MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 190

Summary Catalogue no.: 18771

Aristotle, Metaphysics (tr. Johannes Argyropulos , with letter to Pietro Medici)

Rubric: Liber Aristotelis primae philosophiae, quem Johannes Argyrpylus Byzantius causa magnifici Petri Medicis, Florentini, traduxit

Colophon: Liber Aristotelis ultimus primae philosophiae finit, qui ab eloquentissimo viro ac prestantissimo philosopho Argyroplilo Bizantio de Greco in Latinum traductus est; quem ego Franciscus Taurus, Ariminensis eultor Dianae, raptim sculpsi anno gratie m.cccc.Ixx. kal. xv. Nov. τεΛος, laus Deo

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 144 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 286 × 213 mm.

Layout

1 col., 31 lines, 175–190 × 105–110 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Franciscus Taurus of Rimini, fol. 144v.

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 284, tentatively assigning to Florence on stylistic grounds)

History

Origin: 1470 ; Italian, Florence (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the following sources:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 179

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 284

H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 194

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 195

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321