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
- Date:
- 1400?
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- paper and parchment, color illustrations
- 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
Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Sicut dicit philosophus natura humana multipliciter est ancilla.
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.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1400 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Outer conjugate leaves of each signature are parchment.
Formerly owned by John T. Beer (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Appears in Jacques Rosenthal's catalog 83 (1925), no. 12.
Sold by E. Rosenthal, 1953. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924875313503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3h98zf1p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
