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Title

De educatione liberorum et eorum claris morbis

Authors

• Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 7-1458

Call number

Ms. Codex 748
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615244
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487572

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1443

Place

Rome

Summary

Duties of parents and teachers in the education of the young citing the Church fathers and classical authors; section beginning f. 81r is addressed to adolescents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit: Si tantum nobis ingenii esset ut quod impresentia aggredimur recte consummateque perficere possemus (f. 1r).
   

Extent

139 leaves : 203 x 140 (123 x 74) mm. bound to 208 x 142 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (18th-century paper) + 139 + i (18th-century paper); [1-139]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; f. 77-80 [between books 3 and 4] are blank.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century French calf.

Layout

Written in 32-33 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

6-line initial with red and blue penwork and faded coat of arms (f. 1r); 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-line initials in red or blue; manicules (for example, f. 12r); marginal faces (f. 12v, 17v, 25r, and 132v); sprinkled edges.

Script

Written in a humanistic hand, with marginal annotations in other hands, including a northern European hand.

Colophon

Colophon: finit. Romae apud Sanctum Petrum nono Kalendis Januarii millesimo CCCC XLiiii. Finis (f. 138v) [Rome, 24 December 1443].

Provenance

• Purchased, 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Education--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Paper
• Italian
• Italy

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated illustration, Coat of arms, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Manicule, f. 2r
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — Manicule, f. 9r
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Manicule, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Drawing, Face, f. 12v
• fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Manicule, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — Manicule, f. 14r
• fol. 17v — Drawing, Face, f. 17v
• fol. 20v — Manicule, f. 20v
• fol. 23r — Manicule, f. 23r
• fol. 25r — Drawing, Face, f. 25r
• fol. 26v — Manicule, f. 26v
• fol. 28v — Manicule, f. 28v
• fol. 29v — Manicule, f. 29v
• fol. 32r — Manicule, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Manicule, f. 32v
• fol. 67v — Manicule, f. 67v
• fol. 71r — Manicule, f. 71r
• fol. 72r — Manicule, f. 72r
• fol. 92v — Manicule, f. 92v
• fol. 93v — Manicule, f. 93v
• fol. 96r — Manicule, f. 96r
• fol. 104r — Manicule, f. 104r
• fol. 105v — Manicule, f. 105v
• fol. 117r — Manicule, f. 117r
• fol. 117v — Manicule, f. 117v
• fol. 118v — Manicule, f. 118v
• fol. 119r — Manicule, f. 119r
• fol. 126v — Manicule, f. 126v
• fol. 132r — Drawing, Face, f. 132r
• fol. 132v — Drawing, Face, f. 132v
• fol. 132v — Manicule, f. 132v
• fol. 133r — Manicule, f. 133r
• fol. 135v — Manicule, f. 135v