Details

Standardized Title:

Secretum secretorum. Selections.

Subjects:

Education of princes -- Early works to 1800.
Education of princes.
Kings and rulers -- Duties -- Early works to 1800.
Kings and rulers -- Duties.
Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Political ethics.
Friendship -- Early works to 1800.
Friendship.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
commentaries.
Poetry.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Excerpt on matters of health from the 12th-century Latin translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the Secretum secretorum, attributed to Aristotle, as presented by (and including the introduction from) the 13th-century Dominican Thomas de Cantimpré in his De naturis rerum, 1.77 (identified by Scherazade Khan, University of Pennsylvania). The excerpt here is abridged from Thomas de Cantimpré's version and has an unidentified commentary. Followed by a poem of 215 lines on friendship attributed to Cicero, perhaps based on Cicero's De amicitia. A recipe in German for a laxative added by another hand (f. 1r).

Contents:

1. f.2r-17r: De regimine principium.
2. f.17v-20v: Liber de vera amicitia.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title for predominant work (f. 2r).
f.2r-17r: [prologue] Ordo vivendi phisice secundum Aristotelem ... [text] Cum sit corpus corruptibile eique accidat ... [commentary] Iste liber principali sua divisione dividitur in duas partes ... [f. 17r: text] Invenere mensuram excedere et cogitationes pessimas ac tristes habere haec omnia debilitant corpus et exsistant. [commentary] Alia autem sunt ex phi[sica?] in tuenda. [explicit] Explicit modus vivendi phisice secundum Aristotele editus per Johannem Hisponiensem de observacione diete et corporis ex tractus a quodam libro de arabico qui latine liber dicitur Secreta secretorum.
Collation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 20 + ii (modern paper); 1¹² 2⁸; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: First work written in 13 long lines for text, commentary also in long lines in the text block but with approximately three lines of commentary to one line of text; second work written in 29-34 lines of verse, with headings in the margin.
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Decoration: Rubricated caption titles, a few simple initials, capital strokes, underlining, explicit of first work and headings in margin in second work.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1960.

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. 38 (Ms. Latin 163).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 917

Contributor:

Joannes, Hispalensis, active 12th century.
Aristotle.

Contains:

Thomas, ǂc de Cantimpré, ǂd approximately 1200-approximately 1270. ǂt De natura rerum. Selections.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia.
De vera amicitia.

OCLC:

155930653

Web link:

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