Phaedon
- Title
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Phaedon
- LC Subject
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Immortality--Early works to 1800
Philosophy, Ancient
- Item Locator
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Eugene, OR, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, MS 013.
- Repository
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University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Alternative
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Spine title: Phaedon e vers
- Author
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Plato
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Description
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Manuscript codex.
This translation is by humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni. Probably made from a manuscript brought to Italy by Chrysoloras.
Collation: Small folio in quires I-II__, III__.
Decoration: 2 initials in red with very fine blue tracery, and in blue with red tracery. f1r [initial large majuscule red 'Q']UI LAUDANT SACTITUTEM TUAM/ bearissime pater opus certe bonum ac pium agere/ pergunt. [TRANSLATION] THOSE WHO PRAISE YOUR HOLINESS, most blessed father, certainly continue to drive the good and pious work. f1r [Superscript marginal addendum in cursive hand] Platonis Phaedon, sive de animo in Leonardo Arentino (latine redditum) f1v [Initial Blue 'I'] PSE affuisti o Pheton ea die qua Socrates venenum bibit in carcere. An ab alio quodam audivisti. [TRANSLATION] Oh Phaeton, were you yourself present on this day when Socrates drinks poison in prison, or did you hear from someone else?
Binding: Contemporary binding of gray linen with olive morocco back with title in gilt: PHAEDON E VERS. LEON ARENTI.
Script: upright humanistic Roman hand with much abbreviation.
- Provenance
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Donation/Purchase; Julia Burgess, 1935-1942.
- Date
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1401/1500
- Identifier
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MS_013
- Item Locator
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MS 013
- Rights
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No Copyright - United States
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Use Restrictions
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Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections & University Archives.
- Language
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Latin
- Type
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Text
- Format
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application/pdf
- Set
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University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Layout
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Single column measuring 161 x 105mm, in 30 lines (5mm).