La moral filosophia del Doni, tratta da gli antichi scrittori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century.

Contributor:

Doni, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574.

Marcolini, Francesco, approximately 1500-approximately 1559, printer.

Accademia dei pellegrini.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Directorium humanae vitae. Italian

Language:

Arabic

Italian

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Convento di San Francesco (Ceneda, Italy) (former owner) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Zorzi, Bartolomeo (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (8 unnumbered pages, 152; 103 pages, 9 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Moral filosophia

Fingerprint:

r-te lito aai- ciGi (3) 1552 (R) v.1

doli e-co e-ar tepa (3) 1552 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Per Francesco Marcolini, MDLII [1552]

Contents:

v. 1. Libro Primo Della Moralità De Sapienti Antichi Composto Dal Gran Filosopho Sendebar.

Libro Secondo [-Terzo] Della Filosophia De Sapienti Antichi ... Scritto Da Sendebar ... In Vinegia, Nell'Academia Peregrina. ; v. 2. Trattati Diversi Di Sendebar ... Allo ... S. Cosimo De Medici Dedicati. In Vinegia, Nell'Academia Peregrina.

Sommario de i presenti libri (p. [105-112].)

Notes:

Illustrations: Woodcuts, comprising 8 large (4 on the title pages) including printer's devices, Medici arms and ports. of Marcolini and Aretino; 36 small in the text; and numerous decorative initials and head and tailpieces. The small cuts, excepting some used also by Doni, are repeated from Marcolini's Le sorti, 1540 and 1550; perhaps designed or engraved by Marcolini or G. Porta Salviati. Cf. Casali, 54.

Signatures: v.1 A-V⁴ ; v.2 a-o⁴.

Device of A.F. Doni (Zappella 448) on p. 65; variant device (Zappella 449) on p. 121; another device (Zappella 1191) at end of vol. 2.

The whole is a translation by members of the Academia dei Pellegrini from Giovanni da Capua's Latin version of Bīdpāʼī's fables, and edited by A. F. Doni.

Woodcut initials; head-and tail pieces.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in a portion of a parchment leaf from a liturgical ms., probably an antiphonary, containing text and music for the first words of the antiphon for the first psalm sung at vespers on the vigil of the solemnity of the Ascension; written in a Gothic bookhand; text and neumes in dark (now brown?) ink; rubrics and 4-line staves in red; one large floriate initial U in green, yellow and purple(?) on front cover.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription of the Convento di San Francesco di Ceneda ("Spectat ad Biblio[thecam] S. Francisci P.P. Reformat[orum] Cenet[ae]") on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Donum D. Bartholom[a]ei Zorzi de Ampitio", probably belonging to Bartolomeo Zorzi d'Ampezzo, on title page.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 17694

OCLC:

43054306