Accession number
PML 145558
Creator
Plato.
Published
Venetiis : In aedib. Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense septembri M.D.XIII [1513]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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, 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.
Marginalia and textual corrections in at least two contemporary hands.
Library's copy lacks blank leaf ii4.
Includes index in Greek.
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, 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.
Marginalia and textual corrections in at least two contemporary hands.
Library's copy lacks blank leaf ii4.
Includes index in Greek.
Description
2 v. in 1 ([32], 502, [2]; 439, [1] p.) ; 31 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
J.T. Foster (red stamp on t.p.: stag above name); Alfred Henry Huth (bookplate); Albert May Todd (bookplate); Karl Kalbfleisch (bookplate); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Panelled brown morocco, gold- and blind-tooled, by F. Bedford.
Classification
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