[Duo dialogi de philosophia morali].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Decembrius, Umbertus.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

dialogues

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 1 (1954), no. 33.

Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 1954.

Physical Description:

64 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 143 (126 x 94) mm bound to 203 x 139 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [1450?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Dialogues on ethics between Ubertus and Andreas.

Contents:

1. f.1r-3r: Proemium.

2. f.3r-32v: Dialogus primus.

3. f.32v-63v: Dialogus secundus.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Incipit: Veritas vim sepenumero cogitanti nichil ea plerumque facilius... (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 64 + i (contemporary paper); [iii], [1-64], [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r, 32v); 2-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 3r); alternating red or blue paragraph marks throughout.

Binding: 16th-century green vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in northern Italy[?], ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Note in second hand: Questo libro sia dato ad nostro patre domino Facino de Sanctopetro in Portanova ne la perochia de Sancto Victore...(f. 64v).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 40).

For Umbertus Decembrius see P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum (Leyden, 1963), p. 312, 328.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 693

OCLC:

155985415