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Libro di Marsilio Ficino Fiorentino Della Cristiana Religione ad Bernardo del Nero Clarissimo Cittadino Fiorentino.

Accession number
PML 397
Creator
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Object title

Libro di Marsilio Ficino Fiorentino Della Cristiana Religione ad Bernardo del Nero Clarissimo Cittadino Fiorentino.

Published

[Florence], [Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus], [1474 or early 1475]

Description

[114] leaves ; 30 cm. (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [2]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Laurentiis's type 4*:113R.
On the date, see GW and BMC (reprint) -- (ISTC).
Checklist has pub. date: "[1476]."
Collation: [1²; 2-3¹⁰ 4-10⁸ 11⁴ 12-15⁸]: 114 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Initial spaces, without printed guide letters.
Chapter list, leaves [1]/1r-2r.
Preface dedicates the Italian (Tuscan) translating to Bernardo del Nero. The Latin was dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici.
Binding
18th-century(?) Italian laced parchment over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Della cristiana religione
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: One blue initial (leaf [2]/1r), the remainder unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title on fore-edge, faded.
Provenance
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel and price code: rm/- 2/3 (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: o/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department