Aristotle's Metaphysics

From the Common Library of San Francisco of Seville

CONTAINED HEREIN IS ARISTOTLE’S
most flawlessly corrected and recognized work on metaphysicsThe branch of philosophy dealing with the fundamental nature of reality and being., successfully
rendered into Latin by the most illustrious prince,
Bessarion, Cardinal of Nicaea Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472) was a Greek scholar and Cardinal whose translations were vital in bringing original Greek philosophy to the Western world.. It is divided into fourteen
books, with the addition of the commentary on the
first twelve books by Argyropylus of ByzantiumJohn Argyropoulos, a primary figure in the revival of Greek learning in 15th-century Italy..
This is, without doubt, a rare and
hitherto long-desired work.
May God the Greatest,
who is celebrated under
the name of "Being" itself
in this work, make this
very study profitable
for His own praise
and for the
knowledge
of all.

Does not need to be expurgated A note from a religious censor, likely during the Spanish Inquisition, indicating the book contains no forbidden material. [signature]

THEOPHRASTUS’s first book of metaphysics Theophrastus was Aristotle's successor as the head of the Peripatetic school.

ALSO A METAPHYSICAL

A circular purple ink library stamp containing the text "UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SEVILLE."

This exceptional work of Aristotle is offered for sale at the shop of Henri Estienne Latin: Henricum Stephanum, a famous Parisian printer and scholar. located opposite the School of Decrees The Law School at the University of Paris.. From his workshop, most carefully reviewed, it was issued in the Year of CHRIST—who exists as the supreme Being of beings—1515, on the twentieth day of October.