Leticha
- Description
- Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics.
- Creator
- Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- compendiums
- translations (documents)
- Date
- 1450
- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics Early works to 1800
- Aristotle Criticism and interpretation Early works to 1800
- Aristotle
- Ethics -- Early works to 1800
- Ethics
- Criticism and interpretation
- Extent
- 33 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 285 x 197 (208 x 115) mm bound to 293 x 201 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from opening rubric (f. 1r): Qui comenza lo libro chiamato leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile pieno de moralita Iesus Cristus.
- Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 33 + i (modern paper); 1¹²(+1), 2⁵, 3⁵; 1-33; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
- Layout: Written in 46 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
- Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
- Decoration: Contains 46 large decorated initials throughout, in a variety of colors; decorated with complicated interlacings of serrated branchwork with cone-like fruit; two of the initials have a small coat of arms in the center (f. 1r, 15v); headings to the prologue and the various sections written in red, purple and green; capitals touched with yellow.
- Binding: Modern half parchment.
- Origin: Written in northeastern Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Barbara A. Shailor, Yale University, based on another fragment from the same parent manuscript).
- Many stains and smudges. Slight wormhole damage, obliterating a few words of text on the first few folios. Edges starting to fray and tear in a few places. Binding and cover in good condition.
- This text, with contemporary foliation 1-33, is missing its final leaf and was once followed by a treatise on the cardinal virtues based on Valerius Maximus and others, foliated 35-67, now the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Marston 43 (Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick).
- Italian.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32g0f
- Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/96/
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 243
- Provenance
- Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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