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

Title

Commentary on the Ethica Nicomachea

Other related names

• Beer, John T, former owner
• Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 767
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615204
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487531

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1400

Place

Italy

Summary

Anonymous commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, with table of contents (f. 106r-109v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit: Sicut dicit philosophus natura humana multipliciter est ancilla.
   
• Outer conjugate leaves of each signature are parchment.
   

Extent

109 leaves : 218 x 141 (170 x 100) mm. bound to 228 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper and parchment; iii (modern paper) + 109 + iii (modern paper); 1-105, [106-109]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on last leaf of each quire, lower center verso.

Support

Paper and parchment

Binding

Modern morocco.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

3-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); red or blue initials, rubricated headings, capitals and paragraph markers throughout.

Script

Written in a Gothic script, with marginal notes in several additional hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John T. Beer (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Appears in Jacques Rosenthal's catalog 83 (1925), no. 12.
   
• Sold by E. Rosenthal, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 106r — Table of contents, f. 106r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 19v — Manicule, f. 19v
• fol. 20v — Manicule, f. 20v
• fol. 36v — Decorated catchword, f. 36v
• fol. 56r — Diagram, f. 56r
• fol. 66v — Manicule, f. 66v
• fol. 67v — Manicule, f. 67v
• fol. 91v — Manicule, f. 91v