Collection ID: 0030 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De vita et moribus philosophorum

Authors

• Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?, attributed name (http://viaf.org/viaf/86734224)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

(SPC) MSS LT 055
(Philadelphia, United States, Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center)

Alternate identifiers

• https://temple-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01TULI_ALMA21293508150003811&context=L&vid=TULI&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US

Publisher

Special Collections Research Center

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Netherlands or Belgium?

Summary

This manuscript is a copy of De vita et moribus philosophorum, a collection of brief accounts of the lives and works of classical philosophers commonly attributed to the late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century English scholastic Walter Burley but more recently thought to have originated in northern Italy in the fourteenth century. This copy was probably written in the Low Countries in the second half of the fifteenth century. The text is in humanistic book script and is decorated quite simply with one illuminated initial at the beginning of the text and red initials marking philosophers' names. The seventh quire is missing; the eighth quire begins in the middle of the section about Seneca (fol. 57r). An index of philosopher names follows the text, including references to the missing quire.

Extent

I+60+i; 138 x 206 mm bound to 144 x 213 mm

Foliation

Foliated in ink, upper right recto; 1-48, 57-65, [i-iii]; both earlier foliation, which is sometimes affected by trimming, and later foliation are in roman numerals

Collation

1-6 (8), 7 (8, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8), 8 (8), 9 (4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal, in ink, with simple decorative marks, lower right last verso

Binding

Nineteenth-century English leather, blind-stamped; Walter Burley,Vitae, XV Saec. in gilt on spine; front joint broken (front cover still attached), back joint cracked

Layout

One column of thirty-two lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines; written area: 137 x 85 mm

Decoration

One five-line illuminated initial on gold ground with marginal extensions (fol. 1r); two-line initials in red in margins for the first letter of a philosopher's name throughout; rubrication for titles of Seneca's writings (fols. 57r-59r)

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Purchased by Temple University in 1957
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics -- Greece
• Philosophy, Ancient

Genres

• Codices

Keywords

• 15th century
• Netherlands
• Philosophy
• Illumination
• Dutch
• Belgium

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial D