It deals with the question of the microcosmus and the macrocosmus and contains seven diagrams showing the various interrelations between the elements and the prime qualities, parts of the body, and zodiacal and planetary figures.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Physical geography --Early works to 1800
Quae hoc in uolumine tractantur : Bessarionis ... In calumniatore[m] Platonis libri quatuor ... Correctio librorum Platonis De legibus Georgio Trapezuntio interprete ... De natura & arte aduersus eundem Trapezunti
Publisher:
[In aedib. Aldi Romani]
Subject (Name):
Gazes, Theodoros, ca. 1400-ca. 1475, George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486, Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515, and Plato. Laws
Each page contains a paraphrase in verse from the Metamorphoses, accompanied by an illus. and surrounded by a border. The illus. are attributed to Bernard Salomon.
Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).