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ff. 36; A-L; Roman type.

8°; ff. 38; Roman type.

The treatise on the soul by the dominican Jacopo Campora from Genova, written in Bruges in 1432 and dedicated to the Venetian merchant Giovanni Marcanova, who put Campora up on the occasion of his stay in London, had a wide circulation both in mss.…

4°; ff. [8], 176 [i.e. 178], [2]; †4, +4, A-N4,

Paper; misc.; ff. 89; mm. 278_207; the first 21 folios are missing; dated by the scribe at f. 89r: 'Finito el libro Rosario di philosophi. 1473 die 21 mensis Mai'.

The pseudo-Aristotelian treatise De perfecto magisterio deals with alchemic issues. The original text is accessible in J.-J. Manget, Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa (Geneva: 1702), I, 641A.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. III, 79, II; mm. 190_270. Old binding in parchment. Watermark: cf. Briquet 13648 (a. 1570). General title at f. IIr: 'Trattati diversi'; the ms. has been part of the Ambrosiana collection since 1603 (Olgiati). One of the…

The anonymous Lezione del coito deals with the notion of coitus drawing not only from Aristotle, but from Galen and Hippocrates as well. The author refers to Aristotelian works such as On generation of animals, On the soul, Problems. The text is…

Paper; ff. [2], 64, [5]. mm. 256_196. Original binding in parchment; dedication copy; title on spine 'RAFF. / GVALT. / dell'a_a / m.s.'.

In the preface to Franceco Maria II della Rovere, duke of Urbino, the author explains that his work on the soul is based both on Aristotle and Galen.

Relevant unit: paper; ff. 154-169 + [3] blank. mm. 222_310. Autogr.

Ercole Bottrigari's translation of Aristotle's On Things Heard, dated 1606, is followed by the translation of an other Aristotelian short treatise (On Breath). The two works are part of the same translation project and witness the translator's…