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Title

Liber ettichorum Aristottelis in vulgari

Authors

• Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295

Other related names

• Paradixo, Chabriello, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 253
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904404
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580861

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, in the Venetian dialect; list of indulgences in Latin (f. 56r-61v)

Origin

Date

1456

Place

Italy

Summary

13th-century Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, copied in the Venetian dialect in the 15th century by Chabriello Paradixo, on the ship of his patron, Ser Giovanni Amatti (f. 1r-50r), followed by two brief sermons or meditations concerning penance (f. 51r-55v); a brief poem, Sonetto dize el libro, in which the book addresses the reader (possibly Amatti) (f. 55v); and a list of indulgences granted to pilgrims visiting consecrated places in the Holy Land, mainly churches (f. 56r-61v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and name of scribe from colophon to the Aristotle text (f. 50r).
   
• Incipit of Aristotle text: Ongni [sic] artti e ogni dottrina e ogni operattione e ogni ellettione pare adimandare alcuno bene ... (f. 2r).
   
• Leaves stained around the edges, possibly from water. Other stains and smudges. One wormhole.
   

Extent

61 leaves : 206 x 138 (132 x 100) mm. bound to 211 x 140 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 61 + i (modern paper); [1-61], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paste paper boards.

Layout

Written in 20-25 long lines.

Decoration

4-line illuminated initial (f. 2r).

Script

Written in a 15th-century Venetian cursive script, possibly in the single hand of Chabriello Paradixo (f. 50r).

Provenance

• Sold by C.A. Stonehill (New Haven, Conn.), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Penance--Early works to 1800
• Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Early works to 1800
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Palestine--Early works to 1800
• Indulgences--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices
• Compendiums
• Translations
• Sonnets
• Poems

Keywords

• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper
• Christian
• Italy
• Italian
• Commentary
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ethics, f. 1r
• fol. 51r — Meditations on penance, f. 51r
• fol. 55v — Poem, f. 55v
• fol. 56r — List of indulgences, f. 56r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 2r