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Metaphysicae, book 14.

Accession number
MS M.809
Object title
Metaphysicae, book 14.
Display Date
between 1300 and 1350.
Created
Italy, between 1300 and 1350.
Binding
Contemporary deerskin in wooden boards, originally sewn on old leather bands.
Credit line
Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., 1940.
Description
49 leaves (2 columns, 38 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 180 mm
Provenance
Guiseppe Martini (sale catalogue 20, Lugano, 1932, no. 33); William G. Kelso, Jr., Brooklyn, New York; Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., New York; purchased from Harper in 1940.
Notes
Ms. philosophy; written and decorated in Italy in the first half of the 14th century.
One of ten known copies of the old recension of this text, translated directly from the Greek, rather than the Arabic--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: penwork ornament.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Greek
Century
Classification