Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 398

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 398
    • CCCC MS 398
    • MS 398
    • Parker Library MS 398
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.) | Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a good clear hand with something of the quality of lettre bâtarde
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 230
  • Dimensions :
    • 138 x 208
  • Codicological details :
    • 23 lines to a page
    • ff. a + i + 1-238 + b-c
    • opus recipiendum
    • 1 flyleaf, 1(6) 2(8)-29(8).

Contents

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  • Résumé : The version of Aristotle's Politics in CCCC MS 398 is a new translation by the Italian humanist Leonardo Bruni (1369-1444) commissioned by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) in 1433/4. It has fine illuminated ornamental borders by an English artist, and may have been written by an English scribe copying the Italian manuscript of the translation sent to Humphrey from Italy.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Aristotle - author

    Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo) - author

    1r-237v - Aristotle, Politics (transl. by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo))

    rubric : (1r) Leonardi arretini Epistola ad ducem Gloucestrie sequitur hoc modo

    Note : (red and black)

    incipit : (1r) Libros aristotelis multis a me vigiliis multaque assiduitate et opera in latinum traductos

    explicit : (4r) tanquam ad littus reuertar ubi hec omnia diuinitus perscribuntur. vale fflorencie kalendis nouembribus

    rubric : (4v) Incipit Leonardi Arretini feliciter Prohemium

    incipit : (4v) Inter moralis discipline precepta quibus humana vita instituitur

    explicit : (6r) et quidem necessariarum ad vitam suscepturos. Amen

    rubric : (6r) ffinis proemii

    Note : (6v) blank

    rubric : (7r) Incipit liber Primus Politicorum

    incipit : (7r) Quoniam vidimus omnem ciuitatem esse societatem quandam

    Note : (26r) Liber II

    Note : (60v) Liber III

    Note : (97r) Liber IV

    Note : (129v) Liber V

    Note : (171r) Liber VI

    Note : (187r) Liber VII

    Note : (224r) Liber VIII

    explicit : (237v) quod he tres determinaciones sunt in doctrina faciende medium possibile ac decens

    rubric : (237v) ffinis

    Note : f. 238r-238v blank

    Note : Each book, and the preliminary Epistle and Proem, has a very good initial and sometimes a partial border in fine gold and colours, of English style

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Notes

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  • Additions: f. ir pasted over. On f. iv (xv) Liber Politicorum de Novo translatus and a Parkerian note.

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