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P. de Abano — Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Convent of Austin friars.


Provenance: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Convent of Austin friars.
Location: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy
Shelfmark: Ottoboni lat. 1764
Author/Title: P. de Abano
Type of evidence: b: evidence from binding or elements of a binding typical of a particular library, or pastedowns bearing evidence of provenance
Notes on evidence:

Label from the old binding attached inside the cover is uniform with the label of Ottob. lat. 1603: it bears the letter 'F' in red and the title 'Coment' super problemata aristotelis' on another line.

Flyleaves, fols. 1, 2, 227, 228, are four leaves of a Digest, Bks XI, XII, in an English hand: 2 cols, 48-lines.

'Anno domini M' CCCo 18o 6a die augusti completa fuit scriptura huius exposicionis per manum Magistri Iohannis de Genduno parisius in domo solarium de nauarra Deo gracias'.

Contents of the book:

Peter de Abano, Commentary on ps. Aristotle, Problemata.

Date: A.D. 1318
Pressmark: F
Ownership:

Marcello Cervini (1501–1555), cardinal, his no. 116.