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

Accession number:

PML 23297

Author:

Plotinus.

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:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books