Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 398: Aristotle, Politics (transl. by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo))

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Summary
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.
Contents
Politics (transl. by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo))

Description

Alternative title Aristotelis Politica
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 230
Date created [ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout 23 lines to a page
Height (mm) 208
Width (mm) 138
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1(6) 2(8)-29(8).
Writing in a good clear hand with something of the quality of lettre bâtarde
Foliation ff. a + i + 1-238 + b-c
Additions f. ir pasted over. On f. iv (xv) Liber Politicorum de Novo translatus and a Parkerian note.
2 fo. opus recipiendum

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qd686wv7820/MS_398.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bd162wc4138/398.pdf
Contains
Title
Aristotle, Politics (transl. by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)). 1r-237v
Author
Aristotle
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
(60v) Liber III
(97r) Liber IV
(129v) Liber V
(171r) Liber VI
(187r) Liber VII
(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
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
TJames 289
Stanley T. 10
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/nx994mm8295
Location MS 398
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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