[Extract from Secretum secretorum].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Secretum secretorum.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Alexander.

Education of princes--Early works to 1800.

Education of princes.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Charles W. Burr.

Physical Description:

20 leaves : paper ; 216 x 140 (143 x 77) mm bound to 223 x 155 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [1450-1499]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

A portion of a work purporting to be a letter of advice from Aristotle to Alexander the Great.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 20 + i (modern paper); [1-20]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Decoration: Large red initials with green ornamentation, ff. 1r and 1v. Red used for capital strokes and underlining.

Binding: Modern boards.

Origin: Written in Germany, 1450-1499 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Wide margins at outer and lower edges of pages with some contemporary marginal notes.

Text from Secretum secretorum begins on f. 3v: "Allexander cu[m] sit co[r]p[us] cor[r]uptibile..."

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 22 (Ms. Latin 101).

Riley, Lyman W. Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library (Philadelphia, 1961), item M7A.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 864

OCLC:

155918937