Details

Subjects:

Education -- Early works to 1800.
Education.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Contents:

1. f.1r-33v: De ingenuis moribus / Pietro Paolo Vergerio.
2. f.33v-48r: De legendis antiquorum libris / St. Basil of Caesarea, translated by Leonardo Bruni.
3. f.48r-61r: [De studiis et letteris] / Leonardo Bruni.
4. f.62r-77v: Isagogicon moralis disciplinae / Leonardo Bruni.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title and attribution for item 1 in a different hand from text (f. 1r).
Item 2 heading (f. 33v): Leonardi Aretini prefatio in libro Basilii Magni Greci incipit feliciter.
Item 3 heading (f. 48r, later addition): Leonardus Aretinus illustri D.D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.
Item 4 heading (f. 62r): Prestantissimi viri Leonardi Aretini Isagogicon moralis disciplinae galeotum ricasolanum feliciter incipit, f. 62r, in a different hand from the text.
Foliation: Paper; i (modern paper) + 77 + i (modern paper); [1-77]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines (Items 1-3) and 27 long lines (Item 4); ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in 2 humanistic hands, items 1-3 in first hand; item 4 in a second hand, with headings and marginal notations in several later hands, in Latin and Italian.
Decoration: Illuminated initials in red, green, blue, pink and gold (f. 1r, 33v, 62r); initials in red or blue.
Binding: Green vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500. Leaf with date 1466 (f. 48r) is a later replacement.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 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. 8 (Ms. Latin 34).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 685

Contains:

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. De legendis antiquorum libris.
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. Isagogicon moralis disciplinae.
Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444. De ingenuis moribus.
De studiis et litteris illustri D. D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.

OCLC:

155985398