Royal MS 9 E I

ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics: a Latin version accompanied by the commentary of S. Thomas Aquinas. Colophon, 'Explicet liber ethicorum secundum nouam translacionem cum completa sentencia S. Thorne de Alquino super eundem'. This 'new' translation (not identical with the 'versio recens' of the Parma edition of S. Thomas, xxi, and not to be confounded with the Ethica noua of 12 D. XIV, art. 3, a term denoting not a new version but a version of newly discovered books) is the work of Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (d. 1444), and is printed, Florence, 1478, Paris, 1510, &c. Translation beg. 'Cum omnis ars et omnis doctrina, similiter autem'. The commentary of Thomas Aquinas was printed with other works at Venice, 1496 (cf. Parma ed. 1866, xxi). Prologue beg. 'Sicut dicit philosophus in principio metaphysice'; comment, 'Incipiens ergo Aristoteles '. At the end is a subject-index which beg. 'Actio id est operatio uirtutis'. f. 142. The scribe's name is apparently given on f. 2, 'In nomine trino hoc opus incipio. / Assit principio s. Maria meo / Raynaldstou[n]', see below. Vellum; ff. 155. 113/4 in. x 81/2 in. Middle of XV cent. Gatherings, i-vi¹⁰, vii-x¹², xi¹⁰, xii-xiv^l2, xv^2. Sec fol. 'que facit'. Initials flourished in red, violet, and blue. Belonged to (the writer of the MS.?) William Raynaldston or Raynaldson, fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, see two erased notes on f. 1, 'Liber mag. Willelmi Raynaldson mutuatus mag. Iohanni Gunthorp, quem teneor restituere ad suum beneplacitum', and 'detur in collegio sancti Michaelis Cantabrigie mag. Will. Raynaldson socio eiusdem collegii'. John Gunthorp was Proctor 1454-1455, secretary to the Queen [Elizabeth Woodvillel, Warden of King's Hall 1468-1474, and Dean of Wells 1473-1499 (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). Raynaldson is mentioned as commissioner for new schools, 1457, and occurs again 1464, 1475 (Grace Book A, cd. Lcathes, 1897, pp. 8, 43, 114). Belonged afterwards to Archbishop Cranmer and [John, Lord] Lumicy. Lumley cat. f. 365; cat. of 1666, f. 8 b; CMA. 8533.