Accession number:
MS M.918
Title:
Commentarium in Platonis Convivium de amore
Created:
Florence, Italy, between 1460 and 1470.
Binding:
Original Florentine binding of red goatskin, richly decorated in blind and with copper-stamped roundels, brass catches, remains of green silk clasps (brass portions missing); two inscriptions on the upper cover that have been attributed to Ficino.
Credit:
Purchase; with income from the Lathrop Colgate Harper Trust Fund; 1964.
Description:
110 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 210 x 140 mm.
Provenance:
Old shelfmark 108 in brown ink on front pastedown and remnants of a label with this number on the upper spine; Laurence Witten, New Haven, Connecticut (catalogue 5, item 20).
Notes:
Ms. written and decorated in Florence, Italy, between 1460 and 1470.
Some of the Greek passages and some of the corrections have been said to be in Ficino's hand; later annotations in Latin (in pencil) can be found on many folios--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page with illuminated initial and border decorated in white vine, a green wreath in the center of bas-de-page decoration, with no arms executed within.
Variant Title:
Commentarium in convivium Platonis de amore
Script:
humanistic cursive
Language:
Latin with some Greek
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