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Title

Leticha /

Authors

• Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295

Other related names

• Burr, Charles W. 1861-1944, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 243
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543434
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580850

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1500

Place

Italy

Summary

Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from opening rubric (f. 1r): Qui comenza lo libro chiamato leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile pieno de moralita Iesus Cristus.
   
• Many stains and smudges. Slight wormhole damage, obliterating a few words of text on the first few folios. Edges starting to fray and tear in a few places. Binding and cover in good condition.
   
• This text, with contemporary foliation 1-33, is missing its final leaf and was once followed by a treatise on the cardinal virtues based on Valerius Maximus and others, foliated 35-67, now the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Marston 43 (Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick).
   

Extent

33 leaves : 285 x 197 (208 x 115) mm. bound to 293 x 201 mm

Collation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 33 + i (modern paper); 1¹²(+1), 2⁵, 3⁵; 1-33; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half vellum.

Layout

Written in 46 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.

Decoration

Contains 46 large decorated initials throughout, in a variety of colors; decorated with complicated interlacings of serrated branchwork with cone-like fruit; two of the initials have a small coat of arms in the center (f. 1r, 15v); headings to the prologue and the various sections written in red, purple and green; capitals touched with yellow.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices
• Compendiums
• Translations

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italy
• Paper
• Philosophy
• Italian

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 3r
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Zoomorphic initial, Initial C, Dragons, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 5v
• fol. 5v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 6r
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 6v
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Zoomorphic initial, Initial S, Dragons, f. 8r
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial F, 10r
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 12v
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 13v
• fol. 13v — Decorated catchword, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial, Initial G, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 16v
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 20r
• fol. 20r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 20r
• fol. 20v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 20v
• fol. 20v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 20v
• fol. 21r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 21r
• fol. 22r — Zoomorphic initial, Initial S, Dragons, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 22v
• fol. 23v — Decorated catchword, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 24r
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 24v
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 26r
• fol. 28r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 28r
• fol. 29v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 29v
• fol. 30v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 30v
• fol. 32r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 32r
• fol. 33v — Decorated catchword[?], f. 33v