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Title

In libros magnorum moralium questiones selecte

Other related names

• Nigroni, Giovanni Battista, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 209
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5977518
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5977518

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1675?

Place

Genoa?, Italy

Summary

Responses to 10 questions on happiness (beatitudo and felicitas), passions (passio), and prudence (prudentia) related to the Magna moralia, an epitome of Aristotelian ethical thought traditionally attributed to Aristotle.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   

Watermark

Includes a cross crosslet or budded cross enclosed in a circle topped with a crown (for example, f. 9-10 gutter)

Extent

38 leaves : 205 x 150 (156 x 106-110) mm. bound to 209 x 157 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 38 + i leaves; [i-xx], 1-30, [31-56 (30-56 blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment, gilt-tooled, with floral centerpiece and initials G B N (matches binding of LJS 208, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania); sprinkled edges.

Layout

Written in 28 long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand, possibly Giovanni Battista Nigroni's, but probably not the same hand as LJS 208, also possibly Nigroni's.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Giovanni Battista Nigroni (binding with initials G B N).
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 40.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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