Accession number
PML 21964
Creator
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Object title
Proemio primo di Marsilio Ficino florentino Della christiana religione : achi secondo lareligione christiana uuole uiuere ...
Published
Inpresso inpisa : p[er] Ser lorenzo e Ser agnolo fiorentini, delmese digiungno: adi .II. M.CCCC.LXXXIII. [2 June 1484]
Description
[114] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from caption to the prologue, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf q2r, which reads in full: "Finito ellibro della christiana religione colle nuoue additioni e agiunta conpilate e agiunte pel sopradeto famosissimo philosopo platonicho Marsilio ficino fiorentino Inpresso inpisa p[er] Ser lorenzo e Ser agnolo fiorentini delmese digiungno: adi .II. M.CCCC.LXXXIII."
Printed in Lorenzo and Angelo de Firenze's type 1:111R.
Signatures: [1]²; a-i⁸ l-o⁸ p⁶ q²: 114 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
The author's Italian version of his De Christiana religione, first printed in 1474; the Latin version, by the title of which the work is generally cited, was first printed in 1476. Bod-inc notes: "See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, p. lix, no. b 2, and p. lxxviii; a revised and augmented edition ... [the] additions [referred to in the colophon] do not appear in any Latin redaction of the text."
Table of contents on leaves [1]/1v-2r (1r and 2v blank).
1 column, 31 lines (172 x 104 mm). Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy with leaf q1 bound before p1.
Imprint from colophon, leaf q2r, which reads in full: "Finito ellibro della christiana religione colle nuoue additioni e agiunta conpilate e agiunte pel sopradeto famosissimo philosopo platonicho Marsilio ficino fiorentino Inpresso inpisa p[er] Ser lorenzo e Ser agnolo fiorentini delmese digiungno: adi .II. M.CCCC.LXXXIII."
Printed in Lorenzo and Angelo de Firenze's type 1:111R.
Signatures: [1]²; a-i⁸ l-o⁸ p⁶ q²: 114 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
The author's Italian version of his De Christiana religione, first printed in 1474; the Latin version, by the title of which the work is generally cited, was first printed in 1476. Bod-inc notes: "See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, p. lix, no. b 2, and p. lxxviii; a revised and augmented edition ... [the] additions [referred to in the colophon] do not appear in any Latin redaction of the text."
Table of contents on leaves [1]/1v-2r (1r and 2v blank).
1 column, 31 lines (172 x 104 mm). Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy with leaf q1 bound before p1.
Binding
Laced limp vellum (reused from a larger former 17th-century blind-tooled binding) with fore-edge (Yapp) extensions (28 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant title
Della christiana religione
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Feb. 1923.
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