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217 - Themistios. *Paraphraseos in parva naturalia Aristo*. Translated by Hermolao Barbaro. Paris, Calvarin, 1535. Divination through Dreams in Aristotle’s 1535 Edition
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Themistios. *Paraphraseos in parva naturalia Aristo*. Translated by Hermolao Barbaro. Paris, Calvarin, 1535. Divination through Dreams in Aristotle’s 1535 Edition Themistios. *Paraphraseos in parva naturalia Aristo*. Translated by Hermolao Barbaro. Paris, Calvarin, 1535. Octavo (170 x 105 mm); 45 leaves. Title page with the title within a woodcut frame; woodcut plates depicting Aristotle and Phyllis (the last blank page is missing; foxing along the lower margin). Modern half-parchment binding, smooth spine with title embossed in black letters. Ownership note by John Murdoch, 1965. A decidedly rare edition of Themistius’s paraphrases of Aristotle’s *Parva naturalia*, in the text interpreted and carefully emended by Hermolao Barbaro. The collection addresses themes such as memory and reminiscence, sleep and wakefulness, dreams, and divination through dreams, exploring the boundary between natural phenomena and the possibility of glimpsing future events in sleep. Divination through dreams in a 1535 edition of Aristotle
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