University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 243

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1461

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 243

Title:

Leticha /

Author:

Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295

Taddeo Alderotti WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1500?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 33 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 285 x 197 (208 x 115) mm bound to 293 x 201 mm

Former Owner(s):

Burr, Charles W. 1861-1944

Charles Burr WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 33 + i (modern paper); 1¹²(+1), 2⁵, 3⁵; 1-33; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Many stains and smudges. Slight wormhole damage, obliterating a few words of text on the first few folios. Edges starting to fray and tear in a few places. Binding and cover in good condition.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r): Qui comenza lo libro chiamato leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile pieno de moralita Iesus Cristus.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 46 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Contains 46 large decorated initials throughout, in a variety of colors; decorated with complicated interlacings of serrated branchwork with cone-like fruit; two of the initials have a small coat of arms in the center (f. 1r, 15v); headings to the prologue and the various sections written in red, purple and green; capitals touched with yellow.
Binding: Modern half vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
This text, with contemporary foliation 1-33, is missing its final leaf and was once followed by a treatise on the cardinal virtues based on Valerius Maximus and others, foliated 35-67, now the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Marston 43 (Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick).
Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

compendiums

Manuscripts, Italian

translations (documents)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Aristotle

Ethics

Criticism and interpretation

Early works

Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808503503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32g0f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania