Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics.
Support: paper; Extent: 33 leaves : 285 x 197 (208 x 115) mm bound to 293 x 201 mm; 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.
Written in 46 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
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.
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Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r): Qui comenza lo libro chiamato leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile pieno de moralita Iesus Cristus.
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).
Italy
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).
Modern half parchment.
Italian
Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Italy
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).
Italian
Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938
Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics.
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r): Qui comenza lo libro chiamato leticha del magnio filosefo Aristotile pieno de moralita Iesus Cristus.
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).
Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
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.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
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