tib01301000

Text-inc Id:

tib01301000

Bod-inc Id:

B-605

Headings:

Burlaeus, Gualtherus Expositio in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1v Torresanus, Andreas: [Note to the reader on the layout of the text and the references to the divisions of Averroes.] Incipit: ‘Conspicientes librum Ethicorum Aristotelis iuxta expositionem Gualteri Burlei . . .’
3. A2r [Tabula.]
4. b1r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: [Dedicatory prologue addressed to] Richardus de Bury, Bishop of Durham. Incipit: ‘[R]euerendo in Christo patri et domino domino Ricardo diuina disponente clementia Ulmensis(!) sedis episcopo . . .’
5. b1r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea. Incipit: ‘  “[O]mnis ars et omnis doctrina”. Scientia moralis que est de actionibus uoluntariis . . .’ See B‑604; book seven has different incipit and explicit; incipit: ‘Septimus liber qui principaliter est de continentia et incontinentia continet duos tractatus. In primo determinatur de continentia et incontinentia . . .'; explicit: ‘ . . . sicut habent reges et quidam alii principes. Et in hoc finitur breuiter et modo facili id quod de libro Ethicorum intellexi'.
6. b1r Aristoteles: Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Robertus Grosseteste.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars et omnis doctrina, similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ See A‑387.

Imprint:

Venice: Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 4 Sept. 1500. Folio.

Collation:

A⁸ a⁶ b–x⁸ y¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01301000 GW 5779; HC *4144; Goff B‑1301; BMC V 576; Pr 5629; BSB‑Ink B‑1005; CIBN B‑920; Hillard 521; Oates 2206; Rhodes 462; Sander 1469; Sack, Freiburg, 868; Sheppard 4707. LCN: 13983735

Copies:

1. B-605(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; marbled pastedowns; for the Bodleian Library. Size: 330 × 225 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 200 mm. Some early notes and underlining in red ink. Provenance: Nicolaus Traune (fl. before 1509); inscription on A1r:‘Liber pertinet Nicolao Traune predicatori Heidelbergensi'. Peter Schibenhart (fl. 1509); inscription on A1r: ‘Emptus tandem a Petro Schibenhart ex Didesheym ab executoribus prefati predicatoris p[ost?] eius mortem Anno 1509'. Unread inscription on A1r, dated 16 Apr. 1614. Samuel Butler (1774-1839); sale, pt II, lot 457. Purchased for £0. 11. 0; see annotated sale catalogue; listed without the price in Books Purchased (1840), 33. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.47.