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Contributors: Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer; Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, editor; Pio, Alberto, 1475-1531?, dedicatee; Forteguerri, Scipione, 1466-1515, editor; Bondinus, Alexander, active 15th century, editor; Caballus, Franciscus, -1540, editor; Diogenes Laertius; Theophrastus; Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305; Philoponus, John, active 6th century; Philo, of Alexandria; Alexander, of Aphrodisias; Huth, Henry, 1815-1878, former owner; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder; Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher: [Aldo Manuzio]
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Venice]
Language: grc
Subjects: Botany; Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Economics; Ancient Ethics; Ancient Logic; Mechanics; Metaphysics; Ancient Philosophy; Physics; Politics; Predicate (Logic); Ancient Science; Zoology
Other titles: Eis organon Aristotelous anonymon; Ton en tede te biblo periechomenon onomata kai taxis, Aristotelous bios ek ton Laertiou ...; Ton en tede te biblo periechomenon, onomata kai taxis, Aristotelous peri zoon historias ...; Ton en tede te biblo periechomenon onomata kai taxis, Theophrastou per phyton historias ...; Tade enestin en tede te biblo, Aristotelous Ethikon Nikomacheion biblia deka ...; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Works
Description: The first printed Greek language edition of Aristotle's collected works, with the exclusion of the Poetica and Rhetorica. Includes works of Galen, Philo of Alexandria, Theophrastus, and Alexander of Aphrodisias, among others. Edited by Aldus Manutius with the assistance of Alexander Bondinus (Agathermeros), Scipio Forteguerri, and Franciscus Caballus.
Notes: In Greek, with preliminaries in Latin.

Title devised by cataloger; imprint derived from colophons.

In five volumes, dated: volume 1) 1 Nov. 1495; volume 2) Feb. 1497; volume 3) 29 Jan. 1497; volume 4) 1 June 1497; volume 5) June 1498. Each volume has separate title page with list of contents.

For signatures, consult Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Bod-inc), entry A-384. BPL copy differs from Bod-inc in that first two leaves of volume 4 are part of an unsigned gathering of two, in which the second leaf is blank.

Volume 1: [234] leaves; volume 2: [32], 268 leaves; volume 3: 400, [1], 401-410, [1], 411-457, [9] leaves; volume 4: 1, [1], 226; 116, 12, 42, 121, [1] leaves; volume 5: 209, 19 (i.e., 13), 210-316, [1] leaves. Errors in foliation throughout.

Super-chancery folio; 30 lines plus headline (lacking in volume 1); woodcut initials and head-pieces.

In some copies, volume 3 has cancel slip with a line of text and a catchword pasted beneath line 30 on leaf 100 verso.

Access to physical copy/copies by appointment only. Please contact Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department for further information.

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ia00959000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 02334

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry A959

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, pages 553-558

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry A-384

Cataloged 20180801 jm
Table of contents: title: Volume 1: Porphyrii Introductio siue universalia. Aristotelis Praedicamenta. Peri herminias i[n] De interpraetatione. Priora resolutoria. Posteriora resolutoria. Topica. Elenchi.; title: Volume 2: Aristotelis uita ex Laertio. Eiusdem uita per Ioannem Philoponum. Theophrasti uita ex Laertio. Galeni De philosopho[rum] historia. Aristotelis De physico auditu. De coelo. De generatione & corruptione. Meteorologicorum quatuor. De mundo ad Alexandrum. Philonis Iudaei De mundo. Theophrasti De igne. Eiusdem De ventis. De signis aquarum & uentorum incerti auctoris. Theophrasti De lapidibus.; title: Volume 3: [Aristotelis De historia animalium, and 18 other works. Theophrasti De piscibus, and 4 other works]; title: Volume 4: Theophrasti De historia plantarum. Eiusdem De causis plantarum. Aristotelis Problematum sectiones. Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Problematum libri. Aristotelis Mechanicorum liber. Eiusdem Metaphysicorum libri. Theophrasti Metaphysicorum liber; title: Volume 5: Aristotelis Ethicorum ad Nicomachum libri. Politicorum libri. Oeconomicorum libri. Magnorum moralium libri. Moralium ad Eudemum libri