tia00289000

Text-inc Id:

tia00289000

Bod-inc Id:

A-125

Headings:

Albertus Magnus De natura et origine animae cum commento.

Analysis of content:

1. A2r [Prologue by the commentator.] Incipit: ‘[E]t quia plurimorum peripateticorum via circa naturam et originem anime versatur diuersa . . .’
2. A3v Albertus Magnus: De natura et origine animae. Opera (1651), V 185-217; Opera (1890), IX 375-434; Editio Coloniensis (1951-), XII 1-44. For the manuscript transmission see Fauser no. 30.
3. A4r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Ex hoc textu habetur intentio auctoris de quo in hoc libro determinare intendat . . .’
4. K9v [Exhortation to study Albert's work.] Incipit: ‘Bonarum artium studentes secundum hortamina Pauli ad Colosenses 4: “In sapientia ambulate ad eos qui foris sunt” . . .' [Col 4,5].
5. K10r ‘Epitaphium dependens ad sepulcrum venerabilis domini Alberti Magni . . .’ Incipit: ‘Fenix doctorum, paris expers, philosophorum | Princeps, verborum vas fundens dogma sacrorum. | Hic iacet Albertus preclarus in orbe disertus, | Pre cunctis certus assertor in arte repertus, | maior Platone, vix inferior Salomone, | quem tu, Christe bone, doctorum iunge corone. | Annis bis denis minus actis mille trecenis | Christi nascentis de corporis exit habenis | quinta post festum Martini luce molestum | ore petendo deum transiuit agens iubileum.’ See Walther, Initia, 14095.
6. K10r [Colophon including praise of the book.] Incipit: ‘Gentilium litterarum interpretis clarissimi Alberti magni . . . finit feliciter.’

Imprint:

Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 27 June 1493. 4°.

Collation:

A–I⁸ K¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00289000 GW 702; HC *497; Goff A‑289; BMC II 474; Pr 2287; BSB‑Ink A‑155; CIBN A‑127; Oates 1100; Sack, Freiburg, 80; Sheppard 1658. LCN: 14290943

Copies:

1. A-125(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 205 × 150 × 16 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 137 mm. Occasional early marginal notes in faded red and in brown ink; red underlining. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, no. 2777 in list of duplicates in quarto. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.75.