University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 767

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1665

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 767

Title:

Commentary on the Ethica Nicomachea.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1400?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 109 leaves : paper and parchment, color illustrations ; 218 x 141 (170 x 100) mm bound to 228 x 150 mm

Former Owner(s):

Beer, John T. approximately 1826-1903

John Thomas Beer WIKIDATA

Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914

Hermann Suchier WIKIDATA

Note:

Incipit: Sicut dicit philosophus natura humana multipliciter est ancilla.
Outer conjugate leaves of each signature are parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1400 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper and parchment; iii (modern paper) + 109 + iii (modern paper); 1-105, [106-109]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on last leaf of each quire, lower center verso.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic script, with marginal notes in several additional hands.
Decoration: 3-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); red or blue initials, rubricated headings, capitals and paragraph markers throughout.
Binding: Modern morocco.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Appears in Jacques Rosenthal's catalog 83 (1925), no. 12.
Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by E. Rosenthal, 1953.
Formerly owned by John T. Beer (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Ethics

Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875313503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3h98zf1p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania