Bod-Inc: A-396
Aristoteles
Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Johannes Argyropoulos).
Analysis of Content
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 . . .’
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.
p5r [Note on the work and on the contribution by Aegidius Delphus.]
p5v Aegidius Delphus: Incipit: ‘Sepe mihi stupidam tenet admiratio mentem | Cur pauci viuant conditione pari'. 20 elegiac distichs.
p6v ‘Tabula.’
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris]: Georg Wolf, for Enguilbert De Marnef, 16 Apr. 1493. 4°.
Remarks: The British Library copy has device of De Marnef on a1r. Copies described by H and GW are without the device.
Collation
Collation: a–o8 p10.
References
ISTC: ia00982500
GW: GW 2364;
Hain: H *1757;
Goff: Goff, Supplement, A‑982a;
BMC: BMC VIII 146;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑688; Oates 3091; Rhodes 147; Sack, Freiburg, 270; Sheppard 6363.
LCN: 14340278
Copies
Copy number: A-396(1)
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.
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