Alanus de Insulis (attributed), Commentary on Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium
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Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Alanus de Insulis (attributed), Commentary on Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium. f. 1r: Notarial inscription. f. 68v: Added inscription regarding the purchase of the manuscript written by Sozomeno (b. 1387 at Pistoia, d. 1458), who studied at the University of Pad...
This manuscript contains a copy of Academica, an epistemological work by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Cicero, Academica priora; ff. 7r-34v: Cicero, Academica posteriora. Decoration: Inhabited initials in colours and go...
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale Puerorum, with gloss commentary
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Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Gloss to the Doctrinale Puerorum. f. 2v: Short tracts, including a list of the Nine Orders of Angels; a poem for calculating the calends on each month, beginning: 'Sex Maius nonas, October, Julius, et Mars / Quattuor at reliqui: tenet ydus quilibet octo'; and Colucius Sa...
Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione
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Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Marginal notes on Victorinus; added in the 15th century. f. i verso: Title inscription in pencil: 'Fabii Victorini Commentari in M. T. Ciceronis Rhetor[…]s'...
Contains several works of Aristotle: Physica (ff. 3r-55v); De somno et vigilia (ff. 56r-64v); De vita et morte (ff. 64v-68v); Liber methaurorum, imperfect (ff. 69r-107v); De caelo et mundo (ff. 107v-142v); De somno et vigilia (ff. 142v-149r); De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 149r-151v); ...