(Q8793)
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Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295
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Burr, Charles W. 1861-1944
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Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800
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Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics--Early works to 1800
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[1500?]
16. century
1500Gregorian
1500Gregorian
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Extent: 33 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 285 x 197 (208 x 115) mm bound to 293 x 201 mm
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Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 33 + i (modern paper); 1¹²(+1), 2⁵, 3⁵; 1-33; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
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Many stains and smudges. Slight wormhole damage, obliterating a few words of text on the first few folios. Edges starting to fray and tear in a few places. Binding and cover in good condition.
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Title from opening rubric (f. 1r): Qui comenza lo libro chiamato leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile pieno de moralita Iesus Cristus.
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Ms. codex.
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Layout: Written in 46 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
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Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
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Decoration: Contains 46 large decorated initials throughout, in a variety of colors; decorated with complicated interlacings of serrated branchwork with cone-like fruit; two of the initials have a small coat of arms in the center (f. 1r, 15v); headings to the prologue and the various sections written in red, purple and green; capitals touched with yellow.
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Binding: Modern half vellum.
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Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
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This text, with contemporary foliation 1-33, is missing its final leaf and was once followed by a treatise on the cardinal virtues based on Valerius Maximus and others, foliated 35-67, now the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Marston 43 (Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick).
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Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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