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Title

Dits moraux des philosophes

Authors

• Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, active 11th century
• Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80

Other related names

• Guillaume, de Tignonville, d. 1414, translator
• Courtecuisse, Jean, d. 1423, translator
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D, attributed name

Call number

Ms. Codex 941
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935776063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78179146
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3577606

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

14--

Place

France

Summary

French translation by Guillaume de Tignonville of the Latin translation of an 11th-century Arabic work containing aphorisms or maxims from genuine or spurious works of 22 philosophers and poets, including Hermetic maxims, followed by Jean Courtecuisse's French translation of a Latin work on the cardinal virtues by Martin of Braga but attributed to Seneca, printed in 1491.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from 18th-century note (flyleaf v verso).
   

Extent

100 leaves : 251 x 177 (175 x 115) mm. bound to 262 x 189 mm

Foliation

Parchment, v (modern paper) + 100 + iii (modern paper); 1-100; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century stamped calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 29 lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

4-line initials in blue and gold with red and blue filigree (f. 1r, 3r); paragraph marks and subsequent 2-line initials alternate between gold with blue filigree and blue with red filigree.

Script

Written in bâtarde script.

Provenance

• According to the 18th-century note (flyleaf v verso), signed "Muraire," the volume was sold "chez le Duc de la Valliere" in 1788 (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Hermetic philosophers
• Philosophy--Quotations, maxims, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Cardinal virtues--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Aphorisms
• Maxims
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Philosophy
• Arabic
• Aphorisms

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Manicule, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Manicule, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Manicule, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial, Initial H, f. 3r
• fol. 4v — Manicule, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Manicule, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Manicule, f. 5v
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 11r
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 12r
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial, Initial Y, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — Manicule, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Manicule, f. 14v
• fol. 15v — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 15v
• fol. 19r — Maniculel, f. 19r
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Manicule, f. 19v
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 22v
• fol. 23v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Manicule, f. 24r
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 25r
• fol. 27r — Manicule, f. 27r
• fol. 28r — Manicule, f. 28r
• fol. 30r — Manicule, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Manicule, f. 30v
• fol. 31r — Manicule, f. 31r
• fol. 33r — Manicule, f. 33r
• fol. 35r — Manicule, f. 35r
• fol. 43r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 43r
• fol. 49v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 49v
• fol. 55r — Manicule, f. 55r
• fol. 55v — Manicule, f. 55v
• fol. 56v — Manicule, f. 56v
• fol. 57r — Manicule, f. 57r
• fol. 60v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 60v
• fol. 73v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 73v
• fol. 79v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 79v
• fol. 80r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 80r
• fol. 80v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 80v
• fol. 81r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 81r
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial, Initial G, f. 81v
• fol. 83v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 83v
• fol. 87v — Manicule, f. 87v
• fol. 89r — Manicule, f. 89r
• fol. 93v — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 93v
• fol. 95r — Illuminated initial, Initial M, f. 95r
• fol. 95v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 95v
• fol. 96v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 96v
• fol. 97r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 97r
• fol. 97v — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 97v
• fol. 97v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 97v
• fol. 98r — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 98r
• fol. 98v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 98v
• fol. 99r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 99r
• fol. 99r — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 99r
• fol. 99v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 99v