Burlaeus (Gualtherus) [Walter Burley] De vita et moribus philosophorum [short edition], collation: [a⁶ b-i⁸ k⁶], 75 ff. (of 76, lacking initial blank), 35 lines, Gothic type, a few initials in pen and red or plain pen, initial strokes in red, initial blank replaced with a 15th century manuscript f. in a cursive hand 'Hic est gesta et dicta secundi phi.', rubricated recto, early ink marginalia in a few hands, including fingerposts, k⁵ repaired hole in text, k⁶ torn with significant loss to text and repaired, a few marginal repairs, water-stained, some spotting, 19th century boards, rubbed, folio (278 x 188mm.), [Nuremberg], Friedrich Creussner, 30 June, 1479.

⁂ Rare edition at auction of this collection of ancient writers with excerpts, including Aristotle, Archimedes, Euripides, Homer, and Virgil. Walter Burley (c.1275-1344) English philosopher and logician and fellow of Merton College Oxford (until c.1310) and the Sorbonne.

Provenance: 'Caesarei Collegii Soc; Jesu Prag.' (later ink inscription to head of a²); M.H. Bloxam (ink inscription to front free endpaper, dated January, 1842).

Literature: BMC II, 451; Goff B-1321; GW 5787; HC 4124; Bod-inc B-612; BSB-Ink B-995; ISTC ib01321000.