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1517Best.-Nr. 260577Venice: Luce Antony de Giunta 1517. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with a fine woodcut headpiece showing St. Thomas teaching; many decorative initials and in-text diagrams throughout and printer's device at end. 6 147 leaves with black letter Latin text printed in double columns. Folio later vellum-backed boards. Venitijs Impensis domini Luce Antonij de Giunta Florentini 1517. A tear in the title page has been carefully mended still a very good tight copy with some contemporary ink marginalia. Scarce. OCLC lists only 5 copies including those at Cambridge NYU and University of Pennsylvania. An early edition of Saint Thomas Aquinas' 1225-1274 "great commentary on Aristotle's physics - the most important scholastic commentary on this seminal text of ancient science. Aquinas the philosopher is forever entwined with Aristotle as the former came onto the scene just as the Aristotelian corpus arrived in Latin translation and questions of the relation between faith and reason challenged the modus vivendi that had been in effect for centuries." USTC 859417 Luce Antony de Giunta unknown books
1517Best.-Nr. 260577Venice: Luce Antony de Giunta 1517. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with a fine woodcut headpiece showing St. Thomas teaching; many decorative initials and in-text diagrams throughout and printer's device at end. 6 147 leaves with black letter Latin text printed in double columns. Folio later vellum-backed boards. Venitijs Impensis domini Luce Antonij de Giunta Florentini 1517. A tear in the title page has been carefully mended still a very good tight copy with some contemporary ink marginalia. Scarce. OCLC lists only 5 copies including those at Cambridge NYU and University of Pennsylvania. An early edition of Saint Thomas Aquinas' 1225-1274 "great commentary on Aristotle's physics - the most important scholastic commentary on this seminal text of ancient science. Aquinas the philosopher is forever entwined with Aristotle as the former came onto the scene just as the Aristotelian corpus arrived in Latin translation and questions of the relation between faith and reason challenged the modus vivendi that had been in effect for centuries." USTC 859417 Luce Antony de Giunta unknown
Best.-Nr. 64949Timurid Persia circa 1500 AD. Arabic manuscript on paper 143 leaves plus 1 flyleaf 19 lines to the page written in black slanted naskh headings and important words in red occasional marginal commentary in a black gilt Safavid stamped binding with polychrome filigree doublures. An ownership note on folio 1A reads: The book Analut qiy which is the Book of the Syllogism authored by Aristotle and translated by Ibn al-Muqaffa' passed into the possession of the humblest servant Ibn Muhammad B qir Jaafar in the year nine hundred and eighty-one. The author: Ab al-Wal d Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd 1126–1198 known in the Latin West as Averroes was one of the most influential thinkers of the medieval world. Born in Córdoba the great intellectual centre of al-Andalus he trained in law medicine theology and philosophy. His early career combined service as a jurist and physician with a deep engagement in the study of Aristotle whose works were being rediscovered and systematically commented upon across the Islamic world. Averroes' fame rests above all on his philosophical writings especially his vast series of commentaries on Aristotle for which he was hailed in Europe as The Commentator. These ranged from short epitomes to expansive line-by-line exegeses and together they provided the most comprehensive account of Aristotelian logic natural philosophy and metaphysics available in the Middle Ages. Translated into Hebrew and Latin from the thirteenth century onward his works shaped the course of scholastic philosophy influencing figures such as Thomas Aquinas Siger of Brabant and later Renaissance humanists. In the Islamic world Averroes stood at the intersection of philosophy law and theology. He defended the compatibility of reason and revelation in works such as Tah fut al-Tah fut The Incoherence of the Incoherence written in response to al-Ghaz l . He also contributed to medicine with his encyclopedic Kulliyy t the Colliget in Latin. His intellectual project reflected the dynamism of twelfth-century al-Andalus where Muslim Jewish and Christian scholars shared a common commitment to rational inquiry. Averroes' legacy embodies the transmission of Greek philosophy through the Islamic tradition into Europe making him a pivotal figure in the history of philosophy. The text: Talkh s Kit b al-Qiy s is Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics the foundational treatise in which Aristotle first articulates the theory of the syllogism the core of ancient and medieval logical science and the starting point of the Organon. In the Middle Commentaries Averroes recasts Aristotle's arguments into a clear pedagogical style designed for teaching striking a balance between concise epitomes and exhaustive line-by-line exegesis. This tiered approach—short j mi' middle talkh s and long tafs r—is one of Averroes' major contributions allowing readers of different levels to engage systematically with Aristotelian logic and helping to establish his reputation as "The Commentator" in the Latin West. Aristotle's Prior Analytics holds a privileged position within the Organon laying out the rules by which valid conclusions necessarily follow from premises—the figures and moods of the syllogism. Because logic was regarded not as a science but as the instrument of all the sciences mastery of the Prior Analytics was essential for philosophical medical theological and legal reasoning throughout late antiquity and the medieval period. By reorganising and clarifying Aristotle's material Averroes ensured the continued vitality of the Organon-centred curriculum across Arabic Hebrew and Latin traditions keeping the art of demonstration central to intellectual life. The manuscript is especially valuable for its textual history. The opening folio attributes the work to the translation of Ibn al-Muqaffa d. c. 757 the celebrated Abbasid-era translator whose renderings of Greek philosophical texts—including the Organon—formed the earliest Arabic corpus of Aristotelian logic. This direct reference links the manuscript to a chain of transmission that stretches from early Abbasid translation efforts through Averroes' systematic commentaries to Timurid scribes who preserved the text for subsequent scholars. The influence of Averroes' logical writings was profound. From the thirteenth century his commentaries were translated into Hebrew and Latin and became core texts in universities such as Paris and Padua shaping scholastic debate and giving rise to the current of "Latin Averroism." Many scholastic philosophers including Thomas Aquinas encountered Aristotle primarily through Averroes' interpretative lens. Timurid Persia, circa 1500 AD. unknown
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1812Best.-Nr. 140947913London: Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks 1812. First Edition in English. Very Good. First edition in English of the works of Aristotle one of 50 sets printed and boldly signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All volumes bear the armorial bookplates of noted bibliophile and Bronte family benefactor Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861. Incomplete set with eight of ten volumes present of the complete translation. Uniformly bound by "J. Mackenzie Binder to the King" in contemporary half morocco over French Curl marbled boards with spines lettered and tooled in gilt; all edges gilt 4to. Very Good with wear extremities rubbed sporadic foxing hinges slightly tender. Volumes include: 1. The Organon 1807. 2. The Treatises on the Soul 1808. 3.The History of Animals 1809. 4.The Treatises on the Parts and Progressive Motion on Animals etc. 1810. 5. The Rhetoric 1811. 6. The Great Edemian Ethics 1811. 7. A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle 1812.8. The Metaphysics first edition of 1801. The first collected English translations of Aristotle's works from Orphic fragments by Neoplatonist scholar Thomas Tyler 1758-1835. Provenance of famed bibliophile and collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer whose well-curated and respected library expanded to nearly 20000 volumes. Bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin remarked that she was "the head of all female book collectors in Europe." Known for her philanthropic endeavors she donated a sum of 50 pounds to Patrick Bronte father of Charlotte Bronte when he was widowed in 1821. Currer also contributed an unknown amount to the Clergy Daughter's School that the Bronte sisters attended. Scholars postulate that Charlotte chose the non de plume of "Currer Bell" for her first published 1847 novel Jane Eyre in honor of Currer's philanthropy. A desirable set even without Currer's bookplate that seldom comes up for sale. Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks unknown
