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Incipiunt Secreta mulierum [et] viro[rum] ab Alberto Magno [com]posita

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Description: Wrongly attributed to Albertus Magnus. Title from incipit on verso of leaf a2. Imprint from ISTC. On the printer see Schanze. Formerly assigned to Georgius de Spira at Speier (BMC), or to Johann and Conrad Hist. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.7 x 14.9 cm. Text in one column; woodcut initials. Signatures: [a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸ e-f⁶ (a1, f6 blank)].
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [about 1479-1482]
Call number: 100209
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Occasional contemporary ms. annotations and manicules in the margins.
Dimensions: 22 cm (4to)
Associated people: Albertus, (1193?-1280,); Hist, Johann, (active 1483-1492,); Hist, Konrad, (-1531,); Printer of the Brevarium Ratisponense, (active 1478-1480,); Georg,

Incipit opus Alberti Magni. De mirabilibus mundi lege foeliciter

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Often wrongly attributed to Albertus, Magnus. Colophon title: Albertus. Magnus. De. secretis naturae explicit Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.3 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.5 x 8.3 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰]. Initials and rubrication in blue and red. Binding: contemporary blind-stamped Italian goatskin over beech boards; remnants of clasp.

100210

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Imprint from ISTC. Also includes De contemptu mundi wrongly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.7 x 14.5 cm. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶(c6 blank).

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Prologus in librum Aniani qui compotus nuncupatur incipit feliciter

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Title from beginning of text on recto of leaf a1. Imprint from ISTC. Klebs dates imprint to 1488. Includes commentary. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.5 x 13.1 cm. Text in one column; capital spaces. Signatures: a-e⁸ f¹⁰ (f10 blank).

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Incipit pulcher tractat[us] coll[e]c[t]us p[er] venerabilem doctore[m] Walteru[m] Burley Anglicu[m] De vita ph[ilosoph]o[rum]

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Expanded with the life of Persius and the Dicta philosophorum. Cf. ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.7 x 13.6 cm. Main text in one column, measuring approximately 13.4 x 8.4 cm. Indexes of philosophers and subjects in double columns. Capital spaces without guide letters. Incipit and colophon (including printer's mark) printed in red. Signatures: [a-l⁸ m¹⁰]. Large initial on leaf [a]3r in blue; other initials and rubrication in red. Binding: laced limp parchment, possibly Spanish.

85882

Incipit liber qui dicit[ur] Secreta secretoru[m] : qui liber tractat de regimine cuiuslibet hominis quem libru[m] scripsit Aristotiles ad Alexandru[m] discipulum suum

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Huntington Library copy divided into two volumes: vol.1 contains [46] pages (gatherings a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8)); vol. 2 contains [90] pages (leaf c8, gatherings d-h⁸ i⁴). Secretum secretorum was a popular, widely disseminated text in the Middle Ages; it was believed to have been written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great. The Latin text of Secretum secretorum was translated from the Arabic Kitab Sirr al-asrar by Philip of Tripoli, early in the thirteenth century. Translated by Philippus Tripolitanus. Also includes John of Wales' De instructione principum (leaves c8r-g8r), and Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum (leaves g8v-i3r). Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.3 x 13.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8) (a1 blank) [whole work: a-h⁸ i⁴ (a1, i4 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Initials in red. Binding: half calf with marbled paper.

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Incipit liber qui dicit[ur] Secreta secretoru[m] : qui liber tractat de regimine cuiuslibet hominis quem libru[m] scripsit Aristotiles ad Alexandru[m] discipulum suum

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Huntington Library copy divided into two volumes: vol.1 contains [46] pages (gatherings a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8)); vol. 2 contains [90] pages (leaf c8, gatherings d-h⁸ i⁴). Secretum secretorum was a popular, widely disseminated text in the Middle Ages; it was believed to have been written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great. The Latin text of Secretum secretorum was translated from the Arabic Kitab Sirr al-asrar by Philip of Tripoli, early in the thirteenth century. Translated by Philippus Tripolitanus. Also includes John of Wales' De instructione principum (leaves c8r-g8r), and Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum (leaves g8v-i3r). Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.3 x 13.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: leaf c8, gatherings d-h⁸ i⁴(i4 blank) [whole work: a-h⁸ i⁴ (a1, i4 blank)]. Initials in red. Binding: half calf with marbled paper.

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Incipiunt Secreta mulierum [et] viro[rum] ab Alberto Magno [com]posita

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