Manuscript fragment on parchment of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni Aretino).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in hybrida libraria with notarial influence., and Decoration: 8-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and purple; 3-line initials at the beginning of each capitulum alternate red and purple; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in same script as text; first line of each book written in larger minuscule; paragraph marks alternate red and purple; running headlines in red and purple; punctuated with the punctus and, for major pauses, the punctus versus; another hand in black ink made some corrections and added punctuation, including the punctus elevatus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on paper (trimmed) of Aristoteles, Oeconomica, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: bird (Briquet 12127?)., The main scribe (artt. 1-2) writes Gothica Hybrida (often close to Gothica Semitextualis) Libraria under strong Humanistic influence, visible in the use of Roman Capitals and straight s in final position., Space and partly guide-letters for a few initials were provided but the decoration is missing. In the space for the first initial (f. 1r) a coat of arms (silver, with a bend gules) was afterwards drawn., and Binding: Twentieth century. Half brown leather over pasteboard, the covers covered with brown paper. On the spine the gold-tooled title "ARISTOTLE . OECONOMICA . MS. 15TH CENT.".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle. and Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Aristotle Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, ca. 1243-1316 Heredes Octaviani Scoti ac Sociorum, printer Petrus, de Arvernia, Bishop of Clermont, d. 1304 Placidus, of Vigevano Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Published / Created:
Vigesimo q[ui]nto supra millesimum quinquies[que] centesimum. duodecimo calendas Septembris. [1525]
Call Number:
2005 +122
Image Count:
93
Alternative Title:
Parva naturalia
Description:
Bookplate: Ex libris Starkenstein. and Leaves printed on both sides, in double columns.
Publisher:
Mandato sumptibus[que] heredum nobilis viri d[omi]ni Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetiensis: ac socio[rum]...,
Manuscript on paper of Aristoteles, Poetica, anonymous Latin translation of chapters 1-7. On f. 2r the translator has replaced Homer and Empedocles, cited by Aristotle, by Virgil and Lucretius ("Nihil tamen commune est Virgilio et Lucretio nisi carmen").
Description:
In Latin and Greek., Watermark: coat of arms with a bend, surmounted by a star and with a roundel depending from it, not in Briquet., Script: Copied by one scribe in small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria; words in Greek written by the same hand., Undecorated., and Binding: Sewn on a gilded leather thong; no cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 Alexander, of Aphrodisias Aristotle Averroës, 1126-1198 Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494 Zimara, Marco Antonio, active 15th century-16th century
Published / Created:
MDLXVIII [1568]
Call Number:
2013 592
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
De mirabilibus mundi., De secretis mulierum., Liber aggregationis., Problemata Alexandri Aphrodisiei., and Problemata Aristotelis ac philosophorvm medicorvmquè complurium, ad varias quaestiones cognoscendas, & ad naturalem philosophiam discutiendam maximè spectantia
Description:
From title page verso: Marci Antonii Zimarae Sanctipertrinatis problemata his addita, vna cum trecentis Aristotelis & Auerrois Propositionibus, suis in locis insertis -- Alexandri Aphrodisei, Super questionibus nonnullis physicis, solutionum liber, Angelo Politiano interprete -- Item Alberti cognomento Magni De secretis mulierum, tractatus huic materiae non inconueniens -- Eiusdem De virtutibus herbarum, lapidum & animalium quorundam libellus -- Praeter haec De mirabilibus mundi ac de quibusdam effectibus causatis à quibusdam animalibus., Ownership inscription of Bernhardus Pellion(?) of Wiesen dated 1589. Some scattered manuscript notes and underlinings in first two gatherings., and Signatures: A-P⁸ (P8 verso blank).
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Pellion, Bernhardus--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine--Early works to 1800, and Physiology--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I: Aristoteles, Topica. First folio of De sophisticis elenchis inserted after f. 137. Many folios replaced on 16th-century paper. Part II: 1) Heraclius (attributed author), Brontologion (Rules for interpreting thunder). 2) Ezra the Prophet (attributed author), Prognosis (Weather prophecies). 3) Stories from the Old Testament. The 2 parts of the book were probably bound together in Venice about 1500
Description:
In Greek., Headings in red., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Italian blind-tooled calf with unidentified arms in gilt on both covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, and Science, Medieval