The printed edition is a collection of three different philosophical works: the book opens with Epictetus' Moral Philosophy, goes on with the pseudo-aristotelian treatise On Virtues and Vices and ends up with Plutarch's On Brotherly Love. Each…
Annibal Caro's translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, completed - as the original autograph ms. now in the Ambrosiana (O 120 sup.) confirms - in 1551, was not printed until 1570. The original ms. shows quite a substantial revision of the text and would…
Paper; ff. [I] + [7 n.n.] + 520 [i.e. 272 pp. + 338 ff.] + [I]; mm. 205_283. Autograph copy with corrections and additions. Title on spine: 'Trattato / dei Governi / di Aristotile / tradotto dal / Greco in Fior(enti)no / da Bernardo Segni'.
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
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.
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.
Paper; ff. VII, 249, [5]; mm. 145_220. Autograph by Annibal Caro. Beautiful copy with several corrections, marginal additions and glosses. The date (November 15th 1551) appears at f. 249r.
Paper; mm. 270_220; ff. [I], 73, [2 blank], [I]. Beautiful copy, calligraphic though cursive hand; some additions and corrections. According to the catalogue the ms. is autograph by Del Rosso.
Paper; ff. [II], 174, [I]; mm. 236_170. Cursive chancery hand. Copied by Luigi di Giovanfrancesco de Pazzi (February 2nd 1493). At f. 174v a note refers to the entrance of Charles VIII King of France into Florence in 1494.
Paper; ff. [I parchm.], [2], 214, [1], [I]; mm. 143_220. Old binding in vellum. The manuscript is copied in 1467 by Buonaccorso di Filippo Adimari (cf. ms. Florence, BNC, Pal. 710).