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Prohemium Marsilii Ficini Florentini in Plotinum ad magnaninum Laurentium Medicem patriae seruatorem.

Accession number
PML 23297
Creator
Plotinus.
Object title

Prohemium Marsilii Ficini Florentini in Plotinum ad magnaninum Laurentium Medicem patriae seruatorem.

Published

[Florence, Italy] : Impressit ex archetypo Antonius Miscominus Florentiae, anno MCCCCLXXXXII nonis Maii [7 May 1492]

Description

[442] leaves ; 36 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2.
Imprint from colophon, leaf uu10r.
Printed in Miscomini's type 3:110/114R.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b⁸ c-n¹⁰ o¹² p-q¹⁰ r-z¹⁰ &¹⁰ aa-uu¹⁰ [x]²: 442 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated, with commentary, by Marsilius Ficinus.
"In some copies that has been added on a1 verso a title running: In hoc volume continentur libri Plotini LIIII cum commentariis Marsilii Ficini ...": BM 15th cent.
Register and printer's device at colophon, leaf uu10r.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Errata: leaves [x]1-[x]2.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.8 x 23.2 cm.
Binding
18th-century Italian gilt-tooled calf over paper boards (35.5 x 25 cm.), sewn on 5 supports, with gilt arms of Carafa on each board. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant title
Prohemivm Marsilii Ficini Florentini in Plotinvm ad magnaninvm Lavrentivm Medicem patriae servatorem
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: 15th-century reading notes (leaf a1r). No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Salomon Gessner (1730-1788), signature: "M. Salomo Gesnerus" (leaf a1r); Domenico Marzio Pacecco Carafa, 9th duca di Maddaloni (1706-1748), armorial binding; Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt, stamps (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Feb. 1926.
Classification
Century
Department