[Dits moraux des philosophes] ; Les commandemens de Seneque.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, active 11th century.

Contributor:

Guillaume, de Tignonville, -1414, translator.

Courtecuisse, Jean, -1423, translator.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., attributed name.

Standardized Title:

Dicta philosophorum. French

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Hermetic philosophers.

Philosophy--Quotations, maxims, etc--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Cardinal virtues--Early works to 1800.

Cardinal virtues.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

aphorisms

maxims

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

According to the 18th-century note (flyleaf v verso), signed "Muraire," the volume was sold "chez le Duc de la Valliere" in 1788 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1959.

Physical Description:

100 leaves : parchment ; 251 x 177 (175 x 115) mm bound to 262 x 189 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [14--]

Language Note:

Middle French.

Summary:

French translation by Guillaume de Tignonville of the Latin translation of an 11th-century Arabic work containing aphorisms or maxims from genuine or spurious works of 22 philosophers and poets, including Hermetic maxims, followed by Jean Courtecuisse's French translation of a Latin work on the cardinal virtues by Martin of Braga but attributed to Seneca, printed in 1491.

Contents:

1. f.1r-93v: [Dits moraux des philosophes]

2. f.93v-100r: Les commandemens de Seneque.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from 18th-century note (flyleaf v verso).

Foliation: Parchment, v (modern paper) + 100 + iii (modern paper); 1-100; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 29 lines; ruled in lead.

Script: Written in bâtarde script.

Decoration: 4-line initials in blue and gold with red and blue filigree (f. 1r, 3r); paragraph marks and subsequent 2-line initials alternate between gold with blue filigree and blue with red filigree.

Binding: 19th-century stamped calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

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

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. 60 (Ms. French 33).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 941

Contains:

Martin, of Braga, Saint, approximately 515-579 or 580. Formula vitae honestae.

Commandemens de Seneque.

OCLC:

155925553