Beinecke MS 362               Italy, s. XV^^2
Aristotle, De interpretatione, Lat. tr. Ioannes Argyropylus, etc.

1.  Written on the front pastedown and flyleaf is a brief account, in Latin, of
the life of Ioannes Argyropylos:  Iohannes Argyropylus exul post Byzantii
excidium ad Cosmum confugit...anno 1498 adeoque Argyropylum eo tempore fuisse
Romae docentem literas graecas.

2.  ff. 1r-21v  Prefatio Iohannis argiropyly [sic] Constantinopolitani ad
clarissimum ac prestantissimum uirum Petrum medicem In libros aristotelis de
interpetratione [sic] et generatione raciocinationis.  Iohannes argiropylus
nobilissimo atque doctissimo uiro Petro medici Incolumitatem bonam fortunam
perpetuamque felicitatem.  Institui nobilissime atque doctissime petre non
ullos aristotelis libros elegantius...[text, f. 3r:] Aristotelis peripateci de
interpetratione [sic] seu de Enuntiatione.  Pars Prima.  Primum diffinire opportet
quid sit nomen et quid verbum est...At fieri nequit ut eidem simul contraria
unquam insit.  Aristotelis peripatetici de interpetratione seu de Enuntiatione
liber.  Explicit.

     Aristotle, De interpretatione, Lat. tr. of Ioannes Argyropylos, with his
prefatory letter to Piero de' Medici.

3.  ff. 22r-45r Aristotelis Resolutionum.  Priorum primus.  Primum dicere
opportet circa quid cuiusque nostra consideratio est.  Quippe circa...etiam cum
alterius modi figure ad modos alterius comparantur.  f. 45v, now glued to an
inserted sheet of paper, appears to contain additional notes and the crude
portrait of a young woman

     Aristotle, Priora analytica, through Book 1.7.29b28.

     Paper (watermarks: unidentified flower in gutter), ff. i + 45 + i, 205 x 148
(142 x 88) mm.  28 long lines.  Ruled in hard point; double vertical bounding
lines, full length.
     I^^10, II^^8, III^^10, IV^^18 (-16).  Catchwords perpendicular to text along
inner vertical bounding line.
     Written in italic by a single scribe.
     Plain initials, 2- to 1-line, and headings, in red.  Numerous tables and
crescent diagrams within the text and margins, in black and red.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Red, spattered paper case.

Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century, presumably as a
school text; there are frequent marginal doodles.  Unidentified shelf-marks
include:  1. white and blue oval label, with "110" written in red ink, glued to
spine; 2. "30" in brown ink in upper right corner of back pastedown; 3. pencil
notation "L3I" on verso of back flyleaf; 4. "9" in brown ink written on spine.
Acquired from L. C. Witten in 1965 as the gift of Edwin J. and Frederick W.
Beinecke.

secundo folio:  cum auditate

Barbara A. Shailor