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Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, II, 380 I

Owner institution

Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea

Date

1300 - 1399

Number of leaves: 52 fols.

  • The manuscript appears to be incomplete at the beginning of fol. 1, with the text starting on the following folio: “vel sinister a suo situ vel loco”.
  • Fol. 52r.: “Et sic est finis questionum super Communi perspectiva disputatarum per famossissimum doctorem magistrum Blasium de Parma septem liberalium [artium] preclarissimum illustratorem quas compilavit in felici studio papiensi anno domino 1390”.
  • According to Federici Vescovini e Biard, this is the oldest and most concise codex that transmits the work of Blasius of Parma, but it is also the one with the most omissions.

Studies

  • Federici Vescovini G., Opere di Biagio Pelacani da Parma, in G. Federici-Vescovini – F. Baroncelli (eds.), Filosofia, scienza e astrologia nel Trecento europeo. Biagio Pelacani parmense, Padova 1992: 188

Editions

  • Federici Vescovini G. – Biard J. (eds.), Blaise de Parme, Quaestiones super perspectiva communis, Paris 2009: 52
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