( NICOLETTUS, Paulus )

Paulus Venetus Logica

      Gabriel De Grassis ( c1485 ). 4to. ( 204 x 148 mm ). 50 leaves, double column, 49 lines, gothic letter, initials and paragraph-marks supplied in red. Printer's device on final leaf. Vellum backed wrappers. Early Ms. notes in red and brown ink, diagram on verso of a3. The Logica Parva (to give it it's full title) was written c1401. It was first printed in 1472 and some seven or eight further editions were published before the current volume. its importance can hardly be overestimated, of which over eighty surviving manuscript copies and twenty-five editions are a testimony, the latest edition only just having been published in 2002. It was the most widely read treatise on logic in 15th century Italy, and its particular significance lies in transmitting Oxford logic to Italy and thereby influencing the development of logic, science and philosophy in the Renaissance. The author (c1372-1429) was an Augustinian friar, and Venetian ambassador to the King of Poland in 1413. Not in BMC. Inc. Goff P226, date, "about 1485." Very Good.