tia00256400

Text-inc Id:

tia00256400

Bod-inc Id:

A-117

Headings:

Albertus Magnus Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum. Incipit: ‘Sicut vult philosophus in pluribus locis, omnis scientia de genere bonorum est. Verumtamen enim operatio aliquando bona, aliquando mala . . .’ In this edition, the last part of the third book (c4r) is included before the explicit; see also A‑114.
2. d1r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: De mirabilibus mundi. Incipit: ‘Postquam sciuimus, quod opus sapientis est facere cessare mirabilia rerum, que apparent in conspectu . . .’ The computistic rules which appear as additions in other editions are here integrated into De mirabilibus mundi (f6r). For references see A‑114.
3. g2r ‘Tabula istius libelli.’
4. g4r Adelardus Bathoniensis: Quaestiones naturales. See A‑021.
5. o2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui petit occultas rerum cognoscere causas | me videat, quia sum leuis explanator earum'; 2 hexameters.
6. o3r Quaestiones naturales philosophorum. Incipit: ‘Primo igitur queritur, utrum aer est magis necessarius ad vitam quam cibus . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1628.

Imprint:

[Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, 1486-91]. 4°. As dated by HPT; GW and Campbell–Kronenberg date [c.1488-91], Sheppard [1487-92].

Collation:

a–q⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00256400 GW 666; HC 532; C 166a; Goff A‑258; Pr 9407; Campbell–Kronenberg 81b; HPT II 389; ILC 58; Proctor, Additions to Campbell, 81^A; Sheppard 7199. LCN: 14292667

Copies:

1. A-117(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf q6. Binding: Sixteenth-century English (Cambridge) blind-tooled calf, stamped with initials I[ohn] C[heke]. Roll with initials G[arrett] G[odfrey] († 1539): see George John Gray, The Earlier Cambridge Stationers and Bookbinders and the First Cambridge Printer, Bibliographical Society, Illustrated Monographs, 13 (Oxford, 1904), 28-43 and pl. xxvi, no. iii. Two ties lost. Size: 211 × 147 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 204 × 135 mm. Occasional early and seventeenth-century(?) annotations in the Liber aggregationis. On a1r and rear endleaf, an eighteenth-century(?) note: ‘An experyment'. Shelfmark on front edge. Provenance: John Cheke (1514-1557); inscription on a2r: ‘Joannes Chekus'. Thomas Portway (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r in sixteenth-century hand. John Selden (1584-1654), see MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 63^v; MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44. Presented in 1659. SHELFMARK: 4° A 49 Art. Seld.