Beinecke MS 240                                                        Italy, s. XV^^1
Aristotle, Ethica Nichomachea (in Greek)

          ff. 1r-132v    [Greek]. [text:] [Greek]. [explicit:] [Greek].

          B. M. W. Knox has listed variant readings between Beinecke MS 240
     and the OCT for 1094a to 1097a (Ziskind Catalogue, pp. 45-46); I.
     Bekker, Aristotelis opera (Berlin, 1831) v. 2, 1094al-1181b23.

          Parchment, ff. ii (nearly contemporary paper) + 132 + ii (nearly
     contemporary paper), 209 x 144 (151 x 92) mm. Written in 27-28 long
     lines, ruled with hard point on hair side; double vertical and
     horizontal bounding lines, full across; prickings in outer and upper
     margins.
          I-XII^^10, XIII^^12. Catchwords in center of lower margin; quires
     signed in Roman numerals along lower edge (many have been trimmed).
          Written by two scribes. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-120v; Scribe 2: ff. 121r-
     132v. On paleographical grounds, Scribe 1 can perhaps be identified as
     a pupil of Manuel Chrysolaras. D. Harlfinger, Die Textgeschichte der
     pseudo-aristotelischen Schrift...(Amsterdam, 1971) p. 420, identifies
     the hand of Scribe 1 in Beinecke MS 240 with that of a manuscript in
     Florence, Laurentian Conv. Supp. 47 (=AF 2755). For the hand of
     Chrysoloras and Palla Strozzi, see R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands
     400-1600 A.D. (Oxford, 1981) p. 24.
          Headings in red. Latin interlinear glosses in red (ff. 1r-25v), in
     humanistic cursive script.
          Folio 1r is rubbed and barely legible.
          Binding: s. xix. Rigid vellum case, in the same manner as Beinecke
     MSS 257 and 264.

          Written in Italy in the first half of the 15th century; according
     to P. Moraux it was acquired by Guillaume Pellicier probably between
     1539 and 1542, then in 1573 by Claude Naulot. Belonged to the Jesuit
     College of Clermont, Paris, (no. 247; notes on f. 1r: "Coll. Paris.
     Societatis Jesu," and "Paraphe au desir de l'arrest du 5. juillet 1763.
     Mesnil"). Acquired by Gerard and Johann Meerman, ca. 1773, Bibliotheca
     Meermanniana v. 4, p. 46, no. 291 (on spine); sale to Sir Thomas
     Phillipps (8 June-3 July 1824; stamp with no. 6764 on f. i, recto).
     Purchased from Laurence Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind
     Charitable Trust in 1957 (MS 7).

     Bibliograpy: Faye and Bond, p. 45, no. 240. 
	     Ziskind Catalogue, pp. 45-46.

     Barbara A. Shailor