Incipit opus ergegiu[m] De ani[m]a qui sextus naturaliu[m] Auicene dicit[ur].

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Avicenna, 980-1037, author.
Uniform title:Kitāb al-Nafs. Latin
Imprint:Papie : Impressum per Magistrum Antonium de Carchano, [between 1484 and 1485]
Description:[52] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
Language:Latin
Persian
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy is number 2 of 2 titles bound together; bound with: [Articella seu Opus artis medicinae]. Venetiis : Per Baptistam de Tortis, 1487.
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2950074
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Varying Form of Title:Incipit opus ergegium De anima qui sextus naturalium Auicene dicitur
Other authors / contributors:Carcano, Antonius de, active 1472?-1497, printer.
Baum, Wilhelm, 1799-1883, former owner.
Senn, Nicholas, 1844-1908, former owner.
Newberry Library, former owner.
Provenance:Former owners' manuscript annotations in 3 hands; underscoring.
Former owner's signature: 1511 Leonis Braünspergensi.
Former owner's inscription: W. Baum, Berolini 1836.
Inscription largely obsucred by bookplate; 2 crossed out inscriptions.
From the collection of Dr. Nicholas Senn, donated to the Newberry Library and then transferred to the John Crerar Library with his permission. See A list of books exhibited December 30, 1907-January 4, 1908, including incunabula and other early printed books in the Senn collection.
Binding: Blind tooled leather over wooden boards; brass catches and clasps (missing); brass bosses on corners; leather tabs; manuscript title on vellum pasted to front cover: Artisella, Auice[n]na De anima; re-backed (19th century[?]).
Notes:Title from incipit, leaf [2].
Place of printing and printer from colophon.
Date of publication from Incunabula short title catalogue; British Museum Catalogue dates to circa 1490.
Signatures: a-b⁴ c-h⁶.
Printed in 2 columns; 50 lines; Haebler, type 4:78G; spaces for capitals, chiefly with guide letters.
First leaf blank.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ia01415000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 03111
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 2219
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, XII, page 71 (IB. 31341 )
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry A-1415
Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica, entry 134.1
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 7058
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry A-967

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