[Ethica Nicomachea]
- Description
- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, translated from the Greek by Leonardo Bruni Aretino with the translator's introduction and dedication.
- Creator
- Aristotle
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 (translator)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Latin
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1400
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Ethics -- Early works to 1800
- Ethics
- Extent
- 120 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 262 x 190 (165 x 104) mm bound to 273 x 197 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Table of contents: 1. f.1r-4r: Introduction.
- Table of contents: 2. f.4v-5r: Dedication.
- Table of contents: 3. f.5r-120v: Nicomachean ethics.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Caption title (f. 1r): Leonardi Aretini in libros ethicorum proemium.
- Incipit (f. 1r): Aristotelis ethicorum libros latinos facere nuper institui.
- Incipit (f. 5r): Omnis ars omnisque doctrina similiter autem & actus & electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur.
- Foliation: Parchment, 120; [1-2], 3-120; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink, in upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in drypoint; some prickings visible.
- Script: Written in a humanistic script.
- Decoration: 5-line ornamented initial in red and black ink (f. 1r); 4-line illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink, and green, with interlaced ornamentation (for example, f. 84v).
- Binding: Contemporary tooled morocco.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Latin.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g73751h
- Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/61610
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 760
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 16239 (note, inside upper cover); George Dunn (bookplate, inside upper cover); Laurence W. Hodson (bookplate, inside upper cover).
- Sold by Ernst Schulte Strathaus, 1950.
- Hodson, Laurence W., 1864-1933, former owner.
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
- Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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