Illustrissimi philosophi & theologi domini Alberti magni. co[m]pe[n]diosu[m] : i[n]signe : ac p[er]utile opus Philosophie naturalis : feliciter i[n]cipit. De acceptione hor[um] no[m]i[n]um : natura : & naturale. Cap. I.

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Title:
Illustrissimi philosophi & theologi domini Alberti magni. co[m]pe[n]diosu[m] : i[n]signe : ac p[er]utile opus Philosophie naturalis : feliciter i[n]cipit. De acceptione hor[um] no[m]i[n]um : natura : & naturale. Cap. I.
Alternative Title:
Title in Incunabula short title catalogue: Philosophia pauperum, sive Isagoge in libros Aristotelis physicorum, de coelo et mundo, de generatione et corruptione, meteororum et de anima Illustrissimi philosophi et theologi domini Alberti Magni compendiosum insigne ac perutile opus philosophiae naturalis
Date:
September 10, 1490
Creator:
Albertus, de Orlamünde, 1230- author
Contributor:
Description:

  • 40(41) lines; type 78R (a8; b5).

  • Also includes excerpts of Aegidius Columna, De regimine principium.

  • Imprint from colophon on leaf 2c6r: Illustrissimi philosophi & theologi : domini Alberti magni co[m]pe[n]diosum : insigne : ac p[er]utile opus Philosophiae naturalis : feliciter Explicit : Brixiae Impraessum p[er] Praesbyteru[m] Baptista[m] de Farfengo : Anno domini. M.cccclxxxx. Die uero Decimo me[n]sis Septe[m]bris.

  • Philosophia pauperum is attributed to Albertus de Orlamünde rather than Albertus Magnus. Consult Thomas Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum medii aevi, 4 vols (Rome, 1970-93), I (1970), page 31, and Bernhard Geyer, Die Albert dem Grossen zugeschriebene Summa naturalium (Philosophia Pauperum). Texte und Untersuchungen, BGPTM 35 (Münster, 1938), pages 42-47, 60*-62*.

  • Signatures: pi² a-c⁸ d⁶ 2a-2b⁸ 2c⁶ (a2 missigned "b2"; d6v, 2a8r blank)

  • Spaces with guide letters for initials.

  • Title from caption at incipit on leaf a1r.

  • Version B of the text. Consult Incunabula short title catalogue.

  • Woodcut diagram of winds on leaf c7v; woodcut printer's device on leaf 2c6r.

  • Woodcut of a head in profile with three ventricles illustrated with circles on leaf 2a7v: I. Ve[n]triculus: Imaginatio se[n]suscommunis; II. Ve[n]triculus: Extimatio imaginatiua; III. Ve[n]tricul.: Me[m]bro[rum] motiua memoratiua.

  • Rubenstein Library copy 1: Later full parchment over boards; sewn all along on five stations; rounded spine, hollow-back; gold-stamped on spin: A. Magnus, Brixiae 1490.

Subject:
Format:
Publisher:
Brixiae : Impraessum per Praesbyterum Baptistam de Farfengo, Anno domini M.cccclxxxx. Die vero Decimo mensis Septembris
Language:
Latin
Extent:
[108] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Digital Collection:
David M. Rubenstein Library Rare Books & Manuscripts
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE99119702234708501
Provenance:
  • Source of acquisition: Purchase; Rubenstein Library copy 1: (Purchased from) Swann Auction Galleries via James Cummins, Bookseller; 202502.
  • Ownership history: Rubenstein Library copy 1: Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections (Duke University).
  • Ownership history: Rubenstein Library copy 1: Bookplate: Ex-libris A. Bernardes de Oliveira.
  • Ownership history: Rubenstein Library copy 1: Bookplate: Ex-libris Eugene Somer Flamm.
  • Rubenstein Library copy 1: Rubricated in red and blue.
  • Rubenstein Library copy 1: Variant, noted in ISTC, with bb5r repeated on the last verso, which should be blank.
Referenced In:
  • Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), A-164
  • Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, 985
  • Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 2631
  • Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 504
  • Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 711
  • Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A296
  • Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00296000
  • Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica, 23.4
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • 99119702234708501
  • cbmst513001
  • ark:/87924/r40z7g062
  • 68d00c04-8fa7-4706-8e37-c1141ef180bb
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