[DCRM-L] Puzzled by LC note re Hain 1522 / Pellechet 1084

[John Lancaster]

I'd suggest that a semi-colon or period should follow Hain - that is, 
that the Hain reference was not intended to relate to the reading of 
leaf 2/1r, line 1.

The reading is on the first leaf of the second gathering, at least 
according to the collation given in Bod-Inc and BSB, and from the 
digitized BSB copy.

That BSB copy clearly has "spēs" with a final "s", not a variant final 
form of "m".

So perhaps there were a couple of press-corrections.

But aside from the ambiguous Hain reference, the note would seem likely 
to be accurate.

John Lancaster

> Noble, Richard <mailto:richard_noble at brown.edu>
> January 6, 2017 at 12:43 PM
> [Subject designed to facilitate instant deletion by those to whom it 
> means nothing]
>
> I am puzzled by LC's note in its record for Thomas Aquinas,  Sentencia 
> libri de anima (Venice: Renner, 1472):
>
>       Agrees with Hain, differs from Pellechet, p. [21], line 1: LC 
> "spēs", Pellechet "opēs".
>
> Pellechet does indeed quote the first line of that leaf, as a kind of 
> milepost (it's the first leaf of the third gathering), and gives 
> "opes"; but Hain's entry has nothing to say about this leaf at all. I 
> don't know whether this is Pellechet misquoting, or accidentally 
> turning up an isolated press-variant. The correct reading is actually 
>  for the contraction of "speciem"--the final "letter" is not "s" but 
> the variant final form of "m": the passage reads, without 
> contractions, "Unde coacti sunt ponere ideas per quarum 
> participationem et res naturales specium sortiuntur ...").
>
> Is it worth trying to read this cataloger's mind? I'm working with 
> this record at present.
>
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