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Aristotle: The writings on logic

1350 · 3 pictures

A mid-fourteenth-century manuscript of Aristotle's writings on logic, held by a Swiss library and likely made for scholarly study in a monastic or university setting. The three pictures show a blue and gold penwork initial with burnished gold, a full manuscript page with a large decorated initial and dense text columns, and a ruled diagram of crossing lines with circular figures and marginal labels, offering a designer examples of medieval layout, decorated capitals and diagrammatic structure.

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