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.…
Parchment; miscellaneous; ff. [I], 4 [2-4 blank], 1-81, [5 blank]; mm. 145_220; written by the same hand. In this ms. the dialogue De immortalitate anime is followed by Lazzaro Gallineta's translation of the treatise On Virtues and Vices (as it…
Paper, misc., comp.; ff. [i], 263, [i]. mm. 205_150. Later binding in parchment. Layout of the section concerned (1r-48v) mm. 95_150, 27 lines. The treatise is followed by Francesco Petrarca's canzone Vergine bella che di sol vestita (RVF, 366)…
Paper; ff. I, 47, I; 15th c. (1471); rubrics in red; decorated initial at f. 1r; 24 lines. Original binding in wood and vellum (with decorations). Names of cited authors in red on the margins.
Parchment; ff. [vi] paper, [1], 62, [iv] paper. Modern binding; title on the spine: “Iac. Camphora. / De / Immortalitate animae”. mm. 160_215; measures of folios, cut and rebound: mm. 135_200; layout: mm. 80_145. Lines per page: 25. Text copied in…
Folio; [*]1, a7, b-c6, d5. ff. [25]. mm. 180×265. Roman type. Layout: 130×200, text in 2 columns. Initials of paragraphs in red or blue (ms. coloured). Modern binding.
Paper; miscellaneous by a single scribe; mm. 210_300; 2 columns; red rubrics, initials in red or blue, some of them illuminated; ff. [I] + 4 (mm. 150_210) + [8] + 225 + [4] + [I]. Modern binding. At f. 1r not numb. title by a modern hand: 'Libro…
Paper; ff. 56; mm. 145_197. Layout: 86_125. Lines per page: 22. Original binding in wood and vellum with stamped decorations. Beautiful humanistic script, with marginal red rubrics. Some faults of binding towards the end (correct sequence of folios:…
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.