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Paper; ff. 212 not numbered; mm. 147_210; f. [1]r: Ranuzzi family's coat of arms; f. [2]r: framed title-page. Binding in vellum, maybe original. Title on spine: 'Etica / del / Cesano'. Old shelfmark: 274. Late 16th or early 17th c. copy; watermark…

Paper; ff. [I modern], 317, [I modern]; mm. 215_155. Modern binding. Text copied by a single hand, earlier than the other extant copies (Vatican City and Austin). With some corrections. Maybe autograph. A different hand adds some biographical details…

Cesano's Ethics, which is a sort of paraphrase of Aristotle's Ethics, is dedicated to cardinal Ippolito II Este of Ferrara (cf. Fabroni 1792: 383-403); the work covers books I-IV. Since the author, who died in 1568, worked for Ippolito as of 1540,…

Part of the translator's foreword (but no mention of the dedicatee), as well as the life of Aristotle appear as an introduction to Taddeo Alderotti's compendium of the Ethics in the late 15th c. manuscript Venice, BNM, It. II.134, ff. 1r-2v.

Antonio Colombella, member of the Augustinian order, dedicates this translation of the Nicomachean Ethics - apparently based on the Latin text by Robert Grosseteste - to the young nobleman and merchant Pancrazio Giustiniani. The work includes an…

4°. A-O4, a-h4. ff. 56, [32]. mm. 146×200. Italics

4°. *4, A-Z4, AA-ZZ4, AAA-XXX4; ff. [8], p. 504, ff. [12]. mm.

8°. a-z8, AA-XX8, YY2. ff. [ii], 520, [20]. mm. 105×155.

Paper, ff. [i], 203 [blank 195-203]; mm. 203_146. Original binding in parchment, damaged spine. Watermark at ff. 195-196, 199-200 cf. Briquet 9970. The title is written on an old and damaged label on the spine: 'Galeazzo Florimonte / da Sessa /…

Paper; ff. [II], 122, [V]; original binding in cardboard. Title on spine: 'Galeazzo / Florimonte / Etica d' / Aristot'. Old inventory number on spine: '26'. The name of Benedetto Varchi, owner of the ms., appears not only on the title-page, but also…

4°. A4, a4, B-T4. ff. 80: [8 ff.], 151 pp., [1 p.]. Text in italics. 135×190 mm.

8°. a8 A-N8 O4. ff. 116: [8], 107, [1]. Text in italics; dedication and printed marginalia in roman.

4°. ff. [4-1], 177, [1].

Galeazzo Florimonte's Ragionamenti sopra l'Etica di Aristotele were first published in 1554 by Girolamo Ruscelli: this incomplete edition of the work (book 2-3 were missing) was republished in 1562. A complete edition of the Ragionamenti, which is…

Paper; misc., comp. (4 units); ff. [II], 53. Relevant unit (17r-30v): mm. 214_165. In this ms. the commentary surrounds the text, whereas in the two other mss. it follows the text.

Parchment; miscellaneous; ff. [I], 4 [2-4 blank], 1-81, [5 blank]; mm. 145_220; written by the same hand. Layout's measures variable: 1. mm. 82_150, 27 lines; 2. mm. 80_145, 26 lines; 3. mm. 82_155, 28 lines. Title on spine: 'tratt

Parchment, ff. [v], 83, [v]. mm. 220_145. Original binding in wood and vellum. Illuminated initials at ff. 1r, 55v, 55v.