Bibliographia Paracelsica/BP.Erastus.1590-02

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BP.Erastus.1590-03
Arcangelo Mercenario: Dilucidationes obscuriorum locorum et quaestionum philosophiae naturalis Aristotelis eiusque interpretum. Leipzig: Hans Steinmann (Erben) for Ernst Vögelin (Erben), 1590.
8°. Signatures: )?(8 A–Z8 Aa–Mm8 Nn4 a–z8 aa8 = 484 fols. (968 pages) (autopsy).
[xvi], 548, [19], [1 blank]; 380, [1], [3 blank] pages (autopsy).
Main Language: Latin. —
Note:
The actual work first appeared in 1582 in Venice (Venice: Paolo Meietti 1582; 2nd ed. ibid. 1584; 3rd ed. ibid. 1588; the controversy between Erastus and Mercenario printed in the appendix first appeared in different publications in 1583.
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Title page
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Preface by Balthasar Gitler, addressed to the Reader; Latin
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Table of contents

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Index

sig. A1r–Mm2v ‖ p. 1–548
‘Multorum Aristotelis et quorundam Averrois difficilium locorum dilucidationes’, by Arcangelo Mercenario; Latin

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Index

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Notice by Typographus, addressed to Reader; Latin

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Errata

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sig. a2r–g5r ‖ p. 3–105
‘Disputatio de putredine’, by Thomas Erastus; Latin
Reprinted from: BP.Erastus.1580-03

sig. a2r–a2v ‖ p. 3–4 [2 pages]
Preface by Thomas Erastus, addressed to the Reader; Latin

sig. g5v–h5r ‖ p. 106–121
‘Theses de putredine’, by Thomas Erastus; Latin
Reprinted from: BP.Erastus.1580-03

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Preface by Thomas Erastus, addressed to the Reader; Latin

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sig. h6r–m2r ‖ p. 123–179
‘De putredine disputatio adversus Thomam Erastum’, by Arcangelo Mercenario; Latin

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Table of contents

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sig. m3r–s5r ‖ p. 181–281
‘Ad Archangeli Mercenarii Philosophi Patavini disputationem de putredine responsio’, by Thomas Erastus; Latin

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Dedication by Thomas Erastus, addressed to Theodor Zwinger; Latin

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sig. s6r–aa8v ‖ p. 283–380
‘Ad Erasti responsionem secunda de putredine disputatio’, by Arcangelo Mercenario; Latin