Leticha

Name:

Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1450

Description:

Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Gift of Charles W. Burr, 1938 (bookplate, inside upper cover).; Burr, Charles W. 1861-1944, former owner.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/96/

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Renaissance; codices (bound manuscripts); compendiums; translations (documents); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

33 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 285 x 197 (208 x 115) mm bound to 293 x 201 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 243