TY - BOOK ID - 77937653 TI - The Vatican manuscript of Spinoza's Ethica AU - Spruit, Leen AU - Totaro, Pina AU - Spinoza, Benedictus de PY - 2011 SN - 1283514621 9786613827074 9004210571 9789004210578 9789004209268 9004209263 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Ethics. KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Spinoza, Benedictus de, KW - Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. KW - Ethics KW - Spinoza, Benedictus de, - 1632-1677. - Ethica KW - Spinoza, Baruch, 1632-1677 KW - Spinoza, Benedictus de. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937653 AB - Brill authors Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro discovered the original manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica" in the Vatican library. This spectacular discovery attracted a lot of media attention. NRC Handelsblad , 26th May 2011 Radio 1 News , 27th May 2011 NOS News , 27th May 2011 The Vatican codex, which contains the complete text of Spinoza’s Ethics , is the only surviving manuscript of this work and constitutes a document of great importance. On 23 September 1677, it was handed over to the Roman Holy Office by Spinoza’s former friend Niels Stensen who had converted to Catholicism in 1667. Thus, it predates the publication of the Opera Posthuma , which is dated 1677, but which did not in fact appear until the first months of 1678. Recent research and fresh documentation allow us to determine the several stages of the manuscript’s life before it reached Rome, where it was kept in the Archive of the Holy Office, and subsequently, transferred to the Vatican Apostolic Library, in 1922. ER -