Manuscript on parchment of Aristoteles, Ethica ad Nicomachum, in the Latin translation attributed to Robert Grosseteste.
Description:
Binding: Modern European parchment-covered boards, backstrip calligraphically lettered in gothic script with the author's name and title., Headlines throughout in alternating red and blue capitals, chapter numbers in margins also in alternating colors, and large capitals at beginnings of books and chapters of the text in red or blue, with extensive filiform decoration bordering the left margin in the contrasting color on leaves with such capitals, all the work of a rubricator, performed separately from the writing of the text. Book and chapter headings in red by the scribes throughout., Mellon MS 143, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven, 1957. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written by two scribes employing differing forms of Gothica textualis, the first having written the first quire, the second the remainder of the codex.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Subject (Topic):
Ethics, Ancient, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Two diagrams with accompanying text. 2) Note on vows. 3) Petrus Cantor (d. 1197), De tropis loquendi. 4) Table of the subdivisions of anima. 5) Theological note. 6) Note on merit. 7) Theological treatise in four books. 8) Notes in plummet. 9) Treatise on vision and gifts ("dotes").
Description:
Binding: Original (?) binding in ... over wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs. Remnants of four pairs of leather ties, two at the front and one at the top and at the tail., Script: Copied by various small hands, writing highly abbreviated Gothica Textualis Currens or Libraria. In some sections documentary cursive influence is visible (especially in looped d)., and The decoration is unevenly spread. Red paragraph marks, underlining and headings; some plain red initials; alternating red and blue flourished initials with penwork in the contrasting colour in art. 7; initials missing in art. 9.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Medieval, and Scholia