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

Title

Other related names

• Burr, Charles W. 1861-1944, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122542114
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178055

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1450-1499

Place

Germany

Summary

A portion of a work purporting to be a letter of advice from Aristotle to Alexander the Great.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
   
• Wide margins at outer and lower edges of pages with some contemporary marginal notes.
   
• Text from Secretum secretorum begins on f. 3v: "Allexander cu[m] sit co[r]p[us] cor[r]uptibile..."
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Decoration

Large red initials with green ornamentation, ff. 1r and 1v. Red used for capital strokes and underlining.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Charles W. Burr.
   

Subjects topical

• Education of princes--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Paper
• Germany

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 864: Extract from Secretum secretorum are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, f. 1v