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Historia moral y philosophica : en que se tratan las vidas de doze philosophos, y principes antiguos, y sus sentencias, y hazañas, y las virtudes moralmente buenas que tuuieron; y se condenan los vicios de que fueron notados : apurando lo bueno, y desechando lo malo que tuuieron; sacando de todo ello medulla y substancia de lo mejor y mas prouechoso, y moralizandolo, para vtilidad de nuestras costumbres, y vida Christiana : y en el vltimo lugar, y fin de la obra, se trata la vida de la muerte, que es el fin y remate delas cosas humanas, con algunas consideraciones prouechosas para la buena vida / compuesta por el Maestro Pero Sanchez ...

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio 868 Sa526H
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sánchez, Pedro, active 16th century.
Language:
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Philosophers, Ancient--Biography--Early works to 1800.
Philosophers, Ancient.
Kings and rulers, Ancient--Biography--Early works to 1800.
Kings and rulers, Ancient.
Philosophers, Ancient--Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Crawford, James Pyle Wickersham, 1882-1939 (donor)
Crawford, May Wickersham (donor)
Physical Description:
10 unnumbered leaves, 372 leaves, 7 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm (folio)
Place of Publication:
Impresso en Toledo : En casa de la biuda de Iuan de la Plaça, año 1590.
Contents:
Pt. 1: Aristoteles. Platon. Demostenes. Ciceron
pt. 2: Caton Vticense. Las Sibilas. Alexandro Magno. Iulio Cesar
pt. 3: Pompeyo Magno. Romulo y Remo. Sanson. La muerte.
Notes:
Signatures: [maltese cross]¹⁰ A-2Z⁸ 3A⁴ [par.]⁸ (-[par.]8, blank?)
Title within architectural woodcut border; woodcut illustrations, initials, tail- and head-pieces.
Printed in double columns.
With side- and shoulder-notes.
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Ms. note on title leaf.
Imperfect: leaves 197-202 (2B5-2C2), 209 (2D1) and [6]-[8] ([par.]6-8) at end, wanting.
Imperfect: leaf 203 (2C3) mutilated, half leaf wanting.
Cited in:
Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 294393
OCLC:
11589733

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