Donati Acciaioli Florentini Expositio super libros ethicorum Aristotelis in nouam traductionem Argiropyli Bizantii..
Acciaiuoli, Donato,1429-1478.
San Jacopo di Ripoli (Convent : Florence, Italy),printer.
Smith, Joseph,1674-1770,former owner.StEdNL
Impressum Florentiae : Apud Sanctum Iacobum de Ripoli,
M CCCCLXXVIII. [1478]
Title from caption on leaf a5v. (The letter "Z" in "BIZANTII" is reversed.).
Imprint from colophon on leaf L11v.
Median folio. Leaf a2r: 39 ines; area of text: 223 x 141 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Printed section marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁴ [superscript chi]d⁴ e-h⁴ I¹⁰ L¹² m-u¹⁰ x⁴ A-H¹⁰, ²I¹⁰ L¹².
Leaf ²L12 is blank. A variant has register on leaf ²L12r. Cf. ISTC.
Leaves a1, d1, L4 and m1 unsigned. On leaf I2r, "ii" in signature mark printed upside-down. Leaves I5, L2, L5, n3, A5 and B5 signed "iV", "Li", "Liiii", "Nii", "Aiiii" and "bv", respectively.
Some signature marks printed in fore-edge margin. "In and after quire o the signatures usually form part of the last line of text on the page, a great part of the line being often blank."--BM 15th cent.
The last line on first d1a and the last two lines on o2a have been added after printing off.--BM 15th cent.
The printer's copy for this edition has been identified as Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze MS Magl. XXI, 136-7. Cf. M.L. Ford, "Author's autograph and printer's copy" in M. Davies, ed., Incunabula (London: The British Library, 1999), p. 109-128, no. 19.
With manuscript annotations.
Manuscript title on fore-edge.
Goff
BM 15th cent.,
GW
BN cat. des incun.
BSB-Ink.
ISTC
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Armorial bookplate of Joseph Smith on front pastedown. With Advocates Library ex libris inscription dated 1773 on front free endpaper.  Bought at the Bibliotheca Smithiana sale (day 1, lot 145) for £1-2-0.
Parchment over boards.
Ethics
Italy Florence.