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8°; e7, A-Z8, Aa-Cc4; ff. [7], pp. 403, [1], ff. 4; mm. 105×158. Dedication and text in italics, preamble in roman.

8°. *4, A-I8, K4. ff. [4], pp. 148, ff. [II]. Preface to the readers italics, text roman. mm. 105×158.

8°. a8, A-Z8, Aa-Dd8, Ee4. ff. [8], pp. 424, ff. [8]. Dedication and text roman, preface to book 1-3 and preface to book 4 italics. mm. 104×160.

8°. *8, A-L8; ff. [8], pp. 166, ff. [5]. Roman. mm. 105×158.

8°. A-G8; pp. 104, ff. [4] (i.e. ff. [56]). Text roman, quotations italics. mm. 95×150.

Paper; ff. I, II, 110, [4], I; mm. 150_215. Possibly autograph by Francesco De Vieri. Rough copy with corrections and erasures.

Paper; ff. I, 26, II; mm. 168_230. Beautiful copy. Same hand of Magl. XII.12 (possibly autograph).

Parchment; ff. I, 37, I; mm. 165_230. Layout: mm. 102_155. Lines: 24 per page. Beautiful dedicatory copy. Initials of paragraphs and names of dedicatees in red. Binding decorated with Medici coat of arms.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. I, [2], 253, I.

Paper; ff. I, [6], 87, [6], II; mm. 140_200. Beautiful copy. Some of the initials letters are decorated in gold (ff. 1r, 4r, 32r).

Paper; ff. 4, 2, 57, 5; mm. 218_164; autograph by Francesco de Vieri (cf. mss. Magl. XII.12, XXI.29). Beautiful dedicatory copy.

Fulvio Malatesta's translation of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, book 1, is dedicated to the Duke of Urbino, Guidobaldo II, and witnesses the importance of Urbino as a centre for the vernacular diffusion of Aristotelian works (cf. the later…

Paper;ff. [3], pp. 171, f. 1; mm. 230_165. Old binding in parchment; title on spine: 'Posteriori d'Arist. tradotti da Fulv. Viani de Malatesti'. Beautiful dedicatory copy, follows the layout of contemporary printed editions.

4°. a4, A-C4. ff. 16: [4], 11, [1]. Dedication in roman; text and other paratextual elements in italics. 150×123 mm.

The anonymous vernacular translation of Guarino Verone's Life of Aristotle is part of a wider collection of biographies (ms. Vatican City, BAV, Chig. M.VII.157) incl. some of Plutarch's Lifes as well as the biographies of Evagoras by Isochrates and…

Paper; misc. by a single hand; ff. I, 96, I; mm. 271_195.

Vittorio Venturelli's translation of (and commentary on) Aristotle's Parva Naturalia follows the same author's version of Aristotle's Meteorology. The two works are in fact part of the same project addressed to the duke of Urbino Francesco Maria II…

Vittorio Venturelli translated and commented on Aristotle's Meteorology for the duke of Urbino Francesco Maria II Della Rovere. The work opens with a dedicatory epistle followed by a complete accessus which has the function of a general introduction…

Paper; ff. [2], 361; mm. 260_200. Beautiful copy (cf. mss. Urb. Lat. 1335, 1338).