—CAVALCANTI Giovanni—Trattato politico-morale
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 text, apparently incomplete and with sections misplaced.
CAVALCANTI Giovanni
Eugenio Refini
133
—CESANO Gabriele—Etica secondo la dottrina di Aristotile
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.
CESANO Gabriele
134
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, Boncompagni K 8. This is a beautiful copy, probably written in the mid-16th c.
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 cf. Briquet 12209 (a. 1579) and 12211-2 (a. 1593-99, 1599).
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 on Gabriele Cesano and his relationship with Claudio Tolomei (f. 317r).
1617—CORNEO Tito —La historia degli animali d'Aristotele
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.
CORNEO Tito
135
—DEL ROSSO Paolo—Trattato dell'anima d'Aristotile
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.
DEL ROSSO Paolo
136
Paper; ff. [2], 64, [5]. mm. 256_196. Original binding in parchment; dedication copy; title on spine 'RAFF. / GVALT. / dell'a_a / m.s.'.
GUALTEROTTI Raffaello
1591—GUALTEROTTI Raffaello—Dell'anima
137
1581—LIBRI Giulio—Comento sopra la Poetica di Aristotile
Paper; ff. [3], [1], 323, [1]; mm. 210_275. Illegible because of a thin protective film stuck on the folios.
LIBRI Giulio
138
1419—MANNELLI Luca O.P.—Compendio della filosofia morale
Paper; ff. [I], 96, [I]; mm. 289_203; layout: mm. 108_188; 31 lines. Illuminated initials; paragraph marks in red; modern binding. At f. 93v: 'Schrito el dicto libro per me Bernardo Bragadini da Vinegia nelle Stinche di Firenze a dì XXVIII settembrio 1419'.
MANNELLI Luca O.P.
139
—MANNELLI Luca O.P.—Compendio della filosofia morale
Parchm.; ff. 76; mm. 166_237. Titles and rubrics in red. Modern binding. The text is divided into 99 chapters.
14th-15th c.—MANNELLI Luca O.P.—Compendio della filosofia morale
Paper; miscellaneous by a single chancery hand; ff. [1], 51, [1]; mm. 290_220.
1444—MANNELLI Luca O.P.—Compendio della filosofia morale
Paper; ff. [II], 85, [II]; mm. 212_281; layout: mm. 122_180; 26/28 lines. Red rubric and initials of paragraphs in gold.
1425—MANNELLI Luca O.P.—Compendio della filosofia morale
Paper; misc.; ff. 105; layout: mm. 110_190; 28 lines (variable). The Compendio follows here Taddeo Alderotti's compendium of the Ethics. The text in the ms. is not complete: the last section ('Qui si tratta de una virtù contraria alla magnanimità', inc. at 104r: 'Alla magniminità e contrario il vitio della pusilanimità cioe avere lanimo piccolo et Aristotile dicie nel quarto libro del Eticha chel pusilanimo non e reo') corresponds to ms. Paris, BNF, Ital. 2235, c. 61v, 'settimo libro, rubrica octava dove si tracta delle contrarietà de la magnanimità'.
Discorso: non qual si voglia moto più ne riscalda che la quiete
—MARTELLI Ugolino—Discorso: non qual si voglia moto più ne riscalda che la quiete
Paper; misc.; mm. 143_220; ff. [...]. Faulty numbers of pages. Written by the same cursive but very legible hand.
MARTELLI Ugolino
140
1470s—MORANDI Benedetto—De le morali virtute
Paper; ff. [II], 2 (parchm.), 71 (blank 64-71) + [II]; mm. 210_300; layout: mm. 145_230; 37/38 lines; modern binding. Watermark: cf. Piccard, X, n°1107 – Ravenna, a. 1472). Owner's note at f. 71v: 'Iste liber est mei Gregorii marie de Barianis [de Planntia]'.
MORANDI Benedetto
141
1493—NUTI Bernardo di Ser Francesco—Etica d'Aristotile tradotta
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.
NUTI Bernardo di Ser Francesco
142
1467—NUTI Bernardo di Ser Francesco—Etica d'Aristotile tradotta
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).
—NUTI Bernardo di Ser Francesco—Etica d'Aristotile tradotta
Paper; ff. [III], 151, 9 (blank), [II]; mm. 200_280; binding in vellum.
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); Augustine, Sermoni, volg. (p. 339bis-409).
1464—NUTI Bernardo di Ser Francesco—Etica d'Aristotile tradotta
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 conoscienti suoi, sicome huom che piglia sommo piaciere di simil cose. Cominciato et fornito del mese di diciembre in anno Mcccclxiiii'. On the last page, by a different hand: 'Questo libro intitolato Etyca di Aristotile è di Bernardo di Paolino Adimari el quale gli donò Buonacorso d Filippo Adimari scrivendo qui in casa nostra confortando detto Bernardo a studiarlo bene et imparare virtù in giovintù'.
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.
1450 c.—NUTI Bernardo di Ser Francesco—Etica d'Aristotile tradotta
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 Florence by a scribe who seems to have specialized in copying vernacular texts; the rubrication is by a different scribe identifiable as "Sinibaldus C." who worked for Vespasiano da Bisticci; the codex was decorated by Gioacchino de' Gigantibus, probably in Florence before 1453 when he moved to Rome' [A. De la Mare].
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.
—PALTRONI Francesco—Paraphrase di Agostino Nifo
PALTRONI Francesco
116