Name: Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1619
Title:: Collection of theological and historical treatises, including an English translation of Aristotle's Politics
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Notes in English, concerning the price of a hide of land, and the foundations of colleges in Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster. f. 2r: Definition of 'Abacus'. ff. 2r-2v: 'Twelfe steppes that a Christian may stride towards heaven, and being in the first may think him self a g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1572-c 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3269
Title:: Aristotle, Ethica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Ethica (Nichomachean Ethics), in the Latin translation by Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino), with a preface (ff. 1r-4r), incipit: 'Aristoteles ethicorum libros facere latinos', and dedicatory letter addressed to Pope Martin V (ff. 4r-4v), incipit: 'Non novum esse constat bea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3270
Title:: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni
Scope & Content:: A humanist copy of selected works by Aristotle, all translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni (b. 1370, d. 1444). Contents: ff. 3r-111r: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, in the Latin translation by Leonardo Bruni, preceded by two prefaces (ff. 3r-6v). ff. 111r-112v: Leonardo Bruni, Letter to Ugo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1410-1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3272
Title:: Logica vetera and Logica nova, Aristotle, De anima
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3273
Title:: İskendername - اسكندرنامه
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 text, 320 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3305
Title:: Aristotle, Ethica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Ethica (Nicomachean Ethics), in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino), with a preface (ff. 2r-5v), rubric (preface): 'Leonardi Aretini in Ethicam Aristotelis incipit prologus', incipit (preface): 'Aristotelis ethicorum libros facere latinos'; rubric (tex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1435-1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3379
Title:: Aristotle, Ethica
Scope & Content:: Contents: Aristotle, Ethica (Nicomachean Ethics) in the Latin translation by Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino), with a preface (ff. 1r-4v), incipit (preface): '[A]ristotelis ethicorum facere latinos', incipit (text): 'Omnis ars omnisque doctrina.' Decoration: Space left for initials...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1448
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3396
Title:: Aristotle, Ethica
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-118r: Aristotle, Ethica, in the Latin translation by Robert Grosseteste (Parisian recension?), rubric: 'Libri primi de quibusdam preambulis ad virtutem et de felicitate politica sunt capitula xxi. Capitulum primum ostendit quod sit bonum quod in huius sciencia principaliter intenditur', i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1470-c 1480
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3413
Title:: Aristotle, Ethica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Ethica (Nicomachean Ethics), in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino) (ff. 5r-109v), with a preface (ff. 1r-4v), and a table of contents (ff. 110r-123v); rubric (preface): 'Leonardus Aretinus civis florentinus', incipit (preface): 'Aristotelis ethicorum ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3843
Title:: Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains: 1. Calendar and astrological tables (ff. 1r-7v); 2. Text relating to bloodletting (ff. 8v-11r); 3. Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the mon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 129 folios.

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