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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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Profile portrait of Aristotle wearing medieval garb and skullcap with Latin text surrounding it.

Aristotle

A woodcut of Aristotle on the title page of his De Anima (Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1560).
The text reads: Vera Aristotelis Stagiretae efigies, peripateticae disciplinae principis (True image of Aristotle of Stagireta, the prince of the peripatetic disciplines).

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