tia00075000

Text-inc Id:

tia00075000

Bod-inc Id:

A-038

Headings:

Aegidius Romanus In Aristotelis Physica commentum.

Analysis of content:

1. a1v Aegidius Viterbiensis: [Letter of dedication to] Gratianus Fulginas. Incipit: ‘Commentaria que in phisico auditu Egidius noster edidit, Magister Bernardus Granellus Ianuensis, vir doctrina ac facundia sane clarissimus, cognoscenda castigandaque sumpserat . . .’ View entry in Person Index
2. a1v Aegidius Viterbiensis: Incipit: ‘Eterne studium laudis et inseri'; 28 lines of verse in 7 strophes of 4 lines, each consisting of 2 lesser asclepiad, 1 enneasyllabic and 1decasyllabic aeolic verses. View entry in Person Index
3. a2r Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): In Aristotelis Physica commentum; ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[N]aturalis scientia est aliqua scientiarum speculatiuarum, vt dicitur .vi. Metaphysicae . . .’
4. a4r Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): In Aristotelis physica commentum; commentary. Books 1-4 edited by Bernardus Granellus, 5-8 by Aegidius Viterbiensis, according to the letter of dedication. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam quidem intelligere et scire etc. Liber iste Physicorum, quem pre manibus habemus diuiditur in partes duas, in prohemium et tractatum . . .’ See Bruni, Opere, 9; Glorieux, Répertoire, II 400 g; Lohr (1967), 330 no. 6; Zumkeller 45. The incipit of the commentary is as given by Lohr, not as by Zumkeller.
5. ee3v [Colophon.]
6. ee3v [Printing privilege and monopoly of sale in Venetian territories for ten years.] Incipit: ‘Omnibus autem librum intuentibus palam sit prefatum impressorem Hyeronimum Durantem de speciali gratia ab illustrissimo Venetorum dominio impetrasse . . .’
7. ee4r Aegidius Viterbiensis: ‘Versus ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘Ecce opus antistes quod iam celeberrimus egit'; 6 elegiac distichs. View entry in Person Index
8. ee4r ‘Tabula huius operis.’ The arrangement of the ‘tabula' is explained in the verses above.

Imprint:

Padua: Hieronymus de Durantibus, 15 Oct. 1493. Folio.

Collation:

a–z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ aa⁸ bb–dd⁶ ee⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00075000 GW 7197; H *128; Goff A‑75; BMC VII 1152; Pr 6832; Bofitto 33 XV a.1; Bruni, ‘Saggio', 21; BSB‑Ink A‑38; Sheppard 5609; Rhodes 599. LCN: 14423112

Copies:

1. A-038(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 290 × 192 × 46 mm. Size of leaf: 290 × 192 mm. Early marginal notes in red ink on a2r. Manuscript note of the title of the work (probably cut from earlier binding) pasted inside upper board. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum' on front endleaf. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 3.16.