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Four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato's Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle's De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo's De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes's De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.
Support: paper; Extent: 341 leaves : 203 x 144 (130 x 73) mm. bound to 214 x 146 mm; Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 340 + i (contemporary paper); [1-340]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 23 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.
Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; diagrams throughout.
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).
2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).
3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).
4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
Written in Italy, ca. 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Contemporary tooled calf.
Latin
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.
Italy
Written in Italy, ca. 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Latin
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff
Four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato's Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle's De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo's De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes's De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto).
2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch).
3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r).
4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo.
Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands.
Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; diagrams throughout.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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