tia00985000

Text-inc Id:

tia00985000

Bod-inc Id:

A-399

Headings:

Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).

Analysis of content:

1. [1a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Letter addressed to Martinus V, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 75-6.
2. [1a1v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Preface to Ethica Nicomachea.] Bruni, Schriften, 76-81.
3. [1a4v] [Aristoteles: Ethica Nicomachea. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere uidetur . . .’ See A‑394.
4. [2a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Letter addressed to Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 70-3.
5. [2a2v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Proemium in libros Politicorum.] Bruni, Schriften, 73-4.
6. [2a3v] [Aristoteles: Politica. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam videmus omnem ciuitatem esse societatem quandam . . .’
7. [3a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Letter for the Oeconomica, addressed to Cosimo de' Medici.] Bruni, Schriften, 120-1.
8. [3a1v] [Aristoteles pseudo-: Oeconomica. Partly translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[R]es familiaris et res pu[blica] inter se differunt non solum quantum domus et ciuitas . . .’ See A‑388.

Imprint:

[Valencia: Lambert Palmart, not after 1474]. Folio. Vindel assigns to [Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba]. See also L. Witten, ‘The Earliest Book Printed in Spain', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (1959), 91-113, at 102.

Collation:

[a b¹⁰ c⁸ d e¹⁰ f⁸ g¹⁰ h–k⁸ l¹⁰ m n⁸]; ²[a¹⁰ b c⁸ d¹⁰ e⁸ f¹⁰ g–l⁸ m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹⁰ p⁸ q⁶] (not as GW); ³[a⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00985000 GW 2370; R 401; Goff A‑985; BMC X 14; Haebler Bibliografía ibérica I and II 33; Sheppard 7280-1; Vindel, Arte, III 9: 4. LCN: 14340446

Copies:

1. A-399(1) First copy Wanting¹ [a1] and the blank leaf² [q6]. Leaf² [a1] was at one time bound in as¹ [a1] with the addition of a handwritten title ‘Ethica de Aristotiles.' For this copy see Hispanic MSS and Books, 6 no. 15. Binding: Twentieth-century green morocco; gold-tooled turn-ins and edges of boards; edges gilt. Old parchment label now mounted on an endleaf. Size: 302 × 220 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 290 × 208 mm. Pencil notes by George Dunn. On² [a1r] a four-line initial is supplied in gold on blue ground, within an ink frame. A small initial ‘E' is supplied in a similar style in the manuscript heading. Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912), 1900; printed label; sale, part 3 (22 Nov. 1917), lot 1817. Purchased for £67. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. S1.1.
2. A-399(2) Second copy Wanting gatherings¹ [a]–¹ [n]. Binding: Nineteenth-century brown cloth. Size: 297 × 205 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 288 × 194 mm. Running headings with the book-numbers in the Politica. Occasional marginal notes; some nineteenth-century foliation numbers. Provenance: Inserted letter from R. Proctor, dated 2 Oct. 1902. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 428. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. C 1.1.