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[Commentary on the Ethica Nicomachea].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 767
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Aristotle.
- Ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Ethics.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commentaries
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by John T. Beer (bookplate, inside upper cover).
- Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
- Appears in Jacques Rosenthal's catalog 83 (1925), no. 12.
- Sold by E. Rosenthal, 1953.
- Physical Description:
- 109 leaves : paper and parchment, color illustrations ; 218 x 141 (170 x 100) mm bound to 228 x 150 mm
- Production:
- [Italy], [1400?]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Anonymous commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, with table of contents (f. 106r-109v).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Incipit: Sicut dicit philosophus natura humana multipliciter est ancilla.
- Foliation: Paper and parchment; iii (modern paper) + 109 + iii (modern paper); 1-105, [106-109]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on last leaf of each quire, lower center verso.
- Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in lead.
- Script: Written in a Gothic script, with marginal notes in several additional hands.
- Decoration: 3-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); red or blue initials, rubricated headings, capitals and paragraph markers throughout.
- Binding: Modern morocco.
- Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1400 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Outer conjugate leaves of each signature are parchment.
- 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. 11 (Ms. Latin 50).
- 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. 95 (item M9).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 767
- OCLC:
- 155985485
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