JOHANNES CANONICUS (fl. mid 14th century). Quaestiones super physica Aristotelis . Padua: [Bonus Gallus], 25 April 1475 [date altered to 1465 in manuscript]. Super chancery 2° (310 x 204mm). Collation: a-b 1 0 c [d-m 8 n 6 o-x 8 y 1 0 z-B 8 C 4] (a1r prologue, a1v text, B8r first colophon, B8v continuation, C3v index, C4r second colophon, C4v blank). 208 leaves. Double column, 36 lines. Type: 1:111R. 2- to 5-line initial spaces. (a1 with tears at inner margin, small hole in text on a3, some light worming throughout, widespread on final leaf, quires n-r wormed at inner margin, marginal waterstains and soiling, n6v faintly registered.) Contemporary South-German blue-stained half doeskin over wooden boards, chased brass clasp with leather thong, 18th-century lettering piece (spine worn at extremities, upper board with minor cracks and area of leather binding reduced, a few tears to leather, scattered wormholes on spine and covers, inside back board wormed). Provenance : partially erased 17th-century catalogue entry at head of a1. FIRST EDITION. Five editions were published between 1475 and 1492/93, but the identity of the 14th-century author is uncertain. Notice of him as an Englishman in J. Pitseus De illustribus Angliae scriptoribus (1619, p. 406) has not been confirmed. That Johannes Canonicus, Franciscan, was Johannes Marbres, canon of Tortosa, rests upon a statement on C3r, found only in this edition. An Iberian origin for the work is corroborated by another attribution, also peculiar to this edition, of the quaestiones on lib. i-iii of the Physica to Petrus Casuelis, another Minorite, as the name is evidently Castilian, and by the citation of 'cuiusdam subtilis bacchalaurei cathalani.' The mention of Geraldus Odonis, who held the post of Generalis Magister of the Minorites from 1329 to 1342, indicates an approximate date for the composition. Although the printer of the first edition is identified as Albertus de Stendal in BMC VII, p. 911, IGI and other authorities, BMC XII states that 'documentary evidence exists to prove that it was in fact printed by Bonus Gallus.' The son of Johannes of Béthune in Picardy, Bonus Gallus established his first press briefly in Padua; it is recorded that in February, 1475, he was ordered to prison for a debt to a journeyman. The first colophon on B8r is interpolated in error after the first quaestio on lib. viii, and is followed by the second quaestio. As in the BL copy, a second series of printed signatures appears in quires o, q-t; additional manuscript signatures are found in quires c, d, o and p. H 4344; BMC XII, 65 (IB. 29951); Polain (B) 4486; IGI 2411; IBE 3205; BSB-Ink I-335; Klebs 553.1; Goff J-262.
JOHANNES CANONICUS (fl. mid 14th century). Quaestiones super physica Aristotelis . Padua: [Bonus Gallus], 25 April 1475 [date altered to 1465 in manuscript]. Super chancery 2° (310 x 204mm). Collation: a-b 1 0 c [d-m 8 n 6 o-x 8 y 1 0 z-B 8 C 4] (a1r prologue, a1v text, B8r first colophon, B8v continuation, C3v index, C4r second colophon, C4v blank). 208 leaves. Double column, 36 lines. Type: 1:111R. 2- to 5-line initial spaces. (a1 with tears at inner margin, small hole in text on a3, some light worming throughout, widespread on final leaf, quires n-r wormed at inner margin, marginal waterstains and soiling, n6v faintly registered.) Contemporary South-German blue-stained half doeskin over wooden boards, chased brass clasp with leather thong, 18th-century lettering piece (spine worn at extremities, upper board with minor cracks and area of leather binding reduced, a few tears to leather, scattered wormholes on spine and covers, inside back board wormed). Provenance : partially erased 17th-century catalogue entry at head of a1. FIRST EDITION. Five editions were published between 1475 and 1492/93, but the identity of the 14th-century author is uncertain. Notice of him as an Englishman in J. Pitseus De illustribus Angliae scriptoribus (1619, p. 406) has not been confirmed. That Johannes Canonicus, Franciscan, was Johannes Marbres, canon of Tortosa, rests upon a statement on C3r, found only in this edition. An Iberian origin for the work is corroborated by another attribution, also peculiar to this edition, of the quaestiones on lib. i-iii of the Physica to Petrus Casuelis, another Minorite, as the name is evidently Castilian, and by the citation of 'cuiusdam subtilis bacchalaurei cathalani.' The mention of Geraldus Odonis, who held the post of Generalis Magister of the Minorites from 1329 to 1342, indicates an approximate date for the composition. Although the printer of the first edition is identified as Albertus de Stendal in BMC VII, p. 911, IGI and other authorities, BMC XII states that 'documentary evidence exists to prove that it was in fact printed by Bonus Gallus.' The son of Johannes of Béthune in Picardy, Bonus Gallus established his first press briefly in Padua; it is recorded that in February, 1475, he was ordered to prison for a debt to a journeyman. The first colophon on B8r is interpolated in error after the first quaestio on lib. viii, and is followed by the second quaestio. As in the BL copy, a second series of printed signatures appears in quires o, q-t; additional manuscript signatures are found in quires c, d, o and p. H 4344; BMC XII, 65 (IB. 29951); Polain (B) 4486; IGI 2411; IBE 3205; BSB-Ink I-335; Klebs 553.1; Goff J-262.
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