Eis organon Aristotelous.

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The standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logic, with Porphyry's Isagoge added, which serves as a kind of general introduction.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Organon
Main Author: Aristotle
Other Authors: Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515 (Editor, Printer), Bondinus, Alexander, active 15th century (Editor), Forteguerri, Scipione, 1466-1515 (Writer of supplementary textual content), Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305
Language:Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Latin
Language and/or Writing System:
In Greek, with prefatory letter, colophon, privilege, and table of contents in Latin.
Published: [Venice : Aldus Manutius, 1495]
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Categoriae.
Logic > Early works to 1800.
Predicate (Logic) > Early works to 1800.
Marginalia > 16th century.
Marginalia.
Inscriptions > 16th century.
Inscriptions.
Countermarks > 15th century.
Countermarks.
Printed waste > 15th century.
Printed waste > 16th century.
Printed waste.
Genre:
Early works to 1800.
Marginalia
Marginalia.
Inscriptions
Inscriptions.
Countermarks
Countermarks.
Printed waste
Printed waste.
Ownership and Custodial History:
MSU: Contemporary marginalia in an italic hand (probably 16th-century, mostly Latin, some Greek) through the first half of the book, very heavy in several areas.
MSU: Former owner's inscription on front fly-leaf recto dated 1534 (struck through), likely an acquisition note.
MSU: Nine-line inscription in Greek on front fly-leaf recto.
MSU: Obliterated, but faintly visible, inscription on leaf A1r.
MSU: Initials (LZ[?]) written in ink on rear fly-leaf.
MSU: Pencilled autograph on rear fly-leaf.
MSU: A few numeric and alpha-numeric annotations on the endpapers.
MSU: Handwritten Greek running titles throughout.
Additional provenance information available in MSS 466 box 2 folder 85.
Local Note:
MSU: Last two words on leaf a7r printed correctly as "apodeiktikais episēmais".
MSU: Head-pieces and initials hand-colored on leaves A3r and B5r.
MSU: Printed on at least three different stocks of paper, as evidenced by three different countermarks.
Binding Information:
MSU: Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over thick wooden boards (probably German); remnant of a single clasp; printed waste used as paste-downs, from a 16th-century or late 15th-century edition of the "Epistolae et evangelia" (or "Plenarium") in German and Latin.
Physical Description:468 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm (folio)
Format: Book

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Call Number: XX folio PA3893 .O7 1495
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