Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 1775
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 11 (Miscellany); Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 4v
Notes:
This was an early printed edition of Secreta Secretorum (Secret of Secrets), a popular medievel work. attributed to Aristotle. by Albertus Magnus. See Lynn Thorndike, "The Latin Pseudo-Aristotle and Medieval Occult Science," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 21 (1922): 229-258, esp. pp. 248-249.
Valued at 1d in Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 10
The Museum sale broadside reads: "Aristotelis et Alberti Magni editio antiqua, imperfect."
Title Information:
Secreta secretorum
Imprint Information:
Paris, 1520
