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Ethica secondo la dottrina d'Aristotile : a lo illustrissimo reverendissimo Don Hippolito da Este, secondo cardinale di Fèrrara / di Gabriel Cesano.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 469
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Penn Provenance:
  • Formerly owned by Giovanni Baldovinetti (Gino Corti).
Physical Description:
317 leaves : paper ; 215 x 155 (152 x 122) mm bound to 227 x 157 mm
Production:
[Saluzzo?], [1560?]
Language Note:
Italian, with a few words in Greek.
Biography/History:
Secretary to Ippolito de Medici, canon of the cathedral of Pisa, protege of Catherine de Medici, and bishop of Saluzzo (Memorie istoriche de piu uomini illustri pisani, v. 4 (1792), pp. 383-403).
Summary:
A work on ethics, divided into four books, that closely follows the work of Aristotle. Dedicated to Ippolito d'Este, cardinal of Ferrara.
Contents:
  • 1. f.1r-55r: De la felicità humana.
  • 2. f.59r-153v: Divisione e dichiaratione de le virtu morali.
  • 3. f.155r-268r: La forteza et de suoi estremi.
  • 4. f.271r-316r: La giustitia et ingiustitia universale.
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from caption title (f. 2r).
  • Incipit: La felicità e l'ultima fine... (f. 2r).
  • Foliation: Paper, 317; [1-317]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
  • Layout: Written in 16-17 long lines.
  • Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
  • Binding: Modern vellum.
  • Origin: Written in Saluzzo[?], ca. 1560.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 12 (Ms. Italian 246).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 469
OCLC:
155964739

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