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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; old binding in parchment; title on spine: 'Ethica di Gabriel Cesano lib. 4 m.s.'; ff. [1], 152, [1]; mm. 260_200. The name of the dedicatee is explicitly mentioned in this ms. The text is the same which appears in ms. Vatican City, BAV,…

Paper; ff. 1 [blank], 240 (modern numeration; ff. 230-240 blank), 4 (blank). Title on spine: 'Cesano / Etica di / Aristot.'; mm. 154_214; beautiful copy by a calligraphic hand of late 16th c.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. 289; modern binding; measures variable: 1. ff. 2r-121r, mm. 340_243; 2. ff. 122r-289v, mm. 298_220. Whereas ms. Florence, BNC, Ginori Conti App. 3 is a beautiful copy of the text, ms. Ricc. 2431 is a sketchy version of the…

Parchment; ff. 330; mm. 270_190; illuminated initials with animals and vegetal decorations.

Paper; mm. 220_310; ff. II + 125 + III. Autogr.

Paper; ff. [II], 95, [III]. mm. 238_340; card binding. Ex libris “P.A. Guadagni”; "Ciaccheri" (f. 1r).

Paper; mm. 192_144; ff. [I], pp. 60, ff. [11 of which 2-11 blank], f. [1], pp. 15, [one double-folio between 14 e 15], f. [1], pp.22. Partly numbered; binding in parchment; old shefmark: 17.O.II.76.

Parchment; ff. [II], 87; mm. 323_230. Text in two columns; lines per column: 40. Layout: mm. 170_221. Illuminated initials (f. 1r vignette representing Aristotle and vegetal decorations); rubrics in red, signs of paragraphs in red and light blue.

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.

Paper, ff. 110, mm. 215_150. Dedication copy, beautifully written in a calligraphic hand.

Paper; ff. [3], 112, [7]; old binding in parchment; title on spine: 'Piccolomini / Morale'; mm. 248_180.

Paper; ff. [7: 1-3, 5-7 blank], p. 212 (167-212 blank), f. [1]; mm. 280_210. Beautiful copy (cf. Vatican City, BAV, Chig. E.V.172). Original binding in parchment. Title on cover: 'COMPENDIO DELLA FILOSOFIA MORALE E CIVILE / del Signor Francesco…

Paper; ff. [2] + 140; mm. 210_150. Binding in parchment.

Paper; ff. [7], 78, [2]; mm. 290_210. Original binding in parchment; title on spine: 'Institutione del principe regio del [Piccolomini]'.

Paper; ff. I, [3], 186, [3], I; mm. 206_145. The text appears as in the ms. Siena, BComunale, G.VII.36.

Paper; ff. [1], 191 [171-191 blank]; old binding in vellum; possibly autograph by Francesco Piccolomini (at any rate different from all the other extant copies which are clearly calligraphic ones realised by scribes).

Paper; pp. 248 + I f. [blank]; mm. 268_200; old binding in parchment; beautiful copy of the text (cf. Vatican mss.). The Compendio follows here the Institutione del principe as if they were the two parts of a same work, dedicated to the Grand Duke…

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

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

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.

Paper; ff. [IV], 94, [IV]; mm. 270_202. Later binding. The text is closer to the Vatican copy (Urb. Lat. 1391) than to the printed edition of 1627.

Paper; ff. [II], 623, [II]; mm. 200_260. Contemporary binding. The last page not numbered as a date: '16 ott. 1609'. An different title, L'Ethica di Fabio Albergati, though erased, is still readable on the spine of the book. The title Del sommo bene.…