Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Aristotle, Libri artis logicae Porphyrii et Aristotelis, Basel, [not after 1495], contemporary blind-stamped pigskin

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ARISTOTELES. [Organon] Liber artis logice Porphyrii et Aristotelis cum explanatione magistri Johannis de Lapide. Basel: Johann Amerbach, [not after 1495]


A wide-margined copy with deckle edges and numerous early annotations in different hands. A copy of St Ambrosius, also edited by Johannes a Lapide and printed by Amerbach in 1492, in an identical Basel binding, is now in Solothurn Zentralbibliothek (Y VI 12). Johannes a Lapide, or Johann Heynlin von Stein (died 1496), was closely involved with Amerbach’s printshop and this is the first edition of his commentary on Aristotle’s work on logic.


The titles lettered on the edges of the textblock enabled the volume to be shelved with the spine uppermost, with either the top or bottom edge visible, or upright with the fore-edge facing out (all three titles written by the same early hand), or flat on the shelf showing the foot of the textblock (in a later hand).

Chancery folio (283 x 200 mm). Gothic type, 48-49 lines plus headline, double column. collation: a8 b6 c-e8 f6 g8 h10 i-k6 l8 m10 n-s6.8 t6 v10 A8 B6 C8 D-F6 G-S8.6 T6 V8 [2]a8 [2]b10: 290 leaves. First initial supplied in red, a few small woodcut diagrams, manuscript annotations. (Small marginal tear at foot of G5, marginal wormholes in last few leaves.)


binding: Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (293 x 217 mm), by the Theodorkirche (“Punktquadrat”) bindery of Basel [EBDB w00026, active 1481-1500], a frame composed of triple fillets filled with pineapple and rose stamps and a small square IHS stamp, the centre filled with a lattice of triple fillets with smaller rose stamps, spine bands outlined with triple fillets, plain edges, plaited blue, red and white endbands, two clasps, title lettered in manuscript on all edges of textblock. (Binding slightly rubbed, upper corner of upper cover bumped, lacking one strap, slight worming to lower board.)


provenance: "Ex libris Guberti a Salicib[us] nec non amicorum", early inscription at foot of title-page (a Gubertus de Salicibus or Salis is recorded in Soglio, a village in the Grisons, Switzerland). acquisition: Purchased in 2000 from B.M. Rosenthal. references: ISTC ia01014100

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