Incipit Expositio clarissimi [et] celeberrimi philosophi Gaetani Thiene[n]sis super libros De a[n]i[m]a Aristotelis philosopho[rum] principis Grecorum sapientissimi. [Incipit Questio de sensu agente / disputata per Gaetanum de Thiennis artium [et] medicin...
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Vicenza: [Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus, 21 Sept. and 16 Oct. 1486]
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and Notes:
No collective title; individual caption titles have been taken from incipits (leaves a2 recto, n6 recto and r1 recto).
Imprint from Goff.
First colophon (leaf n5 recto) reads: Preclarissimi in philosophi Gaetani Thiennensis Uicentini: co[m]mento in tria volumina A[ristotelis] De anima Deo fauente maximo finis impositus est Henrici de Sanco [i.e. Sancto] Urso impensa ingenioq[ue] diligenter impresso [et] sollerti cura emendato: Uicen[sem]. Anno ab Incarnatio Domini M.cccc.lxxxvj. xj. Cal[endas]. Octobris.
Second colophon (leaf t2 recto) reads: ... Deo optimo maximoq[ue] fauente finis feliciter impositus est: impe[n]sa ingenioq[ue] Henrici de Sancto Urso summa cum diligentia impressis Uincentie annis D[omi]ni ab Incarnatione. M.cccc.lxxxvj. xvii. Cal[endas] nouembris.
Two states of the incipit are known, varying in line-endings. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Leaves printed on both sides; 67-68 lines of commentary per page.
Signatures: a8 (-a6) b-c6 d-l8/6 m6 n8 o-p6 q8 r-s6 t4.
Text in double columns.
The first page (leaf a1 recto) and the final two leaves (t3 and t4) are blank.
Spaces for initials; printer's device on colophon (leaf t2 recto).
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Printed bookseller's catalog description tipped in on front paste-down.
Extensive old ms. annotations, generally affected by cropped margins.
Imperfect: Leaves a2 and a3 slightly damaged by wormholes; leaves i5 and i6 have been torn at bottom and repaired, with some loss of text.
Modern quarter-leather binding with old rubricated manuscript-waste vellum over paper boards; gilt-lettered spine.