Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Aristotle.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Penance -- Early works to 1800.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Early works to 1800.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Palestine -- Early works to 1800.
Indulgences -- Early works to 1800.
Indulgences.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Penance.
Criticism and interpretation.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices.
Compendiums.
Translations (documents)
Sonnets.
Poems.

Language:

Italian, in the Venetian dialect; list of indulgences in Latin (f. 56r-61v).

Summary:

13th-century Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, copied in the Venetian dialect in the 15th century by Chabriello Paradixo, on the ship of his patron, Ser Giovanni Amatti (f. 1r-50r), followed by two brief sermons or meditations concerning penance (f. 51r-55v); a brief poem, Sonetto dize el libro, in which the book addresses the reader (possibly Amatti) (f. 55v); and a list of indulgences granted to pilgrims visiting consecrated places in the Holy Land, mainly churches (f. 56r-61v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and name of scribe from colophon to the Aristotle text (f. 50r).
Incipit of Aristotle text: Ongni [sic] artti e ogni dottrina e ogni operattione e ogni ellettione pare adimandare alcuno bene ... (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 61 + i (modern paper); [1-61], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20-25 long lines.
Script: Written in a 15th-century Venetian cursive script, possibly in the single hand of Chabriello Paradixo (f. 50r).
Decoration: 4-line illuminated initial (f. 2r).
Binding: Modern paste paper boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, 17 June 1456, on the ship of Ser Giovanni Amatti, patron of the scribe Chabriello Paradixo (colophon, f. 50r).
Leaves stained around the edges, possibly from water. Other stains and smudges. One wormhole.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by C.A. Stonehill (New Haven, Conn.), 1951.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 94 (Ms. Italian 11).
Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library: A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts." Part V. Library Chronicle 24 (1958), 83-103. This manuscript listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 94 (item number M5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 253

Contributor:

Paradixo, Chabriello, scribe.

Contains:

Sonetto dize el libro.

OCLC:

155964179