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Source des données : Mmmonk

• Manuscript 502 is a fourteenth-century copy of Walter Burley's exposition on Aristotle's Ethica. The author, Burley (c. 1275-1344), was an English cleric and logician. Following a political career under Edward II, he acquired a master's degree in theology and became a canon. At the request of others he translated works of Aristotle into English. The text is written in a Gothic hybrid script in two columns per page. Spaces have been reserved for initials and rubrics, but these have never been added. The text itself does not show any signs of use; there is hardly any annotation (this is found primarily in the first part of the text) nor any later additions or alterations. Furthermore, the text is incomplete, it ends abruptly on f. 185v, halfway the second chapter of Book 10. The presence of the Ten Duinen stamp on this leaf (see below) indicates that this was already the case in the early seventeenth century. The binding is medieval and consists of blind stamped full brown leather over wooden boards. The fenestra has survived and is attached to the back board. Traces of clamps and mounds survive. The codex was originally owned by the Ter Doest abbey, and found its way into the collection of Ten Duinen. The cross-shaped stamp of the latter abbey is found on the first and final leaves. The final end leaf is a twelfth-century fragment of the Venerable Bede's Homeliarum evangelii, book 2, homily 2. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]