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Title

Liber metaphisice ; Liber ethicorum

Authors

• Aristotle
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Willem, van Moerbeke, approximately 1215-1286, translator

Call number

Oversize LJS 25
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946458153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733084242
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4645815 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1330546 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3463f https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs25.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1275-1299

Place

Italy

Summary

Aristotle's Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, in the Latin translations by the Dominican William of Moerbeke from the Greek, followed by the first page of the Oeconomica, a work commonly attributed to Aristotle, in the Latin translation known as the translatio Durandi, attributed to Durand of Auvergne. The Aristotle texts are preceded by a table of contents for the Nicomachean ethics. The outer bifolium of the first gathering (before f. 1 and after f. 10), containing the beginning of the Metaphysics, a gathering after f. 22, and two leaves after f. 72 are all lacking. Many early marginal notes, some affected by cropping, and occasional manicules.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from titles for predominant works (in explicits, f. 42v and 77v).
   
• 1. f.i recto-ii recto: [Table of contents for Metaphysics, Books 1-12]
   
• 2. f.1r-42v: Liber metaphisice Aristotelis nove translationis.
   
• 3. f.43r-77v: Liber ethicorum Aristotilis.
   
• 4.f.78r-78v: [Economica fragment]
   

Extent

78 leaves : 310 x 220 (190-228 x 123-154) mm. bound to 325 x 228 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii + 78; 1¹²(-2) 2-3¹² 4⁸ 5¹² 6¹⁰ 7⁸ 7⁸(-2). Catchwords on the last versos of gatherings 5-7 (second work), lower center.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late 15th- or early 16th-century Florentine leather over wooden boards with panels ruled in saltires and stamped with Greek-cross tools; remains of 2 clasps and a chiseled hasp-mark for chaining at the bottom edge of the lower cover.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 36-37 lines (f. 1r-42v), 53 lines (f. 43r-44r), 45-46 lines (f. 44v-77v), and 44 lines (f. 78r-78v); ruled in faint ink (f. 1r-42v) and lead (f. 43r-78v) with vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

In first part of manuscript (f. 1r-42v), 2 5-line (f. 7v, 12v) and 6 4-line (f. 6v, 14r, 22v, 27v, 31v, 38v) puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork infilling and extensions, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork and extensions, paragraph marks in red or blue, running titles in alternating red and blue letters, capitals touched with red, minimal rubrics in red; in second part of manuscript (f. 43r-78v), partial illuminated inhabited bar border (f. 43r), 1 7-line (f. 78r) illuminated inhabited initial, 2 5-line (f. 49r-inhabited, 69r) and 3 4-line (f. 46r, 62r-inhabited, 64v) illuminated initials, and 1 3-line (f. 78r) illuminated initial, 2-line initials in red with purple penwork or blue with red penwork. One initial has been cut from the manuscript at the beginning of the second work (f. 43r).

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand (f. i recto-ii recto) and Gothic book script by at least 3 hands (f. 1r-42v, 43r-44r, 44v-78v).

Provenance

• Inscription dated 1368 (f. i recto); sold at Sotheby's, 10 Dec. 1980, lot 79, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2009.
   

Subjects topical

• Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Philosophy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber metaphisice Aristotelis nove translationis, f. 1r
• fol. 43r — Liber ethicorum Aristotilis, f. 43r
• fol. 78r — Economica fragment, f. 78r

Decorations

• fol. 6v — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Manicule, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Puzzle initial, Initial N, f. 7v
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v
• fol. 12v — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 12v
• fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
• fol. 13v — Manicule, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Puzzle initial, Initial E, f. 14r
• fol. 15r — Manicule, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Manicule, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Manicule, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Manicule, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Manicule, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Manicule, f. 18r
• fol. 22r — Manicule, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Puzzle initial, Initial E, f. 22v
• fol. 27v — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 27v
• fol. 31v — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 31v
• fol. 38v — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 38v
• fol. 43r — Inhabited border (initial cut out), f. 43r
• fol. 43r — Manicule, f. 43r
• fol. 43v — Manicule, f. 43v
• fol. 44r — Manicule, f. 44r
• fol. 44v — Manicule, f. 44v
• fol. 45r — Manicule, f. 45r
• fol. 46r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 46r
• fol. 46r — Manicule, f. 46r
• fol. 46v — Manicule, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Manicule, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Manicule, f. 47v
• fol. 48v — Manicule, f. 48v
• fol. 49r — Inhabited initial, Initial U, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Manicule, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Manicule, f. 50r
• fol. 50v — Manicule, f. 50v
• fol. 51r — Manicule, f. 51r
• fol. 51v — Manicule, f. 51v
• fol. 52r — Manicule, f. 52r
• fol. 53r — Manicule, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Manicule, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Manicule, f. 54r
• fol. 55v — Manicule, f. 55v
• fol. 57r — Manicule, f. 57r
• fol. 58r — Manicule, f. 58r
• fol. 59r — Manicule, f. 59r
• fol. 61r — Manicule, f. 61r
• fol. 61r — Drawing, Foliate design, f. 61r
• fol. 62r — Inhabited initial, Initial Q, f. 62r
• fol. 62r — Manicule, f. 62r
• fol. 62v — Manicule, f. 62v
• fol. 63r — Manicule, f. 63r
• fol. 63v — Manicule, f. 63v
• fol. 64v — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 64v
• fol. 64v — Decorated catchword, Fish, f. 64v
• fol. 67v — Manicule, f. 67v
• fol. 68r — Manicule, f. 68r
• fol. 68v — Manicule, f. 68v
• fol. 69r — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 69r
• fol. 69r — Manicule, f. 69r
• fol. 70r — Manicule, f. 70r
• fol. 72v — Decorated catchword, Fish, f. 72v
• fol. 72v — Manicule, f. 72v
• fol. 74r — Manicule, f. 74r
• fol. 75v — Manicule, f. 75v
• fol. 76r — Manicule, f. 76r
• fol. 76v — Manicule, f. 76v
• fol. 77v — Drawing, Face, f. 77v
• fol. 78r — Inhabited initial, Initial I, f. 78r
• fol. 78r — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 78r