Alphabetum malarum mulierum ... [etc.].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Bartolomeo da Messina, active 13th century
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, attributed name.
• Olschki, Leo S. (Leo Samuel), 1861-1940, former owner.
• Schultze, Ernst, 1874-1943, former owner.

Language:

• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Misogyny--Early works to 1800.
• Christian women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
• Ethics--Early works to 1800.
• Ethics.
• Christian women--Conduct of life.
• Misogyny.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold at Puttick and Simpson (London), 27 June 1890 (note pasted inside former front cover, described by Mazzi, 1905).
• Formerly owned by Leo S. Olschki (Florence).
• Formerly owned by Ernst Schultze (librarian and sociologist, Munich).
• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.

Physical Description:

14 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 185 x 133 (127 x 83) mm bound to 193 x 135 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [14--]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Three moral or spiritual works: a misogynist alphabet consisting largely of quotations from classical authors and from the Bible; a collection of excerpts from Aristotle's Magna moralia and Ethica Eudemia with extensive marginal commentary; and a work on the Penitential Psalms attributed to Petrarch.

Contents:

• 1. f.2r-6v: Alphabetum malarum mulierum.
• 2. f.7r-10r: De bona fortuna, interprete Bartholomeo de Messana.
• 3. f.11r-14r: Laureati poete domini Francisca Petrarca septem psalmi penitentiales.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title of 1st work from explicit (f. 6v); title of 2nd work from Zacour-Hirsch; title of 3rd work from caption title (f. 11r).
• Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 14 + i (modern paper); [1-14]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Layout: Written in 28-33 long lines; ruled in lead.
• Script: Written in Gothic rotunda script by multiple hands.
• Decoration: 1st work has 24 blue initials flourished with red and red and blue paragraph marks (f. 2r-6v); 2nd work is rubricated and has red and blue paragraph marks (f. 7r-10r); 3rd works is rubricated and has 1-line red initials throughout (f. 11r-14r).
• Binding: Modern paper-covered boards; formerly bound in red leather until at least 1905 (Mazzi).
• Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

• Described in Mazzi, C. "Un codicetto in parte petrarchescho." In La Bibliofilia: rivista dell' arte antica in libri, stampe, manoscritti, autografi e legature 6 (1904-1905), p. 327-331.
• 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 43).
• 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 M1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 762

Contains:

• Aristotle. Magna moralia. Latin
• Aristotle. Eudemian ethics. Latin
• De bona fortuna.
• Septem psalmi penitentiales.

OCLC:

155985465