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ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De anima [with De intellectu et intelligibili]. [123] (of [124]) leaves; lacking initial blank. Gothic type. bound with: JOHANNES DE JANDUNO. Quaestiones super libros De anima Aristotelis. [158] leaves. Gothic type. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 307x202 mm, contemporary binding of beech boards sewn on alum-tawed leather supports with leather panels in spine compartments, lacking catches and clasps; contents generally quite clean, with only tiny wormholes through beginning and end not impairing legibility, light dampstain in blank upper margin of first and last several leaves, scattered early marginalia, blank lower margin of a2 in first work restored; cloth folding case. (Venice: Reynaldus de Noviomagio, 1481); (Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 18 June 1480)
first edition and second edition, respectively, of medieval commentaries on Aristotle's treatise on the soul, De anima, the first book devoted to psychological phenomena. The polymathic scholastic philosopher Albertus Magnus (d. 1280) played a key role in the rediscovery and transmission of the Aristotelian corpus. Jean de Jandun (d. 1328) was the leading Parisian follower of the 12th-century Andalusian Muslim Aristotelian philosopher and commentator Averroes; his book on De anima was first printed in 1473. Hain-Copinger (+Add) 496, 7460; BMC V, 256, 237; Goff A221, J352; ISTC ij00352000, ij00352000.
