Ms. Codex 917 De regimine principium ... etc.
Title
De regimine principium ... etc.Authors
- Joannes, Hispalensis, 12th cent
- Aristotle
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Call number
Ms. Codex 917(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9942192753503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84698442
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4219275
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
LatinOrigin
Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Date
- 14--
- Place
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Germany
Summary
Excerpt on the power of princes from the Latin translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the Secretum secretorum, attributed to Aristotle, with an unidentified commentary, followed by a poem of 215 lines on friendship attributed to Cicero, perhaps based on Cicero's De amicitia. A recipe in German for a laxative added by another hand (f. 1r).
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption title for predominant work (f. 2r).
- f.2r-17r: [prologue] Ordo vivendi phisice secundum Aristotelem ... [text] Cum sit corpus corruptibile eique accidat ... [commentary] Iste liber principali sua divisione dividitur in duas partes ... [f. 17r: text] Invenere mensuram excedere et cogitationes pessimas ac tristes habere haec omnia debilitant corpus et exsistant. [commentary] Alia autem sunt ex phi[sica?] in tuenda. [explicit] Explicit modus vivendi phisice secundum Aristotele editus per Johannem Hisponiensem de observacione diete et corporis ex tractus a quodam libro de arabico qui latine liber dicitur Secreta secretorum.
Extent
20 leaves : 217 x 151 (148 x 100, 180 x 115) mm. bound to 222 x 159 mmCollation
Paper, iii (modern paper) + 20 + ii (modern paper); 1¹² 2⁸; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.Support
PaperBinding
Modern boards.Layout
Decoration
Rubricated caption titles, a few simple initials, capital strokes, underlining, explicit of first work and headings in margin in second work.
Script
Provenance
- Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1960.
Subjects topical
- Education of princes--Early works to 1800
- Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800
- Political ethics--Early works to 1800
- Friendship--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Codices
- Commentaries
- Poems
- Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
Keywords
- 15th century
- Commentary
- Literature -- Poetry
- Paper
- Germany
- German
- Philosophy
Licenses
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Images
Inside front cover0408_0001.tif (33.4 MB)
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Decoration: Recipe, f. 1r
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Section: De regimine principium, f. 2r
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Section: Liber de vera amicitia, f. 17v
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