Aristotle - J. Velcurio & J. Schegk
In Physicam Aristotelis … De animae dialogus … — Tübingen 1542
1.400 €Ioannis Velcurionis commentarii in universam Physicam Aristotelis libri quattuor … Quibus accessit certo consilio D. Iacobi Schegk … de principatu Animae dialogus, nunquam antehac excusus …— Tubingae ab Ulricho Morhardo Anno M. D. LXII.
Tübingen, Ulrich Morhard I, 1542
First edition of Schegk’s commentary on De anima.
8vo (168 x 97 mm). (6), 300, (26) leaves. A few marginal annotations and underlinings. Last leaves with a wormole in outer lower corner. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, two clasps. Minor repairs to head of spine and lower egde of uppler board. Initials C G and 1544 on front cover. Der upper plate shows the birth of Christ, the lower one David and Bathesba, both sourrounded by a role of female figures (Lucretia and others). A nice copy.
Provenance: C G on upper board, and Ex Lib. Georg Johannes Scrivius on title-page. On the lower paste-down 17 lines in contemporary manuscript, explaining the names of the schools of philosophy according to the places and buildings in Athens, where they taught (Zenon/Stoa, Aristotle/Peripatos, Plato/Academy). A second note in a different hand on the the unchangingness of the laws of coelestial motions.
VD15 B-2026; ustc 667687.
Johannes Velcurio (1490-1534; his name originally is Johannes Bernhardi of Feldkirch in Tyrol), professor of rhetorics and physics at the university of Wittenberg, highly esteamed colleague of Melanchthon. His posthumously published commentary to Aristotle’s physics was an extremely successful book, twenty five editions were published until 1595, twenty in Basel, Erfurt, Cologne, Tübingen, Strasbourg, and Wittenberg, four in Lyon, and one even in London.
The fourth book is dedicated to Aristotle’s De anima, which is understood as part of Natural Science.
Jakob Schegk (i. e. Jakob Degen, 1511-1587), learned and lectured philosophy and medicin at Tübingen university. In 1544 he edited a Greek edition of Aristotle’s De anima, and in 1546 published his own commentary on the Physics. Edited Theognides, Arrianus, was involved in the 3 volumes Latin opera of Aristotle (Basel 1542), published on logic, medicin, theology, against Petrus Ramus (Hyperaspistes Responsi, ad quatuor Epistolas Petri Rami contra se aeditas, 1570), against the Antitrinitarians, and some more.