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Title

Duo dialogi de philosophia morali

Authors

• Decembrius, Umbertus

Call number

Ms. Codex 693
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615157
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487483

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Place

Italy

Summary

Dialogues on ethics between Ubertus and Andreas.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit: Veritas vim sepenumero cogitanti nichil ea plerumque facilius... (f. 1r).
   
• Note in second hand: Questo libro sia dato ad nostro patre domino Facino de Sanctopetro in Portanova ne la perochia de Sancto Victore...(f. 64v).
   

Extent

64 leaves : 200 x 143 (126 x 94) mm. bound to 203 x 139 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 64 + i (contemporary paper); [iii], [1-64], [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

16th-century green vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 20 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r, 32v); 2-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 3r); alternating red or blue paragraph marks throughout.

Script

Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 1 (1954), no. 33.
   
• Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 1954.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Philosophy
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Proemium, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Dialogus primus, f. 3r
• fol. 32v — Dialogus secundus, f. 32v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 3r
• fol. 32v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 32v
• fol. 64v — Owner note, f. 64v