University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 941

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1737

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 941

Title:

Dits moraux des philosophes ; Les commandemens de Seneque.

Author:

Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, active 11th century

Al-Mubashshir ibn Fātik WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 100 leaves : parchment ; 251 x 177 (175 x 115) mm bound to 262 x 189 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title from 18th-century note (flyleaf v verso).
Binding: 19th-century stamped calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Decoration: 4-line initials in blue and gold with red and blue filigree (f. 1r, 3r); paragraph marks and subsequent 2-line initials alternate between gold with blue filigree and blue with red filigree.
Foliation: Parchment, v (modern paper) + 100 + iii (modern paper); 1-100; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 29 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in bâtarde script.
Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1959.
According to the 18th-century note (flyleaf v verso), signed "Muraire," the volume was sold "chez le Duc de la Valliere" in 1788 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Keyword:

maxims

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

aphorisms

Cardinal virtues

Philosophy

Early works

Philosophy--Quotations, maxims, etc--Early works to 1800

Hermetic philosophers

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935776063503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3901zh2f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania