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Title

Liber ethicorum Aristotelis

Authors

• Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295

Call number

Ms. Codex 273
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924864513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597203
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486451

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

before 1356

Place

Italy

Summary

Compendium of Aristotle's Ethics (both the Nicomachean and the Eudemian, or Great Ethics), followed by a list of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire (f. 66r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from closing rubric (f. 66r).
   
• Heading on f. 1r: Comincia il libro primo dell'Etica da Aristotile nel quale tratta della felicitade.
   
• Incipit: Ogne arte et ogne doctrina et ogne operatione et ogne electione ... (f. 1r).
   
• Generally in good condition. Some stains and smudges on the leaves. Ink faded on some folios. Outer hinges of cover starting to crack.
   

Extent

71 leaves : 213 x 142 (123 x 92) mm. bound to 218 x 145 mm

Collation

Parchment, 71; 1, [i]², 1⁸( -1), 2-8⁸, 9⁶( -1); [ii, 1-69]; modern foliation, upper right recto. The first leaf is the front endleaf and is conjugate with the front pastedown. The back pastedown is numbered f. 70.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Blind-stamped dark brown morocco, probably Florentine, ca. 1450 (perhaps contemporary with the replaced f. 1); gilt rondels and clasps missing.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.

Decoration

7-line decorated initial in red and blue (f. 1r); rubricated headings; red and blue used for highlights, initials.

Script

Written in a large gotica cancelleresca script in a single hand, except for the first leaf, which was lost or mutilated at an early date and was replaced about 1450 by another leaf written in a rather rough hand (f. 1).

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800
• Electors (Kurfürsten)

Genres

• Codices
• Compendiums
• Translations
• Manuscripts, Italian--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Compendium
• 14th century
• Italian
• Italy

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 1r