MAGISTRIS, Johannes de.

Quaestiones super tota philosophia naturali cum explanatione textus Aristotelis.

      [Colophon on x5r:] Parma: [Damiano Moilli], 12 December 1481. - folio. 300 x 205 mm. [ff. 163 (of 164)]. lacking the initial blank. gothic type. 54 lines. 2 columns. initial spaces, with guide letters. contemporary quarter roll-tooled & filleted pigskin over beech bds., 2 brass catchplates retained with leather tabs dyed pink inside, early vellum ms. titling label on upper cover (formerly a sammelband, with the first text(s) now removed, skewing the spine but revealing fragments of a 12th century missal used as a spine lining & a cross-section of the double cords, some light dampstaining to upper margins mainly in first half & to outer margins of a few leaves, very occasional marginal spotting, tiny wormhole below first column of text in quires t-x touching 1 or 2 letters only on leaf x3; a good wide-margined copy). a few contemporary ms. annotations. Provenance: Villingen, Franciscans (letters 'L C V' on upper cover); Fürstenberg Court Library at Donaueschingen. First Edition of this work by the fifteenth century Scotist philosopher, comprising commentary on Aristotle's Physica; De coelo et mundi; De generatione et corruptione; Meteorologica; De anima; De sensu et sensato; De memoria et reminiscentia; De somno et vigilia; De longitudine et brevitate vite. One of only five books assigned to this press. Damiano Moilli is recorded in a document of 1470 as 'miniatore et stampatore a libris', but his first signed imprint is a Graduale of 12 April 1477 (IGI 4355). Moilli is also recorded as the scribe of the manuscripts in the cloister of San Giovanni, Parma. BMC VII 940. Goff M-25 (5 copies). Hain-Copinger 10447. IGI 5939. Klebs 639.1. Oates 2575. Proctor 6860. Rand I 91. Wellcome 3956 (imperfect). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]