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[Duo dialogi de philosophia morali].

Author/Creator:
Decembrius, Umbertus.
Publication:
[Italy], [1450?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
64 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 143 (126 x 94) mm bound to 203 x 139 mm
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Subjects:
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Dialogues on ethics between Ubertus and Andreas.
Contents:
1. f.1r-3r: Proemium.
2. f.3r-32v: Dialogus primus.
3. f.32v-63v: Dialogus secundus.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Veritas vim sepenumero cogitanti nichil ea plerumque facilius... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 64 + i (contemporary paper); [iii], [1-64], [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r, 32v); 2-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 3r); alternating red or blue paragraph marks throughout.
Binding: 16th-century green vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in northern Italy[?], ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Note in second hand: Questo libro sia dato ad nostro patre domino Facino de Sanctopetro in Portanova ne la perochia de Sancto Victore...(f. 64v).
Penn Provenance:
Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 1 (1954), no. 33.
Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 1954.
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. 10 (Ms. Latin 40).
For Umbertus Decembrius see P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum (Leyden, 1963), p. 312, 328.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 693
OCLC:
155985415