Accession number:
PML 1483
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, mense Septembri 1497.
Description:
[186] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes:
Titles from contents list (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf &8v).
Printed in Aldus's type 2:114R.
Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁴ L-M⁶ N-O⁸ p-q⁸ R-Z⁸ &¹⁰: 186 leaves, leaf &10 blank.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Translated by Marsilio Ficino.
For variants see CIBN + Add.
Guide letters.
Registrum (leaf &9r).
On the probably erroneous attribution of Alcinous, Epitome to Albinus (cf. GW), see Alcinoos, Enseignement des doctrines de Platon, ed. John Whittaker (Paris, 1990) (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21 cm. (trimmed).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: &10 (blank).
Binding:
19th-century gilt-tooled hard-grained, green morocco over paper boards (33 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedown and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Payne & Foss for 5.5.0 (rear fly leaf), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), bibliographical note, 1834 (front fly leaf recto) and shelf mark: I5 (front fly leaf verso); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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