Johannes Philoponus - Commentaria in libros priorum resolutoriorum - Renaissance tekst over formele logica - 1548

Ioannes Grammatici of Alexandria, nicknamed Philoponus, with annotations and commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics from the conversations of the most learned Ammonius Hermaeus, together with some of his own meditations. Again translated from Greek into Latin, much more elegant and polished than before, with Lucillus Philalthaeus as translator.
In tenebris fulget.
Si quis hunc usquam aliius suae ditionis locorum impune librum imprimat, alibiue imprimatum vendat, Pontificis Maximi, et Veneti Senatus Illustrissimi Decreto cautum est - Venetie, Hieronymus Scotus, 1548 - 84 folia (=167 pp, recto laatste blad blanco) - parchment binding

Reasonably good. The binding is evenly soiled and slightly warped due to dryness, ripple on the front cover, parchment along the top edge loose; loss at the top corner of the cardboard cover (not of the parchment), crack at the top of the right hinge and in the outer top corner of the back cover. The endpapers are loosening, loss at the top corner of the flyleaves and pages 82, 83 and 84. Ink scribble on the title page. Worm trail on the right top of the title page about 7 cm (see photo), smaller worm trail at the top of page 2 about 4 cm, then on pages 3 and 4 worm holes of a few mm. Continuous moisture stain, with some old residue (not to be wiped away) in the top corner from the front cover to the back cover throughout the book. In the outer top corner this has, across the entire book block, led to weakened paper - thin and fragile - with some loss of paper, a crack of a few mm to 1 cm in that corner across several pages. Stamp in the margin of the title page, recto of page 53 and page 84. Interior browned, some spots, moisture stain on the lower half from page 80 to the end (see the last 10 photos for the corners). Crack, 1 cm, in the margin of two pages.
The book block remains well fixed in the binding. The text and the various geometric woodcut diagrams are clear, sharp, and easily readable throughout. No loss of text.

Rare and early 16th-century edition (Cinquecentina) with the Latin commentary by the Byzantine philosopher John Philoponus (Ioannes Grammatici) on Aristotle's logical masterwork Analytica Priora (Priorum Resolutoriorum). This influential philosophical work was translated from Greek by Lucillus Philalthaeus. Printed in Venice in 1548 by the renowned printer Hieronymus Scotus (Girolamo Scotto). The title page features a magnificent large woodcut printer's mark of Scotto with the text "In tenebris fulget" and the letters "S O S". The contents include various geometric and logical woodcut diagrams to illustrate Aristotle's syllogisms.

Will be sent by registered mail.