Hapanta tà toû Plátōnos = Omnia Platonis opera.

Accession number: 
PML 1528
Author: 
Plato.
Published: 
Venetiis : In aedib. Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense septembri M.D.XIII [1513]
Description: 
2 v. in 1 ([32], 502, [2]; 439, [1] p.) ; 31 cm. (8vo)
Notes: 

Imprint from colophon.
Text in Greek, except for Aldus' dedication in Latin to Pope Leo X, which concerns evangelizing in America and publishing.
1st ed. in Greek, from manuscripts in Bessarion's collection (see Wolfenbüttel catalogue).
Edited by Musurus, with his Greek hymn to Plato.
Life of Plato from Diogenes Laertius.
Signatures: v. 1: pi²[conjugate pi2 bound after final leaf in signature 1] 1¹⁰ 2⁴[leaf 4 is blank] a-hh⁸ ii⁴[ii4 is blank]; v. 2: A-DD⁸ EE⁴.
Printer's device on t.p. and verso of colophon leaf.
Spaces with guide letters for capitals.
Greek title romanized.
Includes index in Greek.

Binding: 
Brown goatskin, gold-tooled in Greek style, provincial France, ca. 1520, with gilt and gauffered edges (see Fletcher); in a blue case.
Provenance: 
"Discalced" Augustinian convent in Paris (t.p. inscription); unidentified early cypher monogram in corners of binding; John Dent (sale notation); Richard Heber (inscription); Lord Gosford (signed "Acheson 1838"); James Toovey.
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