PLATO (427-347 B.C.) Opera . Translated from Greek into Latin, with commentary, by Marsilio Ficino. -- Marsilius FICINUS (1433-1499). Theologia Platonica de animorum immortalitate . Venice: Bernardinus de Choris de Cremona and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 13th August 1491. Super-chancery 2 o (314 x 217 mm). Collation : a 4 (1r verses in praise of Plato and Ficino by Naldus Nandius, title, 1v dedication to Lorenzo de Medici, 2r life of Plato by Ficino, 4v translator's acknowledgements, table of contents); 2 a-o 8 p-q 1 0 (Hipparchus-Gorgias); r-z 8 (Ficino's commentary on Plato's Convivium de amore , text Convivium-Menexenus); A-D 8 E-F 1 0 G-S 8 (De re publica-Epistolae); T-Z AA-FF 8 GG-HH 1 0 (Ficino's Theologia , HH8v colophon and register, HH9r chapter table of Theologia , HH10v blank). 448 leaves. Gothic types 9:130 (title Divus Plato ) and 8:74 (text), Roman types 2:83 (capitals only: dialogue protagonists), Greek type 80(74)mm (quotations). Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Worming at beginning and end affecting text, light marginal stain.) BINDING: contemporary South-German blind-stamped pigskin, over wooden boards, quadruple and triple fillets dividing the sides into different geometric compartments, containing lily, rosette, foliate, acorn and other stamps, chased brass center- and corner-pieces, clasps, manuscript title label on front cover, Buxheim shelf-mark in red on spine, (small wormholes). The tools apparently unrecorded. Provenance : Buxheim, Charterhouse (inscription, library stamp) -- ?Sigismund Staingl (1604 purchase inscription) -- Paul Schmidt (bookplate) -- Pierre Hollier Larousse (bookplate) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983. Second Latin edition of most of Plato's works (fourth appearance of the letters, third appearance of Gorgias , which had been published before separately in Aretino's translations). FIRST EDITION of Ficino's Theologia Platonica , second edition of his other writings in this collection. The first edition of Ficino's Plato had been published at Florence in 1484-85 by the Ripoli Press and Laurentius de Alopa for Francesco Berlinghieri and Filippo Valori. The German provenance of this copy shows that Christian interest in Plato was not limited to Italian humanists. UNPRESSED AND UNRESTORED. HC *13063, BMC V, 465; IGI 7861, Klebs 785.2; Goff P-772.
PLATO (427-347 B.C.) Opera . Translated from Greek into Latin, with commentary, by Marsilio Ficino. -- Marsilius FICINUS (1433-1499). Theologia Platonica de animorum immortalitate . Venice: Bernardinus de Choris de Cremona and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 13th August 1491. Super-chancery 2 o (314 x 217 mm). Collation : a 4 (1r verses in praise of Plato and Ficino by Naldus Nandius, title, 1v dedication to Lorenzo de Medici, 2r life of Plato by Ficino, 4v translator's acknowledgements, table of contents); 2 a-o 8 p-q 1 0 (Hipparchus-Gorgias); r-z 8 (Ficino's commentary on Plato's Convivium de amore , text Convivium-Menexenus); A-D 8 E-F 1 0 G-S 8 (De re publica-Epistolae); T-Z AA-FF 8 GG-HH 1 0 (Ficino's Theologia , HH8v colophon and register, HH9r chapter table of Theologia , HH10v blank). 448 leaves. Gothic types 9:130 (title Divus Plato ) and 8:74 (text), Roman types 2:83 (capitals only: dialogue protagonists), Greek type 80(74)mm (quotations). Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Worming at beginning and end affecting text, light marginal stain.) BINDING: contemporary South-German blind-stamped pigskin, over wooden boards, quadruple and triple fillets dividing the sides into different geometric compartments, containing lily, rosette, foliate, acorn and other stamps, chased brass center- and corner-pieces, clasps, manuscript title label on front cover, Buxheim shelf-mark in red on spine, (small wormholes). The tools apparently unrecorded. Provenance : Buxheim, Charterhouse (inscription, library stamp) -- ?Sigismund Staingl (1604 purchase inscription) -- Paul Schmidt (bookplate) -- Pierre Hollier Larousse (bookplate) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983. Second Latin edition of most of Plato's works (fourth appearance of the letters, third appearance of Gorgias , which had been published before separately in Aretino's translations). FIRST EDITION of Ficino's Theologia Platonica , second edition of his other writings in this collection. The first edition of Ficino's Plato had been published at Florence in 1484-85 by the Ripoli Press and Laurentius de Alopa for Francesco Berlinghieri and Filippo Valori. The German provenance of this copy shows that Christian interest in Plato was not limited to Italian humanists. UNPRESSED AND UNRESTORED. HC *13063, BMC V, 465; IGI 7861, Klebs 785.2; Goff P-772.
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