inked on spine, which reads: D'Orbellis. Matematica--Aritmetica--Geometria.