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• 1 2022-10-20T15:56:16-07:00 MS C189 Textblock 12 plain 2022-12-10T13:17:22-08:00 Beyond the cover
   
  Textblock
  Language: Latin
  Country: Italy?
  Century: 14th? 
  Date: c. 1301 and 1400
  Script: Gothic rotunda
  Scribe: 
  • Written by a Robertus: “Robertus nomine scripsit” -- colophon, folio 34r.
  Manufacture, Distribution: [Italy]: [producer not identified],
  
  Figurative Decoration: 
  • Drawings of fish and birds in lower margins on folios 9r, 10v, 11r, 20v
  Other Decoration: 
  • 6- line initial C in blue and red on folio 1r
  • 2- and 3-line initials in two shades of red, some of which are embellished with pen decorations in blue or brown
  • Paragraph marks in blue and red or just red
  • Title "p[er] germinias" in red capital letters on upper margin of folios 19v-21r
  • Spaces left for 2-, 3- and 5-line initials on folios 5r, 5v, 6r, 6v, 7r, 8r, 11v, 16v, 17r, 18r, 18v, 19r, 19v, 20r, 22v, 25r, 27r, 27v, 28v, 29r, 29v, 30v, 31v, 32r, 32v, 33r
  • Guide letters visible on most folios in the upper left corner of the page 
  Number of texts: 3
  Description:
  • Collection of works by Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle's works
  • 34 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 211 x 153 (127 x 77) mm;  bound: 215 x 160 mm
  • ff. 1- 34v - Contemporary binding made from reused parchment bifolium
  • Unfoliated, quarto manuscript
  • 31 long lines ruled in lead.
  • Front flyleaves 
  • Neumatic notation.
  Condition:
  • Minor imperfections and signs of early repairs on the manuscript leaves. 
  • Ink is abraded, with some text illegible. 
  • Tears and holes with loss of text on several folios. 
  • Corrections, overwriting and annotations, including the use of  trigons by at least two contemporary hands, one of which is probably the scribe. 
  • Later annotations, especially on folios 19r-33r, by at least two hands. 
  • Some of the annotations on the upper margins are lost due to damage to the parchment.
   
  The text block of the manuscript was produced together as a single unit. It does not look like there are any missing leaves or that there were more gatherings either in the beginning or at the end. 
   
  Contents:
  1. Folios 1r-8r: Isagoge (Introduction to Categories), written by Porphyry of Tyre, translated by Boethius: 
  2. Folios 8r-19r: Praedicamenta, also known as Categoriae, written by Aristotle, translated by Boethius
  3. Folios 19r-27r: Perihermenias, also known as De interpretatione written by Aristotle, translated by Boethius
  4.  Folios 27r-34r: Liber sex principiorum
  5. Folio 34v: blank