[Duo dialogi de philosophia morali]
- Description
- Dialogues on ethics between Ubertus and Andreas.
- Creator
- Decembrius, Umbertus
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Latin
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1450
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Ethics -- Early works to 1800
- Ethics
- Extent
- 64 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 143 (126 x 94) mm bound to 203 x 139 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Table of contents: 1. f.1r-3r: Proemium. -- 2. f.3r-32v: Dialogus primus. -- 3. f.32v-63v: Dialogus secundus.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Incipit: Veritas vim sepenumero cogitanti nichil ea plerumque facilius... (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 64 + i (contemporary paper); [iii], [1-64], [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
- Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.
- Decoration: 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r, 32v); 2-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 3r); alternating red or blue paragraph marks throughout.
- Binding: 16th-century green vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Origin: Written in northern Italy[?], ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Note in second hand: Questo libro sia dato ad nostro patre domino Facino de Sanctopetro in Portanova ne la perochia de Sancto Victore...(f. 64v).
- Latin.
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 693
- Provenance
- Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 1 (1954), no. 33.
- Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 1954.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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