Cursus librorum philosophie naturalis [secundu]m viam doctoris subtilis Scoti
Contributors: Furter, Michael, -1517, printer; Naville, Ernest, 1816-1909, former owner; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Impressi per Michaele[m] furter
Published: 1494
Place of publication: Basilee
Language: lat
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Physics; Early works to 1800; Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Mathematics
Other titles: Cursus librorum philosophiae naturalis
Notes: Imprint from colophon (leaf z10).

Text begins (leaf a2): [E]xpedita prima [par]te principali huius tractatus sc[ilicet] [de] scientia mathematica: videndu[m] e[st] consequenter de secunda: sc[ilicit] de phisica: siue de naturali ph[ilosoph]ia. (A summary of the "Mathematica" is at the end of the volume.)

Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶ e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸ i⁴ k-y⁸ z¹⁰ chi⁶.

Printed in 2 columns; initial spaces, sometimes with guide letter.

Illustrations: 5 prints, 2 full-page, 3 smaller. On leaves g1v, g2v, h5v, h7v, and  h8v. Full-page depictions of the celestial sphere and the zodiac, and smaller depictions of a compass rose, a wind and a rainbow. Several additional small diagrams in the "Geometria," leaves chi3, chi3v, chi4, and chi4v.

LC copy has initials, capital strokes, and paragraph marks in red.

With:  Nicolas d'Orbelles. Su[m]mule philosophie rationalis, seu logica ... Impressumq[ue] Basilee : Per Michaele[m] furter, Anno domini MCCCxciiij [1494]  Issued separately?  Also found bound together in BM. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Goff O-74

Hain-Copinger-Reichling 5864

GW M28115

BM 15th cent., III, 783 (IA.37776)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) io00074000

LC copy has the bookplate of F. Raisin, and provenance notations on blank prelim. and t.p.: Frères Mineurs Franciscaines de Fribourg en Suisse; Ernest Naville, Genève 1849; Fréderic Raisin, avocat Genève, 1910.