Barbo, Paolo.

Divina Epitoma Questionu[m] in quattuor lib[ri] S[ente]n[t]ia[rum]. [With Isolani’s] Index. [With his] In Averroistas De eternitate mundi Libri quattuor…. Item de velocitate omnium motuum preclara dogmata. [With his] Dispvtata Catholica.

Pavia, G. Pocatela [= J. de Burgofranco] December 1521 through April 1522.

CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN BLIND-DECORATED BLACK MOROCCO over wooden boards (worn), outer frame of bouquets and knotwork, spine compartments diapered, four brass catches (lacks clasps), red and blue silk headbands.

Seven parts or volumes in one, complete. 8vo (158 x 108 mm.) [iix], 135, [1 blank] leaves and 112 leaves and 43, [1 blank] leaves and 83, [1 blank] leaves and [ii], [14] leaves and 23 [r. 24] leaves and 15, [1 blank] leaves. Gothic type, double-column, inner and outer marginal shoulder notes, nine text woodcuts. The first four title-pages are printed in red and black within a woodcut frame of birds, flaming braziers, Quintus Curtius and sphinxes (Kristeller, Lombardische Graphik 275). The first five title-pages have advertising text in the top, left and right margins.

ALL SEVEN VOLUMES IN FIRST EDITION. They span science, philosophy and theology.
            In the first five, Isidoro Isolani (c. 1477-1528) brings Barbo’s (d. 1494), Jean Capréole’s (1380-1444) and Thomas Aquinas’ (c. 1224-74) commentaries on Peter Lombard’s (c. 1096-1160) Sentences into the pockets of impecunious students (no doubt grateful for the index).
            In the sixth volume, EIGHT TEXT WOODCUTS ILLUSTRATE ISOLANI’S WORK ON PROPORTIONS, SPEEDS AND OTHER MECHANICAL SUBJECTS. He extracts key arguments on inertia from Albert of Saxony (?1316-90) and references the English mathematicians Richard Swineshead and Thomas Bradwardine. In the final volume, Isolani ATTACKS LUTHER AND DEFENDS INDULGENCES. Though listed on the verso of the main title-page, the seven volumes were sold separately. I have not located a complete set in the U.S. In good condition.
¶Sander, Le Livre à figure italien 5479 (vols. I-IV); Cavagna, Libri e tipografi a Pavia nel Cinquecento 276 (I-IV after Sander), 284 (VII) & 174 (the ghost “1513” edition of VI); Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science III: 1430 (also “1513” for VI); Tinazzo, “Il tipografo-editore Iacopo Pocatela” in Atti e memorie dell’Academia Patavina di scienze, lettere, ed arti 70 (1957-58) 133-168 no. 95 (no complete set); EDIT16 CNCE 4170 (I-VI) & 35349 (VII).

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Price: $7,850.00