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  • Collection: Manuscript copies

Paper, ff. [ii], 46, [2], [iii]; mm. 281_210. Binding in cardboard, spine in leather with gold decorations. Autograph manuscript by Jacopo Corbinelli, and not by the author himself, as stated by a later hand on a smaller sheet of paper inserted…

Paper; ff. [3 blank], [3], 374, [2 blank]; mm. 261_190. Beautiful dedication copy; the layout follows the typical mise en page of printed books.

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.

Paper; ff. [I modern], 317, [I modern]; mm. 215_155. Modern binding. Text copied by a single hand, earlier than the other extant copies (Vatican City and Austin). With some corrections. Maybe autograph. A different hand adds some biographical details…

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…

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. 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; misc., comp.; ff. 289; modern binding; measures variable: 1. ff. 2r-121r, mm. 340_243; 2. ff. 122r-289v, mm. 298_220. Whereas ms. Florence, BNC, Ginori Conti App. 3 is a beautiful copy of the text, ms. Ricc. 2431 is a sketchy version of the…

Parchment; ff. 330; mm. 270_190; illuminated initials with animals and vegetal decorations.

Paper; miscellaneous; mm. 130_190; ff. 2, [4], 574, [4], 2. The manuscript contains extracts from several works, including Caro's Rettorica.

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; misc., comp.; ff. [II], 684, [II].Measures variable. Relevant unit: mm. 275_200.

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; 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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…
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