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Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis : eiusdem De primo rerum principio tractatus : atqz theoremata

Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308, O'Fihely, Maurice, Archbishop of Tuam, 1463?-1513, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · Impressa Uenetijs : Mandato [et symbol] exp esis ... Octaviani Scoti ... per Bonetum Locatell u · 3 pictures

This is an incunabulum of Scotus's scholastic commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics, printed in Venice around 1497 by Bonetus Locatellus for the Scotus printing house, with an added treatise by Maurice O'Fihely. The first picture is a decorated initial, the second a printer's device with the letters OSM beneath a cross, and the third an armillary sphere carried by a kneeling Atlas, a woodcut that a designer could adapt for emblematic, cosmic or astronomical motifs.

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