University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 760
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1658
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 760
- Title:
- Ethica Nicomachea.
- Aristotle
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [14--]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 120 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 262 x 190 (165 x 104) mm bound to 273 x 197 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hodson, Laurence W., 1864-1933
Dunn, George, 1864-1912
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Decoration: 5-line ornamented initial in red and black ink (f. 1r); 4-line illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink, and green, with interlaced ornamentation (for example, f. 84v).
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Contemporary tooled morocco.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a humanistic script.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Caption title (f. 1r): Leonardi Aretini in libros ethicorum proemium.
Incipit (f. 1r): Aristotelis ethicorum libros latinos facere nuper institui.
Incipit (f. 5r): Omnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem & actus & electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in drypoint; some prickings visible.
Foliation: Parchment, 120; [1-2], 3-120; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink, in upper right recto.
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 16239 (note, inside upper cover); George Dunn (bookplate, inside upper cover); Laurence W. Hodson (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Ernst Schulte Strathaus, 1950. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874953503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3g73751h/manifest
- Holding Institution:
