Aristoteles: Ethica ad Nicomachum.
Translated by Johannes Argyropylus, Leonardus Brunus Aretinus and Robertus Grosseteste. Edited by Jacobus Faber Stapulensis. Add: Magna moralia - translated by Georgius Vall; Leonardus Brunus Aretinus: Isagogicon moralis disciplinae; Baptista Mantuanus: Virtutis quaerimonia; Jacobus Faber Stapulensis: Ars moralis in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea introductoria.
Paris: Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl, 1496; 12 Apr. 1497.
Fol. Part I: a-p8 q6. [126] leaves. Part II: a10. [10] leaves. Part III: a-d8 e4. [36] leaves. Part IV: A-D8 E6. [38] leaves.
Woodcuts.
ISTC ia00991000; GW 2359; Goff A991; BMC VIII 138 (IB. 40142); Bod-inc A-394; BSB-Ink A-688.050.
| GIP number: | A88 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Veitch Eg7-b.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Ludovicus de l’Espinette (17th century): at the foot of b7r of part I the name “Ludouicus de lespinette(?)” inscribed in blind with a hard point. John Veitch (1829-1894), Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow: source unknown; number “128” written in blue pencil on front pastedown (a numbering common to many books in the Veitch collection, probably an inventory number). University of Glasgow: Veitch collection donation, 1895. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century parchment-covered boards, title label now lost; sprinkled blue and red-edged leaves; binder’s stamp on front pastedown “Maclehose, Glasgow”. Size: 279 x 209 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 272 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal and interlinear annotations from a2r - l4v of part I in a 16th-century hand, mainly in brown ink but occasionally in red, together with numerous manicules, “nota” marks and underlining. |
| Decoration: | Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red from a2r - a7r of part I. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting parts II-IV. Wanting a1 (title) and all after gathering n of part I (i.e. this copy contains only the translation of the 'Ethica ad Nicomachum' by Johannes Argyropylus). |
