Extent:
154 leaves. Note:
Incipit: Deus cum tua sapientia et benedictione. Incipimus librum
de uenatione substantie et accidentis et compositi. Quoniam logica
est scentia difficilis labilis et prolixa ...
Transcribed in northern Italy, possibly Padua or Venice, at the end
of the 14th century.
The text was carefully corrected after it was copied. The
corrections, mostly supplying omitted passages, many quite lengthy,
are not in the hand of the original scribe, but are almost
certainly contemporary, suggesting that the manuscript was made in
a commercial shop. Later notes in an elegant Italic hand may be by
Nicolaus Pol.
Early foliation in Arabic numerals.
Boxed horizontal catchwords.
Written by two scribes in a small gothic book hand, influenced by
cursive scripts or semitextualis. The second scribe begins at leaf
75 recto.
Red rubrics, alternating red and blue paragraph marks; three- to
two-line initials, alternating red and blue, all with red pen
decoration, except leaf 1 verso, which is red initial with blue
penwork. Includes two seven-line illuminated initials on leaf 1
recto and 75 recto. Initials are pink, edged in black, filled
acanthus curls and other foliate motifs in red, pink, green, and
yellow on deep blue with white tracery, on highly polished gold
grounds, with curling acanthus at the corners and sides and
polished gold balls with black rays or spikes. The initial on leaf
75 recto extends into a short bar border in the same decorated
style with knots.
Early wallet binding, with the back cover continuing to form a flat
fore-edge flap and then extending three-quarters over the front
cover, of blind-tooled brown leather over pasteboard; spine with
four raised bands including one at the top for the head band; head
and tail bands tooled in blind. Front cover with three sets of
quadruple fillets forming a narrow outer panel with intertwined
vines, filled with floral and leaf stamps; a middle border with
small quatrefoil stamps, and a rectangular panel with eight large
diamond stamps of a unicorn, arranged in pairs, the last row
slightly cut off. Back cover with similar outer border, middle
border with round floral stamps and diamond-shaped fleur-de-lys
stamps, and a narrow inner panel of rope interlace. Fore edge flap
tooled with similar motifs, with a narrow central panel of
diamond-shaped fleur-de-lys stamps, restored.
Leaf 154 blank.
Purchase; Les Enluminures; 2018; MS.18.009.
Previously owned by the physician and Llull aficionado, Nicolaus
Pol (d. 1532). Pol's ownership inscription was on the verso of the
front flyleaf when the manuscript was in the Biblioteca Collegiata
at San Candido, Innichen; it can be seen in the digital
reproduction of the manuscript available at the Reproducció
digital del Raimundus-Lullus-Institut de Freiburg. The original
flyleaves were removed and replaced by modern paper flyleaves by a
subsequent owner. After Pol's death, the manuscript was transferred
to the Biblioteca della Collegiata (Stiftsbibliothek) San Candido,
Innichen, South Tyrol. The volume was purchased by Haven O'More in
1978 from Quaritch. It latterly belonged to Joost R. Ritman who
acquired it from Sotheby's in 1989. Genre:
Flap bindings-Specimens-16th century Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
Logic--Early works to 1800
Knowledge, Theory of--Early works to 1800
Place
Preferred form
Italy
Original form
Italy
Other form
Italie
Italie (?)
Italie (Toscane?)
Italie (Venise ?).
Italie ?
Italie (région de Venise ?).
Italie (Florence ?)
Italie,
Italie.
Itàlia
Italien
Italia
Italië
Italie (Toscane ?)
Itàlia (Toscana?)
Italien (Toskana?)
Italy (Tuscany?)
Italia (Toscana?)
Italy (Verona)
Italy (Naples?)
Italy (Florence?)
Italy (Naples?)(
Italy (Rome?)
Italy (Florence)
Italy, Bologna (?)
Italy, probably Naples
Italy, Naples
Italy, possibly Naples
Italy (perhaps Bologna)
Italy (Nonantola)
Probably Northern Italy
Padua or Venice
Italy (Tuscany)
Italy, northern (?)
Italy and France (illumination)
Italy and France (?)
Most likely northern Italy
Probably northern Italy (Verona?)
[Italy]
Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
Italy [Ancona or Pesaro?], [copied by Joseph ben Nissim Fermi?]
