Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, f. 1r-v: Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Script, f. 1r-v: Gothic book hand; commentary in anglicana script. Layout, f. 1r-v: 17 long lines, copied every second line to leave space for interlinear commentary.
Former Owner(s):
In the lower margin of the recto, a note, s. XV, in anglicana script: Iste liber pertinet thome <?>, referring to the book in which this leaf served as pastedown. This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering.
he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children; by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
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Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346. f. 1r-v: See online, by Brepols, the Aristoteles Latinus Database, for the Physica of Aristotle, transl. by Iacobus Veneticus with revisions by the Dominican, William of Moerbeke (ca. 1215-ca. 1286), Liber 2, Chapter 5, Textus 48-55, pp. 78-81 (in Immanuel Bekker, nn. 196b-197a). See also the online Corpus Corporum repositorium operum Latinorum apud universitatem Turicensem (Universität... Incipit, f. 1r-v: et fortuna infinita est, tamen in quibusdam <?> aliquis <venire>. Cum fiant contingentia//. Explicit, f. 1r-v: //quoniam in hiis que sunt preter necessarium et quod sicut frequenter sunt quedam circa que contigit que est propter hoc.
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