tib01203000

Text-inc Id:

tib01203000

Bod-inc Id:

B-558A

Headings:

Bricot, Thomas Textus abbreviatus super libris Physicorum et tota naturali philosophia Aristotelis.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r Bricot, Thomas: Textus abbreviatus super libris Physicorum et tota naturali philosophia Aristotelis. ‘Prohemium Phisicorum.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem intelligere et scire contingit . . .’ Explicit: vere est sit accidens nulli See Lohr, 29 (1973), 177-8, no. 4; the abbreviated text alternates with commentary. The abbreviated texts are those of: De caelo et mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteora, De anima, De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De somno et vigilia, De longitudine et brevitate vitae.
3. a3r [Georgius Bruxellensis; and Bricot, Thomas: Quaestiones additae super libris Physicorum.] Incipit: ‘  “[Q]uoniam quidem intelligere et scire contingit . . .”. Iste est liber Phisicorum Aristotelis in quo determinatur de rebus naturalibus . . .’ Explicit: primo fuissem non eclipsat. See Lohr, 24 (1968), 156-8, no. 2; CIBN states that these quaestiones are a mixture of those of Bricot and of Georgius Bruxellensis.
4. m12r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fata regunt finem, spero dii cepta seundent(!)'; 1 line of verse. See Walther, Initia, 6282.
5. m12r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fortuna opes auferre non animum potest'; 1 line of verse.
6. m12v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Ut celum signis prefulgens est duodenis | Sic hominis corpus assimilatur eis'; 7 elegiac distichs.
7. m12v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fata regunt finem, spero dii cepta secundent'; 1 line of verse. See Walther, Initia, 6282.
8. T8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fata regunt finem spero dii cepta secundent'; 1 line of verse. See Walther, Initia, 6282.
9. T8r [Note.] Incipit: ‘Non viribus aut velocitatibus aut celeritate corporum res magne geruntur sed consilio sententia et autoritate.’
10. T8r [First colophon.]
11. T8r ‘Hexastichon.’ Incipit: ‘Qui mutilus fueras ego te mi dulce Georgi | Ad limam redigens tua nigra in candida verti'; 6 hexameters.
12. T8r [Printers' device.]
13. [*1r] Georgius [Bruxellensis]: ‘Tabula questionum et dubiorum cursus totius phisices Georgii luce clarius indicatiua'.
14. V1r Quaestiones sex librorum Metaphysicorum. Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur primo utrum totalis habitus qui metaphisica dicitur . . .’ Explicit: existens currit CIBN, with references, records this as an anonymous work; Hillard notes that it has been attributed to both Thomas Bricot and Georgius Bruxellensis.
15. V1v Bricot, Thomas: Textus abbreviatus: Metaphysica. ‘Metaphysice'. Incipit: ‘[O]mnes homines natura scire desiderant . . .’ Explicit: sapientior est
16. Z6v [Second colophon.]
17. Z6v ‘Distichon'. Incipit: ‘Qui ducis vultus et non vides ista libenter | Omnibus inuideas liuide nemo tibi'; 1 elegiac distich.

Imprint:

Paris: Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl, 3-13 Nov. 1494. Folio. With two colophons in the second and third parts.

Collation:

a⁸ b¹⁰ c–l⁸ m¹² A–T⁸ [*]² V X⁸ Y Z⁶. Woodcuts: see BMC.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01203000 GW 5543; HC 3971; Goff B‑1203; BMC VIII 135; not in Pr; CIBN B‑855; Hillard 504; Rhodes 445; not in Sheppard. Microfiche: Unit 28: Philosophy: Renaissance, PH 156. LCN: 13407423

Copies:

1. B-558A(1) Copy Wanting the title-page a1. Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century parchment. Mottled red- and black-edged leaves. Size: 274 × 210 × 72 mm. Size of leaf: 266 × 196 mm. Copious early marginal notes, including extensive comments on the text, also diagrams, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands; underlining in the text in black and in red. Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials are supplied in red or blue; occasional capital strokes in red. Provenance: Dr Brian Lawn (1905-2001); book-plate; catalogue, p. 22. Bequeathed in 2001. SHELFMARK: Lawn d.2.