In libros magnorum moralium questiones selecte

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1675

Description:

Responses to 10 questions on happiness (beatitudo and felicitas), passions (passio), and prudence (prudentia) related to the Magna moralia, an epitome of Aristotelian ethical thought traditionally attributed to Aristotle.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Giovanni Battista Nigroni (binding with initials G B N).; Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 40.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Nigroni, Giovanni Battista, former owner.; Stanitz, John D., former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs209.html

Subject:

Aristotle. Magna moralia Early works to 1800; Aristotle Criticism and interpretation Early works to 1800; Aristotle; Philosophy -- Early works to 1800; Philosophy; Ethics -- Early works to 1800; Ethics; Criticism and interpretation

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

38 leaves : paper; 205 x 150 (156 x 106-110) mm bound to 209 x 157 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (p. 1).; Pagination: Paper, i + 38 + i leaves; [i-xx], 1-30, [31-56 (30-56 blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 28 long lines.; Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand, possibly Giovanni Battista Nigroni's, but probably not the same hand as LJS 208, also possibly Nigroni's.; Watermark: Includes a cross crosslet or budded cross enclosed in a circle topped with a crown (for example, f. 9-10 gutter); Binding: Contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment, gilt-tooled, with floral centerpiece and initials G B N (matches binding of LJS 208, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania); sprinkled edges.; Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Genoa, circa 1675 (if produced in the same place and close to the time of LJS 208, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 209

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)