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Senate House Library, University of London

Aristotle, Italy


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 1037

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Aristotle, Italy

Date(s): 15th century

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 2 fragments

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Details of the creator were unknown at the time of the compilation of this finding aid.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Aristotle, Italy papers, 15th century, comprise fragments of a single leaf containing part of Leonardo Bruni's translation into Latin of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, printed in Decem Librorum Moralium Aristotelis Tres Conversationes(Paris, 1535-1537).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two items arranged in original order.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours' notice is required for research visits.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

Rowan Watson, Descriptive List of Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts in the Senate House Library (London, 1976).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl, AIM25 cataloguer.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Medieval period | Historical periods
Translations | Documents | Information sources
Ethics

Personal names
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | ancient Greek philosopher and scientist
Bruni | Leonardo | 1369-1444 | also called Leonardo Aretino | Italian humanist scholar x Aretino | Leonardo

Corporate names

Places