Accession number
MS M.918
Object title
Commentarium in Platonis Convivium de amore (MS M.918).
Display Date
between 1460 and 1470.
Created
Florence, Italy, between 1460 and 1470.
Binding
Original Florentine binding of red goatskin, richly decorated in blind and with copper-stamped roundels, brass catches, remains of green silk clasps (brass portions missing); two inscriptions on the upper cover that have been attributed to Ficino.
Credit line
Purchase; with income from the Lathrop Colgate Harper Trust Fund; 1964.
Description
110 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 210 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Old shelfmark 108 in brown ink on front pastedown and remnants of a label with this number on the upper spine; Laurence Witten, New Haven, Connecticut (catalogue 5, item 20).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in Florence, Italy, between 1460 and 1470.
Some of the Greek passages and some of the corrections have been said to be in Ficino's hand; later annotations in Latin (in pencil) can be found on many folios--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page with illuminated initial and border decorated in white vine, a green wreath in the center of bas-de-page decoration, with no arms executed within.
Some of the Greek passages and some of the corrections have been said to be in Ficino's hand; later annotations in Latin (in pencil) can be found on many folios--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page with illuminated initial and border decorated in white vine, a green wreath in the center of bas-de-page decoration, with no arms executed within.
Script
humanistic cursive
Language
Latin with some Greek
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