[Duo dialogi de philosophia morali]

Name:

Decembrius, Umbertus

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1450

Description:

Dialogues on ethics between Ubertus and Andreas.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 1 (1954), no. 33.; Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 1954.

Subject:

Ethics -- Early works to 1800; Ethics

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Dialogues; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

64 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 200 x 143 (126 x 94) mm bound to 203 x 139 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-3r: Proemium. -- 2. f.3r-32v: Dialogus primus. -- 3. f.32v-63v: Dialogus secundus.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Incipit: Veritas vim sepenumero cogitanti nichil ea plerumque facilius... (f. 1r).; Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 64 + i (contemporary paper); [iii], [1-64], [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in drypoint.; Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.; Decoration: 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r, 32v); 2-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 3r); alternating red or blue paragraph marks throughout.; Binding: 16th-century green vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in northern Italy[?], ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Note in second hand: Questo libro sia dato ad nostro patre domino Facino de Sanctopetro in Portanova ne la perochia de Sancto Victore...(f. 64v).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 693