Accession number
PML 23300
Creator
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Object title
Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum.
Published
Impressum Florentie : Per Antonium Miscominum, Anno Salutis .M.CCCCLXXXII. VII. Idus Nouembris [7 November 1482].
Description
[318] leaves ; 29 cm (fol. and 4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Title from caption title (leaf a1r): MARSILII FICINII FLORENTINI PLATONICA THEOLOGIA DE IMMORTALITATE ANIMORVM AD LAVRENTIVM MEDICEM. V. MANGANIMVM.
Imprint from colophon (leaf oo9v).
Printed in Miscomini's types 3:110/114R, 4:80R (as the signatures in quires a-g), with sporadic 7:80Gk.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a¹⁰ b-z & aa-nn⁸ oo¹⁰: 318 leaves, leaf [1]/9 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto half-sheets.
Space left for initials, with printed guide letters.
Chapter list, leaves [1]/1r-5r.
PML copy with quarto sheets: u4.5, all of quire x, y1.8, dd3.6, dd4.5, ee1.8, ee3.6, ff4.5, gg1.8, and gg2.7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 18.7 cm., trimmed; temoin (leaf ee4): 27.7 x 19.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf oo9v).
Printed in Miscomini's types 3:110/114R, 4:80R (as the signatures in quires a-g), with sporadic 7:80Gk.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a¹⁰ b-z & aa-nn⁸ oo¹⁰: 318 leaves, leaf [1]/9 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto half-sheets.
Space left for initials, with printed guide letters.
Chapter list, leaves [1]/1r-5r.
PML copy with quarto sheets: u4.5, all of quire x, y1.8, dd3.6, dd4.5, ee1.8, ee3.6, ff4.5, gg1.8, and gg2.7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 18.7 cm., trimmed; temoin (leaf ee4): 27.7 x 19.5 cm.
Binding
16th/17th-century Italian vellum over stiff paper boards (28 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Manuscript and printed waste used to reinforce binding structure.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 16th/17th-century foliation.
Provenance
Sargiano (Tuscany), Franciscans, inscription (abraded, visible under UV): "Pertinet ad locu[m] sargiani B. I. [abraded]," 16th century and shelf mark: "L no. 125:" (leaf [1]/1r); Michaele Aretino, inscription: "Ad usu[m] fr[atr]es Michaellis Aretini gile dedit in batist[a?...] de terra nova amore dei 1562 [abraded]" (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified shelf marks: "F. 57" and "Q.1.6_76." (front pastedown) and "N. 196" (spine); Gilhofer & Ranschburg, unidentified catalogue, no. 48; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Feb. 1926.
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