Philosophia moralis.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Ethics--Early works to 1800.
• Ethics.

Genre:

• Codices.
• Treatises.
• Manuscripts, Latin.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Signed "Evrard Bavacensus 1780" (p. 318).
• Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books, 2005.

Physical Description:

217 leaves : paper ; 183 x 114 mm bound to 187 x 128 mm

Production:

[France?], 1780.

Other Title:

Ethica regia

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Treatise on ethics arranged in four parts addressing the external principles, internal principles, rules, and morality of human actions. The fourth part includes a discussion of economics and politics as well as virtues and vices. A table of contents in the same hand follows the work.

Contents:

Pages 1-318: "[prologue] Ea philosophiae pars quae boni persequendi et mali fugiendi certa et iniussa tradit philosophia ... [p. 6: text] Dicturi de singulis acturum humanorum ... [p. 318] ... in omnibus operibus tuis memorare novissima tua et in aeternum, o periebis."

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from part headings (p. 6, 36, 117, 168).
• Pagination: Paper, 217; ii, 1-39, 39-40, 40-41, 41-42, 42-216, 216, 216-217, 217, 217-251, 253-321, ii; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
• Layout: Written in 20-22 long lines, not ruled.
• Binding: Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (Rubin).
• Origin: Written in northern France in 1780.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1027

OCLC:

155928714