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Aristotle's Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, in the Latin translations by the Dominican William of Moerbeke from the Greek, followed by the first page of the Oeconomica, a work commonly attributed to Aristotle, in the Latin translation known as the translatio Durandi, attributed to Durand of Auvergne. The Aristotle texts are preceded by a table of contents for the Nicomachean ethics. The outer bifolium of the first gathering (before f. 1 and after f. 10), containing the beginning of the Metaphysics, a gathering after f. 22, and two leaves after f. 72 are all lacking. Many early marginal notes, some affected by cropping, and occasional manicules.
Support: parchment; Extent: 78 leaves : 310 x 220 (190-228 x 123-154) mm. bound to 325 x 228 mm; Collation: Parchment, ii + 78; 1¹²(-2) 2-3¹² 4⁸ 5¹² 6¹⁰ 7⁸ 7⁸(-2). Catchwords on the last versos of gatherings 5-7 (second work), lower center.
Written in 2 columns of 36-37 lines (f. 1r-42v), 53 lines (f. 43r-44r), 45-46 lines (f. 44v-77v), and 44 lines (f. 78r-78v); ruled in faint ink (f. 1r-42v) and lead (f. 43r-78v) with vertical bounding lines.
Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand (f. i recto-ii recto) and Gothic book script by at least 3 hands (f. 1r-42v, 43r-44r, 44v-78v).
In first part of manuscript (f. 1r-42v), 2 5-line (f. 7v, 12v) and 6 4-line (f. 6v, 14r, 22v, 27v, 31v, 38v) puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork infilling and extensions, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork and extensions, paragraph marks in red or blue, running titles in alternating red and blue letters, capitals touched with red, minimal rubrics in red; in second part of manuscript (f. 43r-78v), partial illuminated inhabited bar border (f. 43r), 1 7-line (f. 78r) illuminated inhabited initial, 2 5-line (f. 49r-inhabited, 69r) and 3 4-line (f. 46r, 62r-inhabited, 64v) illuminated initials, and 1 3-line (f. 78r) illuminated initial, 2-line initials in red with purple penwork or blue with red penwork. One initial has been cut from the manuscript at the beginning of the second work (f. 43r).
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Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from titles for predominant works (in explicits, f. 42v and 77v).
1. f.i recto-ii recto: [Table of contents for Metaphysics, Books 1-12]
2. f.1r-42v: Liber metaphisice Aristotelis nove translationis.
3. f.43r-77v: Liber ethicorum Aristotilis.
4.f.78r-78v: [Economica fragment]
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 in the late 13th century, with initials done in France.
Late 15th- or early 16th-century Florentine leather over wooden boards with panels ruled in saltires and stamped with Greek-cross tools; remains of 2 clasps and a chiseled hasp-mark for chaining at the bottom edge of the lower cover.
Latin
Inscription dated 1368 (f. i recto); sold at Sotheby's, 10 Dec. 1980, lot 79, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2009.
Italy
Written in Italy in the late 13th century, with initials done in France.
Latin
Inscription dated 1368
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2009.
Aristotle's Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, in the Latin translations by the Dominican William of Moerbeke from the Greek, followed by the first page of the Oeconomica, a work commonly attributed to Aristotle, in the Latin translation known as the translatio Durandi, attributed to Durand of Auvergne. The Aristotle texts are preceded by a table of contents for the Nicomachean ethics. The outer bifolium of the first gathering (before f. 1 and after f. 10), containing the beginning of the Metaphysics, a gathering after f. 22, and two leaves after f. 72 are all lacking. Many early marginal notes, some affected by cropping, and occasional manicules.
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from titles for predominant works (in explicits, f. 42v and 77v).
1. f.i recto-ii recto: [Table of contents for Metaphysics, Books 1-12]
2. f.1r-42v: Liber metaphisice Aristotelis nove translationis.
3. f.43r-77v: Liber ethicorum Aristotilis.
4.f.78r-78v: [Economica fragment]
Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand (f. i recto-ii recto) and Gothic book script by at least 3 hands (f. 1r-42v, 43r-44r, 44v-78v).
In first part of manuscript (f. 1r-42v), 2 5-line (f. 7v, 12v) and 6 4-line (f. 6v, 14r, 22v, 27v, 31v, 38v) puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork infilling and extensions, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork and extensions, paragraph marks in red or blue, running titles in alternating red and blue letters, capitals touched with red, minimal rubrics in red; in second part of manuscript (f. 43r-78v), partial illuminated inhabited bar border (f. 43r), 1 7-line (f. 78r) illuminated inhabited initial, 2 5-line (f. 49r-inhabited, 69r) and 3 4-line (f. 46r, 62r-inhabited, 64v) illuminated initials, and 1 3-line (f. 78r) illuminated initial, 2-line initials in red with purple penwork or blue with red penwork. One initial has been cut from the manuscript at the beginning of the second work (f. 43r).
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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