Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Philosophia moralis

Call number

Ms. Codex 1027
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3865468
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3865468

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1780

Place

France?

Summary

Treatise on ethics arranged in four parts addressing the external principles, internal principles, rules, and morality of human actions. The fourth part includes a discussion of economics and politics as well as virtues and vices. A table of contents in the same hand follows the work.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from part headings (p. 6, 36, 117, 168).
   

Extent

217 leaves : 183 x 114 mm. bound to 187 x 128 mm

Foliation

Paper, 217; ii, 1-39, 39-40, 40-41, 41-42, 42-216, 216, 216-217, 217, 217-251, 253-321, ii; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (Rubin).

Layout

Written in 20-22 long lines, not ruled.

Provenance

• Signed "Evrard Bavacensus 1780" (p. 318).
   
• Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books, 2005.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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