Manuscript of the translation by Jacobus Venetus of the 'Analytica Posteriora' by Aristotle, with contemporary and later gloss.

File

Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.6

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Scope and Contents

Subscription, folio 36 verso: 'Explicit liber posteriorum simul cum tota nova logica'.

Calligraphic initials in red and blue with elaborate scrollwork. Sentence and paragraph marks in red or blue. Marginal ink drawings of geometrical shapes (folios 19 verso, 20 recto), a dog (folio 28 verso) and a besieged castle (folio 29 recto).

On the inside top cover is written '14/[ ] a/-'; on folio i verso in an 18th-century hand 'Ce petit traité sur aristote Manuscrit et [sic] de la fin du 14e siecle ou au commencent [sic] du 15e seicle [sic]': on folio 36 verso are scribblings of no interest.

Dates

Creation: 14th century.

Extent

1 Volumes (i (paper) + 36 + i (paper) folio.)

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Arrangement

Collation; 1-2¹⁰, 3¹², 4⁴. Catchwords in the lower right-hand margin parallel to the text. Pricking with a triangular awl in the outer margins, from last verso to first recto of the gathering. Ruling in ink. 1 column. 28 lines. Ruled area for text 115 x 60 millimetres (the gloss-area extends 37 millimetres to the left, 30 millimetres to the right, and 35 millimetres below). Secundo folio: `erunt [??]a ad id`.