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Author: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Short Title: In Aristotelis libros Peri hermeneias et Posteriorum analyticorum expositio (1489)
Title: Incipiunt preclarissima Co[m]me[n]taria diui Thome Aquinatis sacri ordinis predicatorum i[n] libros Peri hermenias Aristotelis. [Incipiunt preclarissima Comme[n]taria diui Thome Aquinatis sacri ordinis predicatorum i[n] libros Posteriorum Aristotelis ; in...
Imprint: Venice: P[er] Gulielmu[m] Tridinense[m] de Mo[n]teferato, anno d[omi]nice incarnat[i]o[n]is 1489 xvj Kalendas Decembris [16 Nov.]
Comments and Notes: Commentary passages are interspersed with Latin translations from Aristotle. No collective title; individual caption titles taken from incipits on leaves a2 recto, A1 recto, and K3 recto. Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf K7 verso). Leaves printed on both sides; 60 lines of commentary per page. Signatures: a-d6 e4 A-H6 I-K8. The first page (leaf a1 recto) and leaf K8 are blank. Text in double columns. Guide-letters; spaces for initials. "Corrector lectori salutem" (heading for 3 elegiac couplets)--Verso of 1st leaf (a1). Old ms. notes; some affected by cropped margins. Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Illegible stamp from a religious institution on leaf a2 recto. Old paperboard binding; leather spine with raised bands; blank versos of old printed leaves used as paste-down endpapers; vellum ms. waste used to reinforce spine; binder's title reads: Thome Aquinatis in Libros Aristotelis, 1489.
Smithsonian Call Number: B491 .L8 T45 1489
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