Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ethica Nicomachea

Authors

• Aristotle

Other related names

• Hodson, Laurence W, former owner
• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444, translator
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 760
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874953503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615174
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487495

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy

Summary

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, translated from the Greek by Leonardo Bruni Aretino with the translator's introduction and dedication.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Caption title (f. 1r): Leonardi Aretini in libros ethicorum proemium.
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Aristotelis ethicorum libros latinos facere nuper institui.
   
• Incipit (f. 5r): Omnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem & actus & electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur.
   

Extent

120 leaves : 262 x 190 (165 x 104) mm. bound to 273 x 197 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 120; [1-2], 3-120; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink, in upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary tooled morocco.

Layout

Written in 27 long lines; ruled in drypoint; some prickings visible.

Decoration

5-line ornamented initial in red and black ink (f. 1r); 4-line illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink, and green, with interlaced ornamentation (for example, f. 84v).

Script

Written in a humanistic script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 16239 (note, inside upper cover); George Dunn (bookplate, inside upper cover); Laurence W. Hodson (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Ernst Schulte Strathaus, 1950.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Philosophy
• Italian
• Italy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Introduction, f. 1r
• fol. 4v — Dedication, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Book 1, f. 5r
• fol. 16r — Book 2, f. 16r
• fol. 24v — Book 3, f. 24v
• fol. 37v — Book 4, f. 37v
• fol. 50r — Book 5, f. 50r
• fol. 62v — Book 6, f. 62v
• fol. 71v — Book 7, f. 71v
• fol. 84v — Book 8, f. 84v
• fol. 96r — Book 9, f. 96r
• fol. 107v — Book 10, f. 107v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Owner note, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 1r
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 5r
• fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 16r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 16r
• fol. 18r — Manicule, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Manicule, f. 18v
• fol. 24v — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 24v
• fol. 37v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 37v
• fol. 39r — Manicule, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Manicule, f. 39v
• fol. 43r — Manicule, f. 43r
• fol. 47v — Manicule, f. 47v
• fol. 49v — Drawing, Face, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 50r
• fol. 55v — Manicule, f. 55v
• fol. 62v — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 62v
• fol. 64r — Manicule, f. 64r
• fol. 71v — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 71v
• fol. 84v — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 84v
• fol. 87r — Drawing, Face, f. 87r
• fol. 87v — Manicule, f. 87v
• fol. 91v — Manicule, f. 91v
• fol. 96r — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 96r
• fol. 101v — Drawing, Face, f. 101v
• fol. 107v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 107v