Bod-Inc: A-397
Aristoteles
Ethica Nicomachea (trans. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Preface to Ethica Nicomachea.] Bruni, Schriften, 76-81.
[a3v] Aristoteles: Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ See A‑394.
[i10r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Letter addressed to Martinus V, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 75-6.
[k1r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Proemium in libros Politicorum.] Bruni, Schriften, 73-4.
[k1v] [Aristoteles: Politica. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam videmus omnem ciuitatem esse societatem quandam . . .’
[v8r] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Letter addressed to Cosimo de' Medici.] Bruni, Schriften, 120-1.
[v8v] [Aristoteles pseudo-: Oeconomica. Partly translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[R]es familiaris et r[es] p[ublica] inter se differunt non solum quantum domus et ciuitas . . .’ See A‑388.
[x6v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Letter addressed to Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.] Bruni, Schriften, 70-3.
[x7v] [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Letter addressed to the ‘signori' of Siena.] Bruni, Schriften, 143. Francesco Paolo Luiso, Studi su l'epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, Studi storici, 122-4 (Rome, 1980), 140-1. Text dated Florence, 24 Nov. 1438.
[x8r] [`Signori' of Siena: Letter addressed to Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘[S]pectabilis ac clarissime vir, accepimus summo cum gaudio vestrum hoc munus Politicorum, quod Bertus noster, vester vt clare fatetur a diu filius ac discipulus nobis vestro nomine obtulit . . .’ Letter dated Siena, 28 Dec. 1438. See Luiso, Studi su l'epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, 141 n. 16, and 183 no. 41.
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, before 10 Apr. 1469]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a b10 c d8 e–g10 h12 i–n10 o8 p6 q–t10 v x8].
References
ISTC: ia00983000
GW: GW 2367;
Hain: H *1762;
Goff: Goff A‑983;
BMC: BMC I 53;
Proctor: Pr 224;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑685; CIBN A‑512; Hillard 178; Oates 86-7; Rhodes 148; Sack, Freiburg, 269; Schorbach, Mentelin, 13; Sheppard 136-8.
LCN: 14338619
Copies
Copy number: A-397(1)
Collation as GW, not as BMC. Variants on [e1r]: ‘[D]E iuſticia et iniuſticia conſiderandum eſt [et] | c'ca quas res exiſtāt [et] qual' mediocritas | . . .’
Binding: Gold-tooled blue morocco by Bozérian le Jeune.
Size: 293 × 215 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 282 × 195 mm.
Initials are supplied in red and occasionally in blue; red capital strokes.
Provenance: Purchased for £12. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 3.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.18.
Copy number: A-397(2)
Collation as GW, not as BMC. Variants on [e1r]: ‘[D]E iuſticia et iniuſticia conſiderandum eſt et | circa quas res exiſtāt [et] qualis medioc'tas ſit | . . .’
Binding: Contemporary French blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; four clasps lost; rebacked. On both covers fillets form a triple frame; in the inner rectangle strapwork in lozenge patterns, in the inner frame strapwork, in the outer a roll.
Size: 305 × 215 × 65 mm.
Size of leaf: 290 × 198 mm.
Initials are supplied in red, occasionally in blue.
Provenance: Purchased for £3. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1854), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.18.
Copy number: A-397(3)
Wanting the blank leaves [d8] and [m10].
Collation as GW, not as BMC. Variants on [e1r]: ‘[D]E iuſticia et iniuſticia conſiderandum eſt et | c'ca quas res exiſtāt [et] qualis medioc'tas ſit | . . .’
Binding: Nineteenth-century half blind-tooled calf.
Size: 270 × 200 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 260 × 180 mm.
On [a1r] a German ten-line initial is supplied in blue with white highlighting on gold ground, within a segmented frame of red and pale green, and with a foliate border extending into the inner margin in red and pale green, including some gold dotting. Principal initials are supplied mainly in blue or green with some pen flourishing and floral extensions; other initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes.
Provenance: Henry William Chandler (1828-1889); given by Chandler to Bywater in 1880. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 396. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. B 2.9.
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