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[SCIENCE AND MEDICINE] - EARLY 16th-CENTURY LOGIC TREATISE BY A LEADING MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR - VENETO Paolo (1368 - 1428) - [PHILOSOPHY – LOGIC] — Paulus Venetus (Paulus Venetus / Paolo Veneto). Tractatus summularum logice. Impressum Venetiis per Petrum de Quarengiis Pergomensem, die 7 Novembris 1506. 4to (approx. 215 x 161 mm); contemporary full vellum rebacked, slightly darkened and with minor wear. Gothic type in two columns; final leaf with colophon and register. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on title. 48 ff. Illustrated and complete Rare early printed edition (1506) of this important scholastic treatise on logic by Paulus Venetus (c. 1370–1429), a Venetian philosopher and theologian. His Summulae Logicales was widely used as a textbook in late medieval and Renaissance universities. Paulus Venetus was a major figure in late scholasticism and served as lector at Padua. His logical treatises remained central to academic curricula well into the 16th century.