Details

Subjects:

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian, with a few words in Greek.

Biography/History:

Secretary to Ippolito de Medici, canon of the cathedral of Pisa, protege of Catherine de Medici, and bishop of Saluzzo (Memorie istoriche de piu uomini illustri pisani, v. 4 (1792), pp. 383-403).

Summary:

A work on ethics, divided into four books, that closely follows the work of Aristotle. Dedicated to Ippolito d'Este, cardinal of Ferrara.

Contents:

1. f.1r-55r: De la felicità humana.
2. f.59r-153v: Divisione e dichiaratione de le virtu morali.
3. f.155r-268r: La forteza et de suoi estremi.
4. f.271r-316r: La giustitia et ingiustitia universale.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 2r).
Incipit: La felicità e l'ultima fine... (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, 317; [1-317]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 16-17 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in Saluzzo[?], ca. 1560.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Giovanni Baldovinetti (Gino Corti).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 12 (Ms. Italian 246).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 469

Contributor:

Aristotle.
Este, Ippolito d', 1509-1572, dedicatee.
Baldovinetti, Giovanni, former owner.

OCLC:

155964739