Details

Standardized Title:

Nicomachean ethics. Latin

Subjects:

Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, translated from the Greek by Leonardo Bruni Aretino with the translator's introduction and dedication.

Contents:

1. f.1r-4r: Introduction.
2. f.4v-5r: Dedication.
3. f.5r-120v: Nicomachean ethics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Caption title (f. 1r): Leonardi Aretini in libros ethicorum proemium.
Incipit (f. 1r): Aristotelis ethicorum libros latinos facere nuper institui.
Incipit (f. 5r): Omnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem & actus & electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur.
Foliation: Parchment, 120; [1-2], 3-120; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink, in upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in drypoint; some prickings visible.
Script: Written in a humanistic script.
Decoration: 5-line ornamented initial in red and black ink (f. 1r); 4-line illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink, and green, with interlaced ornamentation (for example, f. 84v).
Binding: Contemporary tooled morocco.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 16239 (note, inside upper cover); George Dunn (bookplate, inside upper cover); Laurence W. Hodson (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Ernst Schulte Strathaus, 1950.

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. 4 (Ms. Latin 15).
Riley, Lyman W. "Aristotle Texts and Commentaries to 1700 in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Part V." Library Chronicle 24 (1958), 86-98. This manuscript is listed in the section: "Manuscripts (Catalogued by Norman P. Zacour)," p. 94 (item M3).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 760

Contributor:

Hodson, Laurence W., 1864-1933, former owner.
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444, translator.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner.

OCLC:

155985441