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PAOLO VENETO (1369-1429). Physica Pauli Veneti cum textu Argiropyli. Summa philosophie … cum textu a Ioanne Argiropylo e greco in latinum conuerso. Lyons: Antoine du Ry for Simon Vincent, 1525. Gothic type in double column. Title in red and black with border of seven blocks, woodcut illustrations to the Liber metheorum, historiated and floreated initials. (Title with 30mm clean tear into border and fragment torn from bottom margin, quire a waterstained, occasional browning.) [ Bound with
PAOLO VENETO (1369-1429). Physica Pauli Veneti cum textu Argiropyli. Summa philosophie … cum textu a Ioanne Argiropylo e greco in latinum conuerso. Lyons: Antoine du Ry for Simon Vincent, 1525. Gothic type in double column. Title in red and black with border of seven blocks, woodcut illustrations to the Liber metheorum, historiated and floreated initials. (Title with 30mm clean tear into border and fragment torn from bottom margin, quire a waterstained, occasional browning.) [ Bound with :] PAOLO VENETO. Liber de compositione mundi … in quo omnium celestium signorum: segmentorumque omnium figuratio . Lyons: Simon Vincent, 1525. Title with woodcut border, woodcuts of the personified constellations and planets, woodcut initials, device on final leaf. (Some staining to margins.) Together 2 works in one volume, 4° (253 x 173mm). Contemporary calf over wood boards, blind-panelled covers of alternating fillets and roll-tools (upper cover detached, clasps lacking, cracking to spine). Provenance : contemporary annotations and heavy scoring to several quires in the first work. Paolo Veneto joined the Augustinian Order at the convent of Santo Stefano in Venice in around 1383, and in 1390 went to Oxford where he spent three years reading theology before returning to Italy and finishing his studies at Padua, where he subsequently taught. He became a greatly admired interpreter of Aristotle. In 1408 he compiled the Summa philosophiae naturalis , a systematic exposition of the main areas of philosophical knowledge in six parts, and in 1409 wrote his long commentary on Aristotle’s Physics , using the Latin translations of Jean Argiropyle. Houzeau notes that the latter was augmented with treatises on the heavens, the earth and on meteors. Cf. Houzeau and Lancaster 2271 & 2272; not in Adams.