Accession number:
MS M.809
Title:
Metaphysicae, book 14
Created:
Italy, between 1300 and 1350.
Binding:
Contemporary deerskin in wooden boards, originally sewn on old leather bands.
Credit:
Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., 1940.
Description:
49 leaves (2 columns, 38 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 180 mm
Provenance:
Guiseppe Martini (sale catalogue 20, Lugano, 1932, no. 33); William G. Kelso, Jr., Brooklyn, New York; Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., New York; purchased from Harper in 1940.
Notes:
Ms. philosophy; written and decorated in Italy in the first half of the 14th century.
One of ten known copies of the old recension of this text, translated directly from the Greek, rather than the Arabic--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: penwork ornament.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Greek
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