La Metaura

Manuscript copy
Date: 15th c.

Work ref: 108
Manuscript ID: 46
Type: Prose

Author

Anonymous

Dedicatee

Visual elements


Related to Aristotle's

Meteorology

Branch of Philosophy

Natural Philosophy
—Astronomy

Foliation

ff. 1r-69v

Seen

No



Physical Description

Paper; mm. 300_230; ff. [ii], 3, 82, [i]. Gothic notary script. The ms. contains 1. La Metaura (ff. 1r-69v); 2. 'Capitoli della pace conclusa nel 1428 tra Firenze, Venezia e il duca di Milano' (ff. 70v-71v); 3. 'Orazione tenuta da Leonardo d'Arezzo, cancelliere del comune di Firenze, per la consegna del bastone al capitano Niccolò da Tolentino' (ff. 72r-73v); 4. Latin letter by the Comune of Florence to the King of France, 1404 (ff. 74r-75r); 5. Florentine ambassadors' speech to Ladislao, king of Sicily (ff. 76r-79v); 6. Letter by the Comune of Genova to Filippo Maria Visconti duke of Milan, 1435 (f. 80r-v); 7. Letter by Filippo Maria Visconti to the Signoria of Venice (f. 81r-v); 8. Peace treaty between Venice, Florence and Milan, 1441 (f. 85r-v).

Bibliography

Cecioni 1889: 74; Librandi 1995: 122-124.

Digitized copy

Online references




Original Record Author
Eugenio Refini
Record Last Updated On
08/03/2013
Record Last Updated By
Eugenio Refini

Citation
Eugenio Refini, ‘La Metaura’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
  <https://vari.warwick.ac.uk/items/show/4282> [accessed 20 April 2024]