[Ethica Nicomachea].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Hodson, Laurence W., 1864-1933, former owner.

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444, translator.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Nicomachean ethics. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 16239 (note, inside upper cover); George Dunn (bookplate, inside upper cover); Laurence W. Hodson (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Sold by Ernst Schulte Strathaus, 1950.

Physical Description:

120 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 262 x 190 (165 x 104) mm bound to 273 x 197 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [14--]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, translated from the Greek by Leonardo Bruni Aretino with the translator's introduction and dedication. The original first two leaves are missing and the text was later replaced on an added bifolium (f. 1-2).

Contents:

1. f.1r-4r: Introduction.

2. f.4v-5r: Dedication.

3. f.5r-120v: Nicomachean ethics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Caption title (f. 1r): Leonardi Aretini in libros ethicorum proemium.

Incipit (f. 1r): Aristotelis ethicorum libros latinos facere nuper institui.

Incipit (f. 5r): Omnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem & actus & electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur.

Collation: Parchment, 120; 1¹⁰⁻²⁺² (-1, -2, +1, +2) 2-12¹⁰; original f. 1 and f. 2 missing, replaced by a bifolium added inside the stub of the original f. 1; [1-2], 3-120; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink, in upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in drypoint; some prickings visible.

Script: Written in a humanistic script.

Decoration: 5-line ornamented initial in red and black ink (f. 1r); 4-line illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink, and green, with interlaced ornamentation (for example, f. 84v).

Binding: Contemporary tooled morocco.

Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, p. 314 (16239).

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. 4 (Ms. Latin 15).

Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Part V." Library Chronicle 24 (1958), 86-98. This manuscript is listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 94 (item M3).

Cited as:

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (Ms. Codex 760). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155985441

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