Title: 'De initio creature', incipit: 'Her maeg findan se ðe sécan wile. hu micel þaes gerageteles is..' The last section of the text gives the date 1032: ‘ðonne is nu fram frymþe ealle aúrnen. Syx þusend wintra. 7 an hund wintra. 7 etwa 7 þrytyg wintra. To ðaem eastrun. þe bið .IIII. non. Apr....
Logica vetera and Logica nova, Aristotle, De anima
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The manuscript is composed of two originally independent volumes: ff. 1r-207v: Logica vetara and Logica nova made of several booklets, written by several scibes at the beginning of the 14th century, and provided with rubricated titles by one contemporary hand. ff. 208r-227v: Aristotle, De ani...
ff. 1r-70r: Logica vetus, with marginal commentary in two or three columns, comprising: ff. 1r-10v: Porphyrius, Isagoge or introduction to the logical categories of Aristotle, in the Latin translation of Boethius, rubric: 'Incipit ysagoge Porphirij in kathegorias Aristotelis', incipit: 'Cum sit...
Aristotle, De anima, incipit: 'Bonorum honorabilium noticia opinantes.' Decoration: 2 large puzzle initial in red and blue with red in-fill, at the beginning of books (ff. 208r, 213v). Smaller initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue.
This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
A collection of historical and poetic works by Italian humanists. Contents: f. 1r: Leonardo Bruni Aretino (b. 1370, d. 1444), Letter to Alfonso of Aragon dated 1442 in Florence, printed in Leonardo Bruni, Epistolarum libri VIII, ed. by Lorenzo Mehus (Florence, 1741), pp. 165-66. ff. 1r-1v: Le...
The fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. Ali Çelebi was a native of Edirne and was commonly known as Vasi' Alisi because he had started his career as assistant, or müeyyid, to the professor Mevlana Abdulvasi'. Abd...
Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem
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Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'. ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del...