Details

Subjects:

Misogyny -- Early works to 1800.
Christian women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Christian women -- Conduct of life.
Misogyny.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Three moral or spiritual works: a misogynist alphabet consisting largely of quotations from classical authors and from the Bible; a collection of excerpts from Aristotle's Magna moralia and Ethica Eudemia with extensive marginal commentary; and a work on the Penitential Psalms attributed to Petrarch.

Contents:

1. f.2r-6v: Alphabetum malarum mulierum.
2. f.7r-10r: De bona fortuna, interprete Bartholomeo de Messana.
3. f.11r-14r: Laureati poete domini Francisca Petrarca septem psalmi penitentiales.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title of 1st work from explicit (f. 6v); title of 2nd work from Zacour-Hirsch; title of 3rd work from caption title (f. 11r).
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 14 + i (modern paper); [1-14]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 28-33 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in Gothic rotunda script by multiple hands.
Decoration: 1st work has 24 blue initials flourished with red and red and blue paragraph marks (f. 2r-6v); 2nd work is rubricated and has red and blue paragraph marks (f. 7r-10r); 3rd works is rubricated and has 1-line red initials throughout (f. 11r-14r).
Binding: Modern paper-covered boards; formerly bound in red leather until at least 1905 (Mazzi).
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold at Puttick and Simpson (London), 27 June 1890 (note pasted inside former front cover, described by Mazzi, 1905).
Formerly owned by Leo S. Olschki (Florence).
Formerly owned by Ernst Schultze (librarian and sociologist, Munich).
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.

Cited in:

Described in Mazzi, C. "Un codicetto in parte petrarchescho." In La Bibliofilia: rivista dell' arte antica in libri, stampe, manoscritti, autografi e legature 6 (1904-1905), p. 327-331.
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 43).
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 M1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 762

Contributor:

Bartolomeo da Messina, active 13th century.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, attributed name.
Olschki, Leo S. (Leo Samuel), 1861-1940, former owner.
Schultze, Ernst, 1874-1943, former owner.

Contains:

Aristotle. Magna moralia. Latin
Aristotle. Eudemian ethics. Latin
De bona fortuna.
Septem psalmi penitentiales.

OCLC:

155985465