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Profile portrait of Aristotle wearing medieval garb and skullcap with Latin text surrounding it.
Page of text with manuscript initial letter 'E' in red ink
Page of Greek text with woodcut headpiece and initial
The frontispiece is a woodcut image showing a scholar in a library at a desk writing with a quill pen with a hirsute nude woman standing to his left and a black child standing to her left with a window behind them showing the sun shining in.

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Page of text with manuscript initial letter 'E' in red ink

De animalibus (On the Animals)

Aristotle. De animalibus. (Venice: Johann of Cologne, 1476)
This first Latin edition of Aristotle’s De animalibus was translated by Theodore Gaza, a Greek refugee to Italy after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The initials are hand colored.

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