Article ID: CBB330132920

A Misunderstood Humanistic Version of Euclid's Optics (2019)

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The manuscript Urb. Lat. 1329 from the Vatican Library is a luxury parchment codex of 67 folios, copied in 1458 by Michael Foresius and commissioned by Francesco Cereo da Borgo. Folios 1r-19r contain a treatise entitled "Euclidis de aspectuum diversitate libellus." So far, neither transcriptions nor critical editions of "De aspectuum" have been published. Yet, the references to this title contained in the "De prospectiva pingendi" by Piero della Francesca suggest the importance of this latin version of Euclid's "Optics," known to scholars for a long time. Until now, it was believed that the only manuscript containing the "Optics" under the title "De aspectuum diversitate" was Urb. Lat. 1329. Recently, a second manuscript with the same title was discovered in the Ambrosiana Library in Milan. A thorough study of the two manuscripts allows to conclude that 1) the Ambrosiana codex is an apograph of Urb. Lat. 1329 and was therefore written after 1458; 2) Urb. Lat. 1329 contains a Latin version of the "Optics" that Heiberg called "Recensio Theonis"; 3) contrary to what has been thought so far, the Latin translation of the "De aspectuum diversitate" was made directly from Greek, and not from Arabic; 4) several clues suggest the Codex Vat. Gr. 204 as being the Greek manuscript translated into Latin in the sixth decade of the 15th century.

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Authors & Contributors
Garofalo, Ivan
Ciocci, Argante
Gatta, Massimo
Quaglino, Margherita
Pietrobelli, Antoine
Witt, Mathias
Concepts
Manuscripts
Critical editions
Latin language
Mathematics
Greek language
Linguistics; philology
Time Periods
Renaissance
Medieval
15th century
16th century
Ancient
14th century
Places
Italy
Florence (Italy)
Europe
Turin (Italy)
France
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