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tia00982500

Text-inc Id:
tia00982500
Bod-inc Id:
A-396
Headings:
Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Johannes Argyropoulos).
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r Argyropoulos, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Cosimo de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Argyropylus Bizantius clarissimo viro Cosmae Medici salutem. Si ea mihi seruanda sunt erga te, que iam olim institui . . .’
  2. a4r Aristoteles: Ethica Nicomachea. ‘De moribus ad Nicomachum.’ Translated by Johannes Argyropoulos for Cosimo de' Medici. With chapter summaries by Aegidius Delphus. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina atque actus itidem et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ See A‑388.
  3. p5r [Note on the work and on the contribution by Aegidius Delphus.]
  4. p5v Aegidius Delphus: Incipit: ‘Sepe mihi stupidam tenet admiratio mentem | Cur pauci viuant conditione pari'. 20 elegiac distichs. View entry in Person Index
  5. p6v ‘Tabula.’
Imprint:
[Paris]: Georg Wolf, for Enguilbert De Marnef, 16 Apr. 1493. 4°. The British Library copy has device of De Marnef on a1r. Copies described by H and GW are without the device.
Collation:
a–o8 p10.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00982500 GW 2364; H *1757; Goff, Supplement, A‑982a; BMC VIII 146; not in Pr; BSB‑Ink A‑688; Oates 3091; Rhodes 147; Sack, Freiburg, 270; Sheppard 6363. LCN: 14340278
Copies:
  1. A-396(1) Copy Device of De Marnef on a1r. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns. Size: 206 × 139 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 130 mm. In gathering a numerous early marginal and interlinear notes. In gatherings a–d, initials (with occasional pen flourishing) and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in ink. Provenance: Limay/Mantes, Celestines; on p9v: ‘Iste liber est celestinorum prope Meduntam sic signatus 382' in an early hand, on a1r sixteenth/seventeenth-century inscription of ownership. Henry Wilson (1797-1866); armorial book-plate, Howe, Book Plates, 32081; sale (1914), lot 84. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); armorial book-plate; Elenchus, no. 397b. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 1.33.