Poetica

Description

Title: Poetica
Creator: Aristotle
Published / Created: [ca. 1550]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: 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").
Description: In Latin and Greek.
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.
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1989.
Extent: ff. 10 : 195 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Aristotle.
Subject (Topic): Classical literature
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Aristotle
Classical literature
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Aristotle, Poetica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.