Ethica ad Nicomachum

Description

Title: Ethica ad Nicomachum
Creator: Aristotle
Contributor: Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
Published / Created: [ca. 1350]
Publication Place: France (Paris?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Aristoteles, Ethica ad Nicomachum, in the Latin translation attributed to Robert Grosseteste
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by two scribes employing differing forms of Gothica textualis, the first having written the first quire, the second the remainder of the codex.
Headlines throughout in alternating red and blue capitals, chapter numbers in margins also in alternating colors, and large capitals at beginnings of books and chapters of the text in red or blue, with extensive filiform decoration bordering the left margin in the contrasting color on leaves with such capitals, all the work of a rubricator, performed separately from the writing of the text. Book and chapter headings in red by the scribes throughout.
Binding: Modern European parchment-covered boards, backstrip calligraphically lettered in gothic script with the author's name and title.
Provenance: Mellon MS 143, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven, 1957. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. i + 86 + i : 270 x 185 (167 x 110) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Aristotle.
Subject (Topic): Ethics, Ancient
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Aristotle
Ethics, Ancient
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

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Citation: Aristoteles, Ethica ad Nicomachum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.