[ARISTOTLE] Augustini Suessani Philosophi perspicacissimi subtilissima commentaria in libros Meteorologicorum, & in librum de Mistis, sive Quartum Meteororum ab antiquis nuncupatum & ordinatum... Venice, H. Scotus 1559.
Folio. (14) lvs. 638 cols. Numerous woodcut diagrams and printer's device.(Bound with): [ARISTOTLE]: Parva naturalia Augustini Niphi Medices Philosophi Suessani...Venice, O. Scotus 1523.Folio. (2) lvs., 121 lvs., (1) leaf (blank). Numerous woodcut diagrams and printer's device.(Bound with): NIFO, Agostino: De intellectu. De demonibus. Venice, P. de Querengis 1503. Folio. 82 Bll. (last 2 lvs. wrongly paginated). Repeated woodcut device. 17th century flexible vellum (browned, soiled some small vellum defects) with handwritten title on spine, small library label and 2 ties (one incomplete). I: Very rare edition (1 entry in CCBI, no copy in the USA [NUC], no entry in Index Aurel., BMSTC, Adams, Schweiger and Hoffmann. One more copy in the Virtual Catalogues). Nifo's commentary has been reprinted - together with Aristoteles' text - after 1523 several times. II: Rare edition (not in Ind. Aurel., NUC, CCBI, Adams, Schweiger and Hoffmann; 4 copies only in the Virtual Catalogues); first edition of Nifo's commentary. III: First edition of the revised text of De intellectu (the first at all? An edition Padua 1492 - sometimes mentioned as the first one - we couldn't verify). First edition of De daemonibus. Rare. (7 copies in the Virtual Catalogues, no one in NUC). The four books of Aristotles' "Meteorologica" are a continuation of his "physica" and include all phenomena concerning the sub-lunar realm. The (Parva Naturalia" summarises a number of shorter individual investigations and these are expanded in the writing (Über die Seele" and which are concerned with individual functions of the soul and of the body. Today's editions include the writings: (On the Senses and Sensory Objects", (On Memory and Remembering", (On Sleep and Awakening", (On Dreams and Prophecy", (On Longevity and Ephemerality", (On Youth and Old-Age", (On Life and Death" as well as (On Inhalation and Exhalation". This edition has - in common with earlier editions - also been put together according to other criteria: according to the Commentary. For this reason (Book on Causes" has been included, because it belongs to those that Thomas v. Aquina commented on; it was originally his elimination of this work, which is generally accepted today, from the corpus of Aristotle's works; (On the Motion of Animals" was included as a result of Alvernus' commentary, and finally the essay (On Luck" is present; ( On Dreams and Prophecy" was omitted. Agostino Nifo (1473 - 1538 or 1545) lectured at a number of Italian universities (Naples, Pisa, Salerno, Rome), the first station of his academic career being in Padua. Heer - influenced by N. Vernia and the Paduan Averroism - he published "De intellectu et daemonibus" and set forward in this writing the unification and immortality of intelligence gained from the stars. Nifo's major importance is as translator and commentator on the works of Aristotle and Averro. The first c. 30 lvs. with brown-stain to upper margin. Text 1 with slim upper margins (head-line or pagination in places touched), last leaf with tear. 3rd title and 3 lvs. of the last text stained; last gatherings slightly water-marked, in places with damp-staining to lower margins; a few lvs. browned. All in all a well preserved copy. I: CCBI 6. 6262; Lohr/Niphus no. 14 (same copy),. II: BMSTC (Italian Books) 51; Lohr / Niphus no. 24 (2 copies: London, Paris). III: Lohr (Latin Aristotle Comm.) II, S. 282.
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