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[HISTORY] - Early Physics in Print: Title-Page from 1516 Edition of Saxony and Buridan’s Commentaries - NOBLE FRAGMENT - TITLE-PAGE ONLY – ALBERT OF SAXONY, and Jean BURIDAN. Questiones et decisiones, physicales insignium virorum. [Paris, Josse Bade and Conrad Resch, February 1516]. Folio (255x173 mm), only the title-page leaf, title with Josse Bade classic woodcut device depicting a printery, within an elaborate architectural woodcut border, mounted on a cardboard sheet. Early ownership manuscript annotations. Titlepage of the original edition of the commentaries of the British theologian Georg Lokert (1485 -1547), assisted by William Manderston and Gervais Waim, on the eight books of physics of Albert of Saxony, his three books of the sky and the world, his two books on generation and corruption, the four books of meteors of Thimon, and the books on meaning, memory, dreams, etc. of Buridan. Moreau, vol. II, no. 1245. - Renouard, Josse Bade, vol. III, pp. 3-4.(1)