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PHILOPONUS, JOANNES. In Posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis Comentaria. Greek text. 295, [25] pages. Folio, 279x181 mm, early 16th-century Breslau binding of blind-tooled brown calf over pasteboard with concentric roll borders on covers, spine ends restored; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, free endpapers lacking. (Venice: Aldus, March 1504)
first edition in the original greek of a commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics by a 6th-century Neoplatonist. The outermost roll border, incorporating the monogram I H and dated 1525, is found on books bound for Johann Hess (1490-1547), the Lutheran theologian and first Protestant pastor of Breslau. Renouard, page 45(1); New UCLA 80; Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel I, 40.
