SCOTUS, Michael (before 1200 - ca. 1235). Liber physiognomiae . [Venice: Jacobus de Fivizano, Lunensis], 1477. 4 o (209 x 142 mm). Collation: a 1 0 b-h 8 i 6 K 6 (a1r contents, a4r text, K5v colophon.) 78 leaves. 23 lines. Type 112R. Initial spaces with guide letters. (Some margins darkened [smoke damage?] on preliminaries, some marginal soiling, minor foxing.) Eighteenth-century speckled calf (rebacked, rebacking slightly faded). Provenance : a few early marginalia. FIRST EDITION. Michael Scot's contributions to Western science and philosophy include his translations from the Arabic of Aristotle's De animalibus , ibn Sina's Abbreviatio de animalibus and ibn Rushd's commentaries on Aristotle's works (which he introduced to Europe). He is perhaps better known for his popular Liber physiognomiae , the third work in his quasi-scientific trilogy, the manuscript of which was presented to Frederick II of Sicily on the occasion of his marriage. The title is somewhat misleading as only about half of the work is devoted to the subject. "Most of what appears as book I in the printed editions contains a detailed treatise on generation of human beings, with anatomical and physiological descriptions, information on the best time for conception, on sexual behavior, and on the state of the fetus during each of the nine months after conception. The rest of book I deals with differences between genera and species of animals. Books II and III contain the Physiognomia proper (apart from some chapters on dreams and auguries from sneezes). In these a systematic survey of the different parts of the body, in connection with the basic or other qualities affecting them, is meant to show how souls are intrinsically dependent for their natures on the bodies that they inhabit: 'animae sequuntur corpus'" (DSB). Goff M-551; BMC V, 242; HC *14550; Klebs 899.1; Osler, Incunabula medica pp. 26 and 124; Stillwell Science 453; Norman 1507.
SCOTUS, Michael (before 1200 - ca. 1235). Liber physiognomiae . [Venice: Jacobus de Fivizano, Lunensis], 1477. 4 o (209 x 142 mm). Collation: a 1 0 b-h 8 i 6 K 6 (a1r contents, a4r text, K5v colophon.) 78 leaves. 23 lines. Type 112R. Initial spaces with guide letters. (Some margins darkened [smoke damage?] on preliminaries, some marginal soiling, minor foxing.) Eighteenth-century speckled calf (rebacked, rebacking slightly faded). Provenance : a few early marginalia. FIRST EDITION. Michael Scot's contributions to Western science and philosophy include his translations from the Arabic of Aristotle's De animalibus , ibn Sina's Abbreviatio de animalibus and ibn Rushd's commentaries on Aristotle's works (which he introduced to Europe). He is perhaps better known for his popular Liber physiognomiae , the third work in his quasi-scientific trilogy, the manuscript of which was presented to Frederick II of Sicily on the occasion of his marriage. The title is somewhat misleading as only about half of the work is devoted to the subject. "Most of what appears as book I in the printed editions contains a detailed treatise on generation of human beings, with anatomical and physiological descriptions, information on the best time for conception, on sexual behavior, and on the state of the fetus during each of the nine months after conception. The rest of book I deals with differences between genera and species of animals. Books II and III contain the Physiognomia proper (apart from some chapters on dreams and auguries from sneezes). In these a systematic survey of the different parts of the body, in connection with the basic or other qualities affecting them, is meant to show how souls are intrinsically dependent for their natures on the bodies that they inhabit: 'animae sequuntur corpus'" (DSB). Goff M-551; BMC V, 242; HC *14550; Klebs 899.1; Osler, Incunabula medica pp. 26 and 124; Stillwell Science 453; Norman 1507.
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