Folio; [*]1, a7, b-c6, d5. ff. [25]. mm. 180×265. Roman type. Layout: 130×200, text in 2 columns. Initials of paragraphs in red or blue (ms. coloured). Modern binding.
The treatise on the soul by the dominican Jacopo Campora from Genova, written in Bruges in 1432 and dedicated to the Venetian merchant Giovanni Marcanova, who put Campora up on the occasion of his stay in London, had a wide circulation both in mss.…
This partial translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, book 1, from the Latin version by Daniele Barbaro might be attributed to Camillo II Capilupi, whose hand - according to Gasparrini 1939 - would be responsible for several texts included in ms. Rome,…
The censure on Alessandro Piccolomini's Annotationi nel libro della Poetica di Aristotele collect several remarks (mainly critical) on Piccolomini's interpretation of Aristotelian passages witnessing - together with other contemporary documents - the…
Paper; ff. VII, 249, [5]; mm. 145_220. Autograph by Annibal Caro. Beautiful copy with several corrections, marginal additions and glosses. The date (November 15th 1551) appears at f. 249r.
Annibal Caro's translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, completed - as the original autograph ms. now in the Ambrosiana (O 120 sup.) confirms - in 1551, was not printed until 1570. The original ms. shows quite a substantial revision of the text and would…