A chronicle relating to the year 1291 and possibly referring to the death of Jeanne of Chatillon, Countess of Blois and Chartres; incipit: 'En lan de grace mil cc quatre vins et onze le rendi devant la commision saint pol'. Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Thomas Hobbes, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques
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Thomas Hobbes's unpublished tract on optics, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques, dedicated to William Cavendish, marquis of Newcastle. It contains a title page (f. 1r), the dedication to Cavendish (ff. 2r-4r), a list of contents (ff. 5r-5v), and Hobbes's tract on optics in two parts (ff. ...
Contains the Fabrica Horologa Universal, a work on dialling, by Andres de Vega, a confessor of Observant Franciscans in the province of Granada, which he dedicated to Luis de Guzmán, advisor to the Minister Provincial of the Franciscans of the province of Granada. The work on the manuscript prob...
The manuscript includes Theophrastus, De historia plantarum translated by Theodore Gaza of Thessaloniki, with the preface dedicated to Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455) for whom Theodore translated the Greek text into Latin (ff. 2r-4v). Decoration: Large initials in red with red pen-flourishing. Large...
Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia
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The manuscript includes Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia dedicated to Augustino Maffei (b. 1431, d. 1496), Apostolic scriptor and curial official, humanist collector of books and antiquities by the author Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Italian humanist (b. 1421,...
The manuscript includes Aristotle, Libri Naturales (corpus vetustius), with glosses: Physica (ff. 4r-65v); De coelo et mundo (ff. 65v-121r); De generatione (ff. 121v-140v); Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 140v-173r); De anima (ff. 173r-197r); De memoria et reminiscenti...
Aristotle's Physica with marginal gloses in two or three columns. Decoration: 9 historiated initials in gold and colours at the beginning of books. f. 4r (book I: preface): initial Q(uoniam) of burning of books before a friar and a seated king. Below, a small miniature of a sleeping man and a...
Aristotle, De coelo et mundo in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: 3 historiated initials in colours and gold at the beginning of books: f. 65v (book I): initial 'S'(umma) of Christ holding concentric spheres of the universe. A small miniature below of three joined heads ...
Aristotle, De generatione. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'G'(eneratione) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text of a couple in bed with children alongside (f. 140v).
Aristotle, Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 170r-173r). Decoration: 3 historiated initials in colours and gold at the beginning of major text divisions: f. 140v: initial 'P'(ost) of a scholar pointing at the sky with falling rain and a head spewing fire from clouds. f. 1...
