Illustrissimi philosophi & theologi, domini Alberti magni co[m]pendiosum, isigne, ac perutile opus Philosophie naturalis
Contributors: Arrivabene, Giorgio, active 1483-1520, printer; Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280; Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316
Series: Incunabula -- VE 2
Publisher: per Georgium de Arrivabenis
Published: 1496
Place of publication: Venetiis [Venice]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Medieval Philosophy; Biology; Early works to 1800; Psychology
Other titles: Opus Philosophie naturalis.; Philosophia pauperum.; Philosophia domini Alberti Magni.
Description: This work, commonly known as the Philosophia pauperum, is now generally ascribed to Albertus of Orlamünde, not Albertus Magnus. It primarily contains extracts from Albertus Magnus, including version "B" of De anima, and the first and third books of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum and his De passionibus anime. Cf. B. Geyer in Albertus, of Orlamünde. Die Albert dem Grossen zugeschriebene Summa naturalium (Philosophia pauperum) Münster, 1938, p. 60-62.
Notes: Title from incipit.

Imprint from colophon: Impressum Venetiis per Georgium de Arriuabenis: Anno Domini. M. cccclxxxxvi. die ultimo mensis Augusti.

Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶ (g6 blank)

Chancery quarto, 37 lines, plus headline; area of text: 157 (164) x 108 mm. With ornamental woodcut initial on leaf a2, initial spaces, mostly with guide-letters elsewhere; without foliation and catchwords. Register at end.

Includes two full-page woodcut illustrations on leaves a1 and e6, and two smaller schematic woodcut illustrations on leaves b4 and d1.

Goff, A-298.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ia00298000.

BM 15th cent., V, p. 386 (IA. 22560)

BSB-Ink., A-130.

GW, 713.

Klebs, 23.6.

Bodleian Library, Oxford University [Auct. 4 Q 5.3] Oxford England enk.