Lefèvre d'Étaples, Phylosophiae naturalis paraphrases, Paris, 1512, Italian brown morocco gilt
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LEFÈVRE D'ÉTAPLES, JACQUES. In hoc opere continentur totius phylosophiae naturalis paraphrases: hoc ordine digestae... Introductio Metaphysica. Dialogi quator ad Metaphysicorum intellecentiam introductorii. Paris: Henri Estienne, 31 January 1512
A RARE VOLUME OF LEFÈVRE D'ÉTAPLES' COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE. The present volume is notable for the way in which its edges are stained to mark the divisions of the text: red (Physicorum); black (Coelo et mundo); green (De anima. De sensu et sensato. De sommo et vigilia. De longitudine); red (Dialogo in super ad physicorum. Introductio metaphysica).
8vo (160 x 106 mm). Gothic type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: a-z8 &8 ς8 A-R8: 336 leaves. Woodcut initials and diagrams, occasional early modern marginalia. (Some marginal worming to start of textblock.)
binding: Brown Italian morocco over pasteboards (167 x 112 mm), 2 blind fillets, at head of upper cover "ARISTOTELES", inner rectangular frame containing repeated knotwork tool, inner compartment with leafy branch at corners, in centre a stirrup tool tête-bêche, traces of 4 pairs of fabric ties, spine with 3 full bands, saltire in compartments, tooled in a low-grade gold (much oxidised). (Extremities rubbed.)
provenance: Jesuit Collegium Goritiense, nineteenth- or early-twentieth-century purple stamp—Antonianum Coll. Univ. Bibl., later red rectangular stamps on title-page and c3r. acquisition: Purchased in 2015 from Librario Bado e Mart, Padua. references: BP16 102036; USTC 143967
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