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Title

Commentarius in universam Aristotelis moralem

Call number

Ms. Codex 962
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3596878
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3596878

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1660

Place

France

Summary

Commentary on Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics, Oeconomica, and Politics, followed by a table of contents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 4r); earliest date based on the engraving of Marie-Therese as queen of France.
   

Extent

354 leaves : 219 x 152 (174 x 118) mm. bound to 227 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 354 + i (contemporary paper); 1-137, 238-437, [iii], 461-490, 489-608, 607-630, 630-631, 631-734, 733-746, 748-749, 749-806; contemporary pagination in ink; [xiv, 1-694]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary mottled calf, gilt ornamentation on spine.

Decoration

Empty full-page engraved historiated/vignette title frame of a large wreath (f. 1r); full-page engraved portraits of Louis XIV and Marie-Therese (f. 2v-3r) with historiated frames, crests, and short biographical texts. Outer margins of frames and bottom lines of text were lost in trimming.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Bennett Gilbert, 2004.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Political science--Early works to 1800
• State, The--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Engravings
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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