Gaietanus de ThienisExpositio in libros Aristotelis De caelo et mundo (ed. Johannes Antonius Sicanus).
Analysis of content:
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v ‘Tabula.’
a2r Gaietanus de Thienis: [Preface.] Valsanzibio 210-11. See Thorndike–Kibre 853.
a2r Aristoteles: De caelo et mundo. [Translated by Guilelmus de Moerbeka.] See A‑386.
a2r Gaietanus de Thienis: Expositio in libros Aristotelis De caelo et mundo. Edited by Johannes Antonius Sicanus. Incipit: ‘Postquam Aristoteles in libro Physicorum determinauit de corpore . . .’ Explicit: in ordine librorum naturalium, etc. See Lohr, 23 (1967), 391, no. 2; Thorndike–Kibre 1067. The editor is mentioned in the colophon.
Imprint:
Venice: Otinus de Luna, Papiensis, for Benedictus Fontana, 3 Oct. 1498. Folio.
G-017(1)
First copy
Wanting sheet m1.6
With printed title, as HC.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 320 × 227 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 310 × 209 mm.
Provenance: Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly c.1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 4.22.
G-017(2)
Second copy
With printed title, as HC.
Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards, covered with Buntpapier.
Size: 319 × 220 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 307 × 201 mm.
Early marginal notes and underlining in the text; some notes correcting the text; the sections numbered; some notes summarizing the arguments of the text or of the commentary.
Provenance: Paulus Nicolaus Serranus (sixteenth century?); stamp on a1r; others of Serranus's books previously belonged to Serrasanquirico, Marche, Biblioteca Comunale.
Books from this library were bought by Bywater from Bocca in Rome, from May 1912 onwards.
Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); bought from Bocca, May 1914; annotated cutting on the front pastedown; Elenchus, no. 3883.
Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. G 6.20.
