Paruor(um) logicalium liber, succincto epitomatis compendio (con)tinens: [...] Petri Hispani tractatus priores sex, & [...] Marsilij logices docume(n)ta cum utilissimis commentarijs per [...] Conradum Pschlacher [...] Vienne Austrie [...].

4to: [8]-240 ff. (single wormholes throughout, some wormtracks esp. in top margin, occ. marg.soiling or dampstaining).

16th-c. blind-stamped half pigskin over wood, edges bevelled inside, spine on 3 raised bands, decorated metal clasps and catches (wormholes). Good copy.

Extr. rare ed. of a compilation of treatises on the so-called “Parva naturalia” or “Tractatus de proprietatibus terminorum”, a widespread medieval university textbook of Aristotelian and scholastic logic. It contains texts by (1) Petrus Hispanus (13th c.), mostly identified with the Portuguese scholar Peter Juliani, who was elected Pope John XXI in 1276; (2) Marsilius of Inghen (1340-1396), a Dutch scholastic philosopher in Paris and Heidelberg; (3) Konrad Pschlacher (fl. 1512-1516), a Viennese philosopher. Large woodcut publisher’s and imperial marks at the end. A number of woodcut diagrams. Title in red and black; text in gothic type. Ref. VD-16 J-672 [3: Budapest, München, Wien]. - Not in Adams, BnF, STC German (BL). Prov. 16th-c. ownership entries on front flyleaf and title "Fabianus de Rudolphis ... [15]79" - a parish priest in Bruck, Upper Bavaria, in 1597 sent to prison for his “ergerliches, ungeistliches Leben ... mit seiner Concubina, dabei er etliche Kinder erzeugt, verhängt und befleckt hatt, sondern auch eheliche Burgers Weibern in Unehren ... nachtrachtet” - Wiedemann, Die reformatorische Bewegung im Bisthumb Passau, 1882, p. 545). - Old ms. notes, esp. on ff. 1r, l4v-8r. - Bookpl. removed.