Nicomachean Ethics (fragment).

Description

Title: Nicomachean Ethics (fragment).
Creator: Aristotle
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450].
Publication Place: Spain
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni Aretino).
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in hybrida libraria with notarial influence.
Decoration: 8-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and purple; 3-line initials at the beginning of each capitulum alternate red and purple; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in same script as text; first line of each book written in larger minuscule; paragraph marks alternate red and purple; running headlines in red and purple; punctuated with the punctus and, for major pauses, the punctus versus; another hand in black ink made some corrections and added punctuation, including the punctus elevatus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Provenance: Fragments were used in the binding of another volume; fols. 1 and 3 were flyleaves and fols. 2 and 4 were pastedowns; five strips from an earlier manuscript, written in a thirteenth-century gothic hand, were wrapped around the spine of this volue and are partially preserved glues onto fols. 2 and 4.
Extent: ff. 1-4 : 158 x 99 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Spain 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Aristotle.
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Aristotle
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Spain > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.