Disciplinaru[m] platonis epitoma.

Accession number:

PML 171

Author:

Albinus.

Published:

[Nuremberg] : [Anton Koberger], 24 November 1472.

Description:

[24] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁴]: 24 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [3]/4 blank. See GW for explanation of collation.
Colophon (leaf [3]/3r): Epitoma Alcinoi in disciplinaru[m] Platonis desinit. Anno salutis .M.CCCC.lxxii. die vero .xxiiii. mensis Nove[m]bris.
Formerly ascribed erroneously to Alcinous (R. E. Witt, Albinus and the history of middle Platonism, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1937).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.3 x 17 cm
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Alcinoi disciplinaru[m] platonis epitoma. id est. breviariu[m] incipit.
Translated by Petrus Balbus.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown blind-stamped goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (27 x 18 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves

Variant Title:

Disciplinarum platonis epitome

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated red (and 2 blue) paragraph marks and red capital strokes; decorated initials (leaf [1]/2r), one green with filigree penwork and the second blue on a gold ground with foliate extension. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) with bibliographic description by Sydney Cockerell tipped-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 152, 8/5/96 and price code wo/-/- +com (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Rubrics

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Century:

20th century

Department:

Printed Books