Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Isagogicon moralis disciplinae.
Add: Pseudo-Lucianus Samosatensis (Leo Baptista Alberti): De virtute conquerente; Lucianus Samosatensis: Dialogus de funerali pompa [Latin]. Translated by Rinucius Aretinus.
[Rome: n.pr., ca. 1490?]
4to. a-b8 c6. [22] leaves (a1 blank).
Woodcut initials.
ISTC ib01252500; GW 5619; CIBN B-890.
Imprint from CIBN (see there for a description of the types used). GW assigns to [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1495]. De virtute conquerente is said in the book to be a translation by Carolus (Marsupinus) Aretinus of a work by Lucianus Samosatensis; it is in fact Leo Baptista Alberti’s original Latin Virtus Dea – ISTC.
| GIP number: | B112 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BC28-f.7 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hamilton collection donation, 1878. |
| Binding: | Unbound. |
| Leaf size: | 220 x 148 mm. |
| Annotations: | Title written on a1r (first blank leaf) “Hysagoga seu Introductio ph[ilosoph]ie moralis Leonardj aretinj” in a 16th-century hand; frequent marginal annotations in Latin in a 16th-century hand up to leaf b3r, together with nota marks and several manicules. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Large piece torn from outer margin of a1 (the first blank leaf). |
