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. [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).
Paper; misc.; p. 411; mm. 287_200. The translation of the Ethics is followed by: John Chrysostom, Libro da venire a compunzione, volg. (p. 260-304); Hugh of Saint Victor, Trattato della messa o specchio della santa chiesa, volg. (p. 306-338bis);…
Paper; ff. [3], 221, [3], [3]; mm. 215_146; cursive hand with red rubric and blue initials (the same hand in mss. Pal. 729; Magl. XXI.64). At f. 221r: 'Questo libro scrisse Bonacorso di Filippo Adimari da Firenze, ad istanza di sé et delli amici et…
Parchment; mm. 230_155; ff. II, 210; red rubrics and decorated initials; title of the work at f. IIv within a tond; at f. 1r beautiful frieze on three sides of the page; binding in parchment.
Parchment; ff. I (paper) + 180 + I (paper); mm. 260_180 (164_113); 27 lines. 'Text written in a well formed humanistic bookhand by a single scribe; the rubrics, in majuscules, by another scribe who used excessive punctuation. [...] Written in…
Paper; ff. I (parchm.) + 170 + 1 (parchm.) (blank 166-170); mm. 198_283; 20 lines. Humanistic hand. Frieze at f. 1r; subscription at the end: 'finis. Die .x. Sectembris.
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; 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. 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…