tia00076500

Text-inc Id:

tia00076500

Bod-inc Id:

A-037

Headings:

Aegidius Romanus In Aristotelis De sophisticis elenchis commentum.

Analysis of content:

1. .17.1v Augustinus de Meschiatis de Bugella: [Letter to] Johannes Stephanus Ferrerius. Incipit: ‘Nisi reuerendissme domine logicorum summus Aristoteles ac philosophorum princeps . . .’
2. .17.1v Tellucius de Sancto Miniate, Nicolaus: Incipit: ‘Vita fugit, uolitant anni, mors frigida falce'; 6 elegiac distichs addressed to Johannes Stephanus.
3. .17.2r Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): [Letter to] Philipp de Tiette. Incipit: ‘[E]x illustri prosapia oriundo domino Philippo filio praeclari ac uenerabilis comitis Flandrensis . . .’
4. .17.2r Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[A]lpharabius in logica sua uolens quandam notitiam tradere de dialetica ait quod fundamentum dialetice est ex intellectu . . .’
5. .17.3v Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): In Aristotelis de sophisticis elenchis commentum. Edited by Augustinus de Meschiatis. Incipit: ‘De sophisticis autem elenchis . . . Liber iste qui dicitur Elenchorum sicut alii libri philosophi, potest diuidi in partes duas. In prohemium et tractatum . . .’ See Bruni, Opere, 4; Lohr (1967), 328-9 no. 3 (this edn not mentioned); Glorieux, Répertoire, II 400 ae; Zumkeller 21.
6. .25.3v Augustinus de Meschiatis: ‘Quaestio de medio demonstrationis defensiua opinionis domini Egidii Romani.’ Incipit: ‘[M]ouetur questio ex intentione Aristotelis in secundo Posteriorum quod sit medium in demonstratione . . .’
7. .25.6v ‘Tabula.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uia in omnibus libris domini Egidii Romani . . .’
8. .25.7v [Colophon.]
9. .25.7v Tellucius de Sancto Miniate, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Huchuc intrepidi iuuenes, has currite ad undas'; 2 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Venice: Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 24 Sept. 1500. Folio.

Collation:

.17.–.25.⁸. This continues the sequence of the same publisher's edition of Aegidius on the Posterior Analytics (GW 7194). Six woodcut diagrams.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00076500 GW 7196; H 1141 = 142; BMC V 576; Pr 5630; Bofitto 37 XVIa.3; Bruni, ‘Saggio', 37; BSB‑Ink A‑53; CIBN A‑42; Oates 2207; Rhodes 601; Sander 2051; Sheppard 4708-10. LCN: 14427655

Copies:

1. A-037(1) First copy Binding: Nineteenth-century brown paper over pasteboard. Size: 308 × 221 × 12 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 210 mm. Provenance: Acquired after 1847; not in Catalogus (1843) with appendix; the shelfmark indicates a date around 1858. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 4.5.
2. A-037(2) Second copy Bound with:
   1. Gualtherus Burlaeus, In Isagogas Porphyrii. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1509;
   2. Johannes Duns Scotus, Quaestiones in Vniversalia Porphyrii. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1512;
   3. Mauritius Hibernicus, Super Isagoge Porphyrii. Venice: 1512;
   4. Robertus [Grosseteste] Lincolniensis, Commentaria in Posteriora Aristotelis. Venice: Petrus de Quarengis, 1504;
   5. Johannes Duns Scotus, Questiones utiles super libros Priorum Analyticorum Aristotelis. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1512. Wanting the blank leaf .25.8. Binding: Contemporary English (Oxford, c.1512-20) brown calf over wooden boards, rebacked, upper board loose, two clasps and catches lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover. Four-line fillets and fillets and floral roll form double frame: see Gibson, Oxford Bindings, roll 1 and pl. xix; Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xliii, no. 706, Fl a (3); Ker, Pastedowns, pl. i, roll 1. The central panel divided by diagonal three-line fillets into lozenge-shaped compartments each containing a foliate ornament: see Gibson, Oxford Bindings, pl. xix; Ker, Pastedowns, pl. xi, rolls 9 and 10. Size: 325 × 230 × 75 mm. Size of leaf: 315 × 207 mm. Pastedown on upper board: Italian fourteenth-century(?) manuscript of the Liber Sextus decretalium: Regulæ iuris in Sexto (50 inc. mut.) 51-7.61.58; note the transposition with respect to the standard text, ed. Friedberg II, col. 1123 f. With the gloss of Johannes Monachus: see edn from Paris: Jean Petit, 1535 (repr. Aalen, 1968) fols 438^vb –439^vb. Provenance: Richard Gorton (fl. 1518-1540); inscription on title-page of item 1 in the volume. John Selden (1584-1654): see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18, where item 1 is listed, with the place and date of printing of item 6; see also MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 44^r. Presented in 1659. Former Bodleian shelfmark: B 1. 8 Art. Seld. SHELFMARK: A 2. 8(6) Art. Seld.
3. A-037(3) Third copy Bound with:
   1. Gualtherus Burlaeus, In Isagogas Porphyrii. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1509;
   2. Johannes Duns Scotus, Quaestiones in Universalia Porphyrii. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1512;
   3. Mauritius Hibernicus, Super Isagoge Porphyrii. Venice: 1512;
   4. Johannes Duns Scotus, Questiones utiles super libros Priorum Analyticorum Aristotelis. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1512;
   5. Robertus [Grosseteste] Lincolniensis, Commentaria in Posteriora Aristotelis. Venice: Otinus de Luna, Papiensis, 22 Mar. 1497 (R‑079(2)). Wanting the blank leaf .25.8. Binding: Seventeenth-century brown calf, rebacked, two hinges and clasps removed with ensuing repairs to boards; triple fillets form a border. Size: 315 × 224 × 77 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 203 mm. Early marginal notes. On the first leaf of each item in the lower right hand corner are the remains of a letter (the best preserved being ‘E' for item 5) in a sixteenth-century(?) hand. Two lists of contents on title-page of item 1, one of which also certainly antedates the ownership of William Smith. All the items bound together at present are mentioned in these lists. Provenance: William Smith (†1735); inscription on title-page of item 1, dated 1678. University College; book-plates inside upper board and on title-page of item 1; shelfmark ‘L 250.1'; ‘List of Rare Books', p. 1. Deposited in 1941 by the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford. SHELFMARK: Univ. Coll. c.5(6).