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Contributors: Averroes, 1126-1198, commentator; Vernia, Nicoletus, editor; Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529, printer; Blavis, Thomas de, active 1476-1491, printer; Johann, von Koln, active 1471-1491, bookseller; William, of Moerbeke, approximately 1215-1286, translator; Scot, Michael, approximately 1175-approximately 1234, translator; Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928, former owner
Publisher: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula and Bartholomaeus de Blavis, de Alexandria (in part for Johannes de Colonia)
Published: 1483
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Subjects: Science; Early works to 1800; Philosophy
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Works
Notes: Title devised by cataloger; imprint from ISTC.

Issued in 8 parts, dated: I.1) for Johannes de Colonia, 1 Feb. 1483; I.2) 2 Oct. 1483; II. 1.1) 27 May 1483; II. 1.2) 25 Sept. 1483; II. 2.1) 12 Sept. 1483; II. 2.2) 8 Oct. 1483; III. 1) 25 Oct. 1483; III. 2) for Johannes de Colonia, 3 Feb. 1483.

Royal folio; 66 lines per page; initial spaces with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-387

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-962

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00962000

Cataloged 20170127 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy imperfect: comprised of part II, 1.1 and 1.2 only (118 leaves: a-h́ı aa-dd́ı eéœ ff́ı gg℗£́ʻ). Leaves c3 and c5 are wanting and are replaced with duplicate leaves ee3 and ee4.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown patterned paper. Spine unlabeled. The bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson is present on the front pastedown. Leaf dimensions: 422 x 279 mm. The margins of a2 recto show a contemporary hand-painted border with white vines on a red, blue, and green background enclosed in a green rectangular wreath. Present in the lower margin is a coat of arms (azure, a fleur de lys and a crescent or palewise), surrounded by a wreath supported by four putti. Early marginalia is present throughout the volume. The upper corners of most leaves show damp staining.
Table of contents: title: [I.1] Praedicamenta, De interpretatione, Analytica priora (Tr: Boethius). Analytica posteriora (Tr: Jacobus Veneticus). Topica, Sophistici elenchi (Tr: Boethius). Porphyrius: Isagoge in Aristotelis Praedicamenta (Tr: Boethius); title: [I.2] Physica; title: [II. 1.1] De caelo et mundo (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka and Michael Scotus); title: [II. 1.2] De generatione et corruptione; title: [II. 2.1] De anima (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka and Michael Scotus); title: [II. 2.2] De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De somno et vigilia, De longitudine et brevitate vitae, Meteorologica (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka). Averroes: De substantia orbis (Tr: Michael Scotus); title: [III. 1] Metaphysica (lib. i-xii, tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka, with the 'vetus translatio'). Nicoletus Vernia: Quaestio an caelum sit ex materia et forma constitutum; title: [III. 2] Ethica ad Nicomachum (Tr: Robertus Grosseteste). Politica (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka). Oeconomica (Tr: Durandus de Alvernia).