DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.
Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um] artium et theologie doctoris in divi Thome de Aq[ui]no co[m]mentaria sup[er] libris posteriorum Aristotelis p[er]utiles q[uae]stiones. Nec non ipsius q[uaesti]ones in eiusde[m] divi Thome fallaciar[um] opus: nu[n]c primu[m] recognite: infinitisq[ue] errorib[us] emendate.
Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs of Ottaviano Scoto, 25 January 1514.
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JOHANNES CANONICUS; Franciscus de BENZONIBUS, editor. Joannis canonici doctoris clarissimi: ordinis minorum: super octo libros phisicor[um] questiones i[n]cipiunt. Venice, Boneto Locatello for Ottaviano Scoto, 16 October 1487.
Two works in one vol., folio, ff. 78; [80] (of 86), with blank a1 but wanting leaves h2–7; text in two columns, woodcut initials, woodcut devices to last leaves; old marginal repairs to title of first work and to initial blank of second work as well as to a few other pages, some marginal worming, some leaves browned, occasional marks; otherwise good in seventeenth-century limp vellum, title in ink to spine, eighteenth-century printed shelfmark label at foot of spine (‘B N. 83’); ties wanting, a few small marks, hinges split; sixteenth-century marginalia to 15 pp. of first work and to 60 pp. of second work, in different hands, trimmed, a four-line recipe using rose water to first blank page of second work.
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Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um] artium et theologie doctoris in divi Thome de Aq[ui]no co[m]mentaria sup[er] libris posteriorum Aristotelis p[er]utiles q[uae]stiones. Nec non ipsius q[uaesti]ones in eiusde[m] divi Thome fallaciar[um] opus: nu[n]c primu[m] recognite: infinitisq[ue] errorib[us] emendate.
Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian commentaries. The first, by the Dominican philosopher Dominic of Flanders (c. 1425–1479), analyses two works by Thomas Aquinas: his commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (on the nature of scientific axioms), and his De fallaciis (on various kinds of fallacy). The second is an incunable edition of an important commentary on Aristotle’s Physics attributed to ‘John the Canon’, now known to have been authored by an Augustinian Canon Regular of the Cathedral of Tortosa named Francesc Marbres, a Catalan from Barcelona, while he was Master of Arts at the University of Toulouse around 1330. Surviving manuscripts and printed editions (the first of which appeared in 1475) attest to the work’s popularity and influence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The annotator of the first work displays an interest in knowledge and predication. The marginalia in the second work discuss being, and refer to Scotus, Avicenna, and Francis of Marchia, among other philosophers.
I. EDIT16 CNCE 17607; USTC 827447; no copies traced in the US, and only one in the UK (Bodley). II. BMC V 436; Goff J265; ISTC ij00265000, recording only one copy in the UK (BL, wanting final leaf) and three in the US (Harvard, University of Chicago, St Bonaventure University).
