Accession number
PML 21972-73
Creator
Plato.
Object title
Prohemium Marsilii Ficini flore[n]tini in libros Platonis ad Laurentium Medicem Virum Magnanimum.
Published
Impressum Florentie : Per Laurentiu[m] Venetu[m], [1484-1485]
Description
[212, 220, 134] leaves ; 28 cm (folio)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from caption at beginning of Marsilius's preface on Part I, leaf [1]/2v.
Place and name of printer from colophons on Part II, leaves d4v and ss10v.
Printed in de Alopa's types 1:85G, 3:83G, 2:90R, and 4:115R.
In two parts, printed: I) [May 1484]; II) [before April 1485], see BMC citing Ripoli Press day-book.
Signatures, Part I: [1]⁸; a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d-f⁶ g⁸ h¹⁰ i-z⁸ et⁸ co[n]⁸ ru[m]⁶: 212 leaves. Leaves [1]/8, a1 and ru[m]6 blank.
Signatures, Part II: a-c⁸ d⁴ e-i⁸ l-y⁸ ç¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]⁸ [rum]⁶ ²et⁸ ²co[n]⁴ ²ru[m]⁶; aa-bb⁸ cc-hh⁶ ii⁴ ll⁶ mm-rr⁸ ss¹⁰ p[er]⁸ [2]⁶: 220 and 134 leaves, leaf ç10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated from Greek into Latin with commentary by Marsilius Ficinus.
Text in two columns.
Spaces left blank for initials, some with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20.9 cm.
PML copy with half-leaf inserted at leaf a9v with manuscript text missing between leaves a9v-10r.
PML copy with part I, quire [1] bound at end of vol. I, and Timaeus (part II, quires [et]-²ru[m]) bound in vol. I after part I, Gorgias (leaf [rum]6).
Place and name of printer from colophons on Part II, leaves d4v and ss10v.
Printed in de Alopa's types 1:85G, 3:83G, 2:90R, and 4:115R.
In two parts, printed: I) [May 1484]; II) [before April 1485], see BMC citing Ripoli Press day-book.
Signatures, Part I: [1]⁸; a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d-f⁶ g⁸ h¹⁰ i-z⁸ et⁸ co[n]⁸ ru[m]⁶: 212 leaves. Leaves [1]/8, a1 and ru[m]6 blank.
Signatures, Part II: a-c⁸ d⁴ e-i⁸ l-y⁸ ç¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]⁸ [rum]⁶ ²et⁸ ²co[n]⁴ ²ru[m]⁶; aa-bb⁸ cc-hh⁶ ii⁴ ll⁶ mm-rr⁸ ss¹⁰ p[er]⁸ [2]⁶: 220 and 134 leaves, leaf ç10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated from Greek into Latin with commentary by Marsilius Ficinus.
Text in two columns.
Spaces left blank for initials, some with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20.9 cm.
PML copy with half-leaf inserted at leaf a9v with manuscript text missing between leaves a9v-10r.
PML copy with part I, quire [1] bound at end of vol. I, and Timaeus (part II, quires [et]-²ru[m]) bound in vol. I after part I, Gorgias (leaf [rum]6).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled brown German calf over wooden boards (28.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 and 4 supports by the Augustinner I bindery in Nuremberg (active ca. 1467-1510, EBDB w000089/Kyriss 19); edges repaired. Manuscript waste quire guards. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain leather endbands. 2 clasps, missing. Vellum title label on top boards, with brass frame (partially missing on vol. I); vol. II with shelf mark "99" in red.
Variant title
Opera
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes and brackets sporadically completed, generally on leaves with marginal notations; part II mostly unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary notations sporadically throughout part I, minimal in part II. Many printed signatures corrected in contemporary hand.
Provenance
Unidentified monogram ink stamp: A in cartouche (leaves part I: "a1"r, [1]/7v and part II: a1r, ss10v); unidentified shelf mark: Auct. Gr. 936 (vol. I, front pastedown); Ellis, Nov. 1866, unidentified purchase inscription, annotated by Dunn (not his purchase) with price code: [delta gamma omega] (vol. I, front pastedown); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (vol. I, front pastedown), notes and price code: [chi phi], purchased Feb. 1903 (vol. I, front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1486, to Maggs for £11.15.0; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1923.
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