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Poetica
Creator
Title
Poetica.
Created
Italy, [ca. 1550]
Physical Description
ff. 10 : paper ; 195 x 145 mm.
Language
Latin; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Watermark: coat of arms with a bend, surmounted by a star and with a roundel depending from it, not in Briquet.
Script: Copied by one scribe in small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria; words in Greek written by the same hand.
Undecorated.
Binding: Sewn on a gilded leather thong; no cover.
In Latin and Greek.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1989.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of Aristoteles, Poetica, anonymous Latin translation of chapters 1-7. On f. 2r the translator has replaced Homer and Empedocles, cited by Aristotle, by Virgil and Lucretius ("Nihil tamen commune est Virgilio et Lucretio nisi carmen").
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2011
References
Aristotle, Poetica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Aristotle, Poetica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Italy - 16th century.
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