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1. Oeconomica
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 671
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Oeconomica
2. Opera varia
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 88
- Image Count:
- 184
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thin, pliable) of Aristotle, 1) Priora analytica, Lat. tr. Boethius. 2) Posteriora analytica, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus (ca. 1130-40). 3) Books I-III of the Ethica Nicomachea. 4) De anima, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus. 5) De anima (from the Parva naturalia), Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a small neat gothic text script, above top line and with uncrossed tironian et. Marginal and interlinear annotations, contemporary or slightly later, in a variety of scholarly hands; annotations written in ink, crayon and lead, some very faded and barely legible., Attractive flourished initials, red and blue divided with penwork designs in the same colors, mark the beginning of arts. 1-4; first few words of each of these texts written in red and blue alternating majuscules. For minor text divisions 2-line initials red or blue with designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks in red (or sometimes alternating red and blue). Headings and instructions to rubricator in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Parchment case binding made from a bifolium of a missal (Germany, 15th century) containing text for the end of the Secret for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost through part of the Gospel reading for the 12th Sunday. Remains of title, in ink, on spine. Pink (faded red?) edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia
3. Poetica
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 708
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poetica
