Albertus de SaxoniaQuaestiones in libros posteriorum.
Analysis of content:
A2r Albertus de Saxonia(?): Quaestiones in libros posteriorum. Edited by Johannes Baptista Tolentinas and Jacobus Baptista de Alovisiis Ravennas. Incipit: ‘Omnis doctrina et omnis disciplina intellectiua ex preexistenti fit cognitione. Circa librum posteriorum queritur vtrum de demonstratione . . .’ See Lohr (1968), 349 no. 2. On the attribution to Albertus and the erroneous attribution to Johannes Buridanus by Michalski, ‘Les courants critiques', Bulletin international de l'Academie polonaise (1925), 204-5, see M. Markowski, ‘Jean Buridan, est-il l'auteur des questions sur les Seconds analytiques?', Mediaevalia philosophica Polonorum, 12 (1967), 16-30. On this edition see G. Montecchi, ‘Autori ravennati ed editoria tra XV e XVI secolo', in Ravenna in età veneziana, ed. D. Bolognesi, Interventi Classensi, 6 (Ravenna, 1986), 191-206, at 203.
E5v [Colophon with note on editors.] ‘Expliciunt questiones subtilissimi Albertutii de Saxonia sacri ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini super libros Analeticorum Posteriorum, castigate ac correcte per venerabiles sacre theologie viros, lectorem fratrem Joannem Baptistam Thollentinatem et fratrem Jacobum Baptistam de Alouixiis Ravennatem, sancti Stephani Venetiarum magistrum studii eiusdem ordinis et voti. Impresse mandato et expensis nobilis viri domini Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetiensis per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem 1497 septimo idus Martias.’
E5v ‘Tituli questionum libri posteriorum.’
E5v Alovisius, Jacobus Baptista: [Letter of dedication to] Carolus Aemilianus.
E6r Palladius Soranus, Domitius: Carmen. Incipit: ‘Christicolis est vna fides, hec pandit olympum | Omnibus hec proprie sola salutis iter.’ Domicius Palladius, Epigrammaton libelli. Venice: Jo. Baptista de Sessa, 1498, fol. b1v -b2r; see Mario Martini, D. P. S. poeta, Contributo alla storia dell' umanesimo (Frosinone, 1969).
Imprint:
[Venice]: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 9 Mar. 1497. Folio.
A-095(1)
Copy
Bound with: 1. Aristoteles, Rhetorica. Venice: Filippo de Pietro, 22 June 1481 (A‑425); 3. Averroes, Commentaria in Aristotelis Meteora. Venice: Andreas Torresanus, 21 Aug. 1488 (A‑632); 4. Philippus Mucagata, Commentum super libris predicabilium Porphirii, predicamentorum Aristotelis et sex principiorum Gilberti. Venice: Petrus de Plasiis, 2 Oct. 1494 (M‑327).
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; a ‘numbered binding' with the running number of the binder.
Size: 328 × 220 × 39 mm.
Size of leaf: 310 × 201 mm.
Provenance: probably the copy donated by Sir John Davies (1569-1629) in 1601; see Benefactors' Register I 35: ‘Idem [Albertus de Saxonia] in Posteriora. fo. Ib. [Venice] 1447.'
Acquired by 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 388 (S 7.7 [Art]; Jensen, ‘Benefactors' Register', no. 64.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.15(2).