Marston MS 28     Italy, s. XIII/XIV
Epitome of Aristotle, in It.

ff. 1r-18r [O]ngne arte eivgne [sic] dottrina e' d'ongne operatione et 
d'ongne [sic] eleccione si pare a domandar alcun bene...E percio che a 
benerdinare [sic] le leggi sie mestieri ragione et experienca deo gratis 
Amen.  Explicit Ethica Aristotilis tranlata [sic] a magistro Tadeo in 
uolgare.  f. 18v blank

Epitome of Aristotle's Ethics translated into Italian by Taddeo
d'Alderotto (ca. 1235-1295).  There is some confusion as to the relationship 
between the Italian translation by Taddeo d'Alderotto and that used/made by 
Bono Giamboni in his translation of Latini's Tresor, Book VI (L. Gaiter, 
ed., Il  Tesoro di Brunetto Latini volgarizzato da Bono Giamboni [Bologna, 
1880]),  vol. III); see L. Frati, "L'Etica di Aristotile volgarizzata da 
Taddeo di Alderotto," in Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 68 
(1916) pp. 192-95.  
	
	Parchment (palimpsest:  written over an unidentified canon law text, 
s. XIII 3/4), ff. iii (paper) + 18 + iii (paper), 338 x 223 (252 x 170) mm.  
2 columns, 35 lines.  Faintly ruled in lead; prickings at four corners of
each text column and in outer margin.
	I 8, II 10.  Horizontal catchwords center of lower margin, verso.
	Written in a calligraphic notarial hand with tall ascenders and
strongly looped forms of letters d and b, above top line.
	Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled.
	Binding:  England or U.S.A. [?], s. xix/xx.  Quarter bound in orange
goatskin with a gold-tooled label on spine ("Aristotle.  Ethica, in
Italian.  XIVth Century") and marbled paper sides.  Edges gilt.

Written in Italy at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century;
remains of inscription, s. xv?, on f. 18v:  "Questo libro ***." 
Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  che 'll'uno

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 28.

Barbara A. Shailor