Mensa philosophica..
Scot, Michael,approximately 1175-approximately 1234.
Anguilbertus, Theobaldus.
Guldenschaff, Johann,active 1477-1490,printer.
Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard,1787-1854,former owner.StEdNL
[Cologne : Johann Guldenschaaf,
ca. 1485]
Variously attributed to Michael Scot and to Theobaldus Anguilbertus.--Cf. Brunet, v.3, col. 1635-1636.
This edition, for the most part, is a page by page reprint of Conrad Winter's ca. 1480 Cologne edition (Goff M-491), with the addition of a title leaf.--Cf. BM 15th cent.
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon reads: Presens liber que[m] mensa[m] philosophica[m] vocant: vnicuiq[ue] p[er]utilis: co[m]pendiose p[er]tractans in p[ri]mis q[uo]d in co[n]uiuijs p[ro] cibis et potibus sumendu[m] est. deinde qui sermones illis [secundu]m exigentia[m] p[er]sonaru[m] habe[n]di su[n]t: et que q[ue]stiones discutie[n]de: q[ue] insup[er] facetie siue ioci intersere[n]di Feliciter explicit.
Signatures: a⁶ b-f⁸ g⁶ h-l⁸ m-n⁶; a2, b2, and b4 not signed; b3 missigned b2.
Chancery quarto, 26 lines and headline; area of text: 143 (150) x 86 mm. Table printed in 2 columns. With initial spaces; without foliation and catchwords. Headline gives book number.
Some supply of initials in different styles. Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Captials rubricated.
With occasional marginal annotations.
BM 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink.
Goff
ISTC
Klebs
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Bookplate on front pastedown: Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
19th-century half leather and marbled paper with red and green leather labels on spine.
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