a1r Acciaiuolus, Donatus: [Letter of dedication] addressed to Cosimo de' Medici. ‘Prooemium in expositionem libri Ethicorum Aristotelis ad clarissimum uirum Cosmum Medicem.’ BSB‑Ink ascribes the dedication to Piero, Cosimo's son. View entry in Person IndexView entry in Person Index
a5v Acciaiuolus, Donatus: Expositio super libros Ethicorum Aristotelis in novam traductionem Argyropuli. See Lohr (1967), 400-1 no. 3. View entry in Person Index
2L6r Acciaiuolus, Donatus: ‘Epilogus libri Ethicorum.’ Incipit: ‘[E]xpositis omnibus iis que in hoc libro moralium declaratione indigere uidebantur . . .’ View entry in Person Index
Imprint:
Florence: Apud sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli, 1478. Folio.
Collation:
a b8 c6 d d–h4 I10 L12 m–u10 x4 A–I102L12. Collation as BMC not GW (`d d4’, as against ‘d8 ‘).
A-007(1)
First copy
The collations of both Bodleian copies are as BMC not GW. In both copies the last printed line on the first di is a later addition.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian (for Boutourlin?) gold-tooled red morocco with light blue pastedowns and endleaves.
Size: 342 × 252 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 328 × 220 mm.
Running headings in early black ink and a few early marginal notes by two different hands in gatherings a–c. Translation of the colophon into Italian on L11v.
On a1r contemporary Florentine decorated epigraphic nine-line initial C in gold with white vine-stems on blue, green, and pale pinkish-brown; Pächt and Alexander II, 109 no. pr. 50. Occasional epigraphic initials are supplied in blue.
Provenance: Heavily erased and unread note of ownership on a1r.
Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark ‘No. 191': see Catalogue (1831); sale (1839), lot 477.
Purchased for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 2.4.
A-007(2)
Second copy
Wanting the blank leaf L12.
Binding: Half parchment over pasteboard. Manuscript title on the lower edge.
Size: 336 × 238 × 68 mm.
Size of leaf: 324 × 225 mm.
Running headings in early brown ink; early marginal notes and underlining by various hands in gatherings a–h.
Provenance: ‘Cioffi 1880', cutting from bookseller's catalogue with note in the hand of I. Bywater, probably name of bookseller and year of sale.
Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 7.
Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. A 3.1.