Details

Subjects:

Education -- Early works to 1800.
Education.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Duties of parents and teachers in the education of the young citing the Church fathers and classical authors; section beginning f. 81r is addressed to adolescents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Si tantum nobis ingenii esset ut quod impresentia aggredimur recte consummateque perficere possemus (f. 1r).
Colophon: finit. Romae apud Sanctum Petrum nono Kalendis Januarii millesimo CCCC XLiiii. Finis (f. 138v) [Rome, 24 December 1443].
Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century paper) + 139 + i (18th-century paper); [1-139]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; f. 77-80 [between books 3 and 4] are blank.
Layout: Written in 32-33 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a humanistic hand, with marginal annotations in other hands, including a northern European hand.
Decoration: 6-line initial with red and blue penwork and faded coat of arms (f. 1r); 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-line initials in red or blue; manicules (for example, f. 12r); marginal faces (f. 12v, 17v, 25r, and 132v); sprinkled edges.
Binding: 18th-century French calf.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1958.

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. 26 (Ms. Latin 117).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 748.

OCLC:

155985542

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