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4°. A-K4. ff. xxxvi. Dedication and text roman. mm. 150×210.

As the author affirms in the dedication letter to cardinal Flavio Orsini, the Discorso aims at demonstrating the immortality of the soul through a critical consideration of Aristotle's statements on the topic as well as his later readers and…

8°. a6, A-V8, X2. ff. 163. Dedication roman, preface and chapter titles italics, text roman. mm. 100×152.

4°; [A]2, B-Q4; ff. [2], 59, [1]. Epistle in Rome, text in Italics.

Stefano Conventi's Discorsi peripatetici et platonici is an interesting example of a reworking of a previous text written and published in Latin by the same author, De ascensu mentis in deum, ex Platonica et Peripatetica doctrina libri sex (Venice:…

The Breve ragionamento follows in the ms. Florence, BNC, Magl.XII.12 a Latin work by the same author on a similar subject (Epilogus doctrinam Aristotelis de anima quam brevissime complectens, ff. 4r-25v), dedicated - as the Italian one - to the duke…

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).

The work is a thorough discussion of Aristotle's theory of dreams mainly based on the three Parva Naturalia which deal with the topic (On Sleep, On Dreams, On Divination in Sleep) as well as on Aristotle's On the Soul. As stated by the author of the…

4°. *-**4, ***2, A-Z4, AA-EE4. ff. 122: [10], p. 201, [11]. Type: text in roman; titles in italics. 220x153 mm.

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.

Paper, ff. [ii], 188 (blank 59-60, 185-188) , [i], [i]; mm. 218_145. Layout mm. 80_140; 26 lines. Modern binding in cardboard (19th c.). Written by a single hand. The treatise on the immortality of the soul by Campora is followed by Saint Antonino…

Parchment, ff. [v], 83, [v]. mm. 220_145. Original binding in wood and vellum. Illuminated initials at ff. 1r, 55v, 55v. Campora's treatise - here dedicated to Bernardo Giustiniani instead of Giovanni Marcanova, as it is the case in other witnesses…

Paper; misc.; ff. 80. Old binding (possibly original) in wood and vellum. The Amherst copy is very close in format and layout to the printed edition of 1472. The text is followed by an anonymous Latin treatise De defferentia inter spiritum et animam…

Paper; ff. [III], 65, [III]. mm. 141_104. Modern binding. There is no index of chapters; titles of chapters within the text and names of the interlocutors of the dialogue in red.

Parchment; mm. 177_120; ff. [1], 50 [50 blank], [8]; 23 lines; layout mm. 110x75. Original binding in wood and vellum.

Parchment; ff. I, 66, I; mm. 90_130. In this ms., references to the author (Jacopo Campora) are omitted: the dialogue's interlocutors are Philide and Cariophilo; the dedication in the prologue is thus to Philide. There is no table of chapters; the…