A public commission, in 1516 was appointed to find a way of ending the interminable strife between rival academic parties, they asked Eck to prepare new commentaries on Aristotle and Peter of Spain. And so in 1516 & 1517 he published These two commentaries on the Summulae of Petrus Hispanus, and on the Dialectics, Physics and lesser scientific works of Aristotle, which became the textbooks of the university.


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311J  Aristotel & Johann  Eck (1486-15430

Aristotelis Stragyrite [sic] Dialectica, cu[m] qui[n]q[ue] vocibus Porphyrii Phenicis, (Malchus), Argyropilo [sic] traductore, a Joanne Eckio theologo facili explanatione declarata adnotationibus compendiarijs illustrata ac scholastico exercitio explicata ..

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Ioan. Eckii … In summulas Petri Hispani extemporaria et succincta s[ed] succosa explanatio p[ro] sup[er]ioris Germaniae scholasticis.

Ad 1) [Augsburg] [Augustae Vindelicorum], Excusa in officina Millerana Augustæ Vindelicoru[m], ad V. Cal. Maias [27 Apr.] 1517.

Ad2) [Augsburg] Augustae Vindelicorum, ex officina Millerana, mense Maio 1516)   $6,900

Folio 12 x 8 ¼ inches.  Ad1) A-O6 P8 a-z6 : Aa-Gg6 Hh4 Ii6.  Ad2) A-S6, T-V4 (T4, V4 blank.  Both first Editions This copy is bound in a coeval pigskin binding over wooden boards both original clasps and catched, ornately blind stamped  in a of roll stamped floral motif as well as a small narrative made up of eight (postage sized) stamps. There are numerous wood cut diagrams and and two very interesting depictions of Communication (see cover and right) There are also two red and black Printers devices both Signed H.B., i.e. Hans Burgkmair. Of the: Imperial double-headed eagle with arms of Ingolstadt, Freiburg and Tübingen (cf. privilege granted by Emperor Maximilian, t.p. verso).

First book is a Translation of: Aristotles Organon (translation of Topics and De sophisticis elenchis  by Boethius; cf. Cranz, p. 197, 199. 

A public commission, in 1516 was appointed to find a way of ending the interminable strife between rival academic parties, they asked Eck to prepare new commentaries on Aristotle and Peter of Spain. And so in 1516 & 1517 he published These two commentaries on the Summulae of Petrus Hispanus, and on the Dialectics, Physics and lesser scientific works of Aristotle, which became the textbooks of the university.

The second book is Eck’s comments on Peter Spain. 

Ad 1 ) VD 16, A3530; BM STC German, 1455-1600, 43; Cranz, F.E. Aristotle 1501-1600 (2nd ed.), 107.830; Riley, L.W. Aristotle texts & commentaries, 146; Lohr D-F page 722  #1. (123:)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Ad 2) Adams; E-57, VD 16, J 671,  Burghard, A.C. Burgkmair,; 106; Metzler, J. Eck (in Tres orationes funebres, p. lxvii-cxxxii),;