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[Moral and medical miscellany].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 479
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Virtues--Early works to 1800.
- Virtues.
- Vices--Early works to 1800.
- Vices.
- Hygiene--Early works to 1800.
- Hygiene.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- anthologies
- fragments (object portions)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Swann Galleries, 22 Mar. 1990, lot 126.
- Appears in Sam Fogg's cat. 15 (1992), no. 10, and cat. 16 (1995), no. 65.
- Appears in Bruce Ferrini's Bulletin 4 (1998), no. 51.
- Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 2000, lot 53; 6 Dec. 2001, lot 51.
- Appears in Maggs' cat. 1320 (2002), no. 2.
- Formerly owned by R. O. Lenkiewicz, London.
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 Dec. 2003, lot 70, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 18 leaves : parchment ; 225 x 150 (147 x 100) mm bound to 230 x 155 mm
- Production:
- [Italy], [after 1323]
- Language Note:
- Italian, with one section in Latin (f. 18v).
- Summary:
- Leaves from a variety of works, mostly concerned with virtues and vices, previously part of a larger miscellany. Leaves from the same work are often not sequential and are not necessarily bound in order. Most of the volume consists of leaves from the early 14th-century Fiore di virtù (f. 1r-7r), including the end of the text, and a treatise on the cardinal virtues elsewhere titled Expositione sopra le quatro virtudi extracte del Maximo Valerio e d'altri decti de filosofi (f. 8v-16v), again including the end of the text. Bolognese physician Taddeo Alderotti's Libello per conservare sanita del corpo (a brief work on personal health and hygiene), an excerpt from Alderotti's translation of the Secretum secretorum (parole tracte de Regimine principum), and the beginning of the entry on the life of Christ from Robert Grosseteste's translation of the Suda lexicon are also present.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-7r: Fiore di virtù [fragments]
- 2. f.7r-8r: Libello per conservare sanita del corpo / Thadeo da fiorença, doctore in medicina in bologna.
- 3. f.8v-16v: [Expositione sopra le quatro virtudi extracte del Maximo Valerio e d'altri decti de filosofi, fragments]
- 4. f.16v-18v: Parole tracte de Regimine principum / [Taddeo Alderotti, translator]
- 5. f.18v: [Fragment of the life of Christ from the Suda lexicon / Robert Grosseteste, translator]
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern) + 18 + ii (modern); 1-2⁴ 3¹⁰; 11-12, 19-20, 22, 24, 27, 29, 42-50, early foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-18], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. One example of a catchword (f. 4v), not followed by the corresponding gathering.
- Layout: Written in 2 columns of 37 lines; ruling in faint ink or lead visible on some leaves, with vertical bounding lines.
- Script: Written in Gothic script.
- Decoration: 3-line initials alternating between red with pink penwork and blue with red penwork (2 initials cut out, f. 7r, 8v) ; red paragraph marks.
- Binding: Modern white parchment over pasteboards.
- Origin: Written in Italy, probably Tuscany, after 1323.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 89 (LJS 479).
- Cited as:
- LJS 479
- Contains:
- Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295. Libello per conservare la sanita del corpo.
- Secretum secretorum. Italian. Selections.
- Fiore di virtù.
- Expositione sopra le quatro virtudi extracte del Maximo Valerio e d'altri decti de filosofi.
- OCLC:
- 827541859
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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