Manuscript Monday: LJS 25 – Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics

Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 25,  Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, written in Italy ca. 1275-1299, in Latin.

It contains Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, in the Latin translations by the Dominican William of Moerbeke from the Greek, followed by the first page of the Oeconomica, a work commonly attributed to Aristotle, in the Latin translation known as the translatio Durandi, attributed to Durand of Auvergne.

See the full online facsimile of this work in Penn in Hand.

 

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