12022-10-20T22:35:03-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52406361plain2022-10-20T22:35:03-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52The word refers to a medium-size volume, one quarter the area of a full sheet of writing material. The quires of quarto volumes were usually made by folding two sheets in half, then in half again.
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12022-10-20T15:56:16-07:00MS C189 Textblock12plain2022-12-10T13:17:22-08:00Beyond 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
34leaves : 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, quartomanuscript
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 blockof 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:
Folios 1r-8r: Isagoge (Introduction to Categories), written by Porphyry of Tyre, translated by Boethius:
Folios 8r-19r: Praedicamenta, also known as Categoriae, written by Aristotle, translated by Boethius
Folios 19r-27r: Perihermenias, also known as De interpretatione written by Aristotle, translated by Boethius