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Title

Tractatus moralis de virtutibus (Moral Tract on the Virtues)

Authors

• Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89634472)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 167
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 147

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England?
France?

Summary

This manuscript contains a late fourteenth-century copy of the treatise Tractatus moralis de virtutibus (Moral Tract on the Virtues).

Extent

Ii+230+ii; 152 x 104 mm bound to 164 x 110 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; numbering (in a later hand) extant lower corner recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Pages have been cut; some evidence of numbering in the center of the lower margin verso, but no catchwords extant

Binding

English brown calf, circa 1830, blind tooled with gothic design on the sides, half red morocco case

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of forty lines; pricking extant; written area: 112 x 104 mm

Decoration

Eight-line puzzle initial with pen flourishing in red and blue (fol. 1r); two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue; rubrication throughout; some marginalia

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Fifteenth-century marginal note in French (fol. 58); No. 12 in a modern English bookseller's cat. (£ 4.15.00); (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 14th century
• English
• Gothic
• Puzzle initial
• England
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tractatus moralis de virtutibus (Moral Tract on the Virtues)

Decorations

• fol. 58v — Marginal note, French, 15th c. hand: "faulte d'argent douleur non pareille mais argent prent villes et chasteaux."
• fol. 214v — Marginal notation
• fol. 218r — Marginal notation
• fol. 218v — Marginalia
• Inside back cover — Catalog entry