University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 917

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1721

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 917

Title:

De regimine principium ... etc..

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 20 leaves : paper ; 217 x 151 (148 x 100, 180 x 115) mm bound to 222 x 159 mm

Note:

Title from caption title for predominant work (f. 2r).
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Modern boards.
Decoration: Rubricated caption titles, a few simple initials, capital strokes, underlining, explicit of first work and headings in margin in second work.
f.2r-17r: [prologue] Ordo vivendi phisice secundum Aristotelem ... [text] Cum sit corpus corruptibile eique accidat ... [commentary] Iste liber principali sua divisione dividitur in duas partes ... [f. 17r: text] Invenere mensuram excedere et cogitationes pessimas ac tristes habere haec omnia debilitant corpus et exsistant. [commentary] Alia autem sunt ex phi[sica?] in tuenda. [explicit...
Collation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 20 + ii (modern paper); 1¹² 2⁸; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: First work written in 13 long lines for text, commentary also in long lines in the text block but with approximately three lines of commentary to one line of text; second work written in 29-34 lines of verse, with headings in the margin.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1960.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

Manuscripts, Latin

Kings and rulers--Duties

Education of princes

Political ethics

Early works

Friendship

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942192753503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37w6754g/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania