Bod-Inc: F-046
Ficinus, Marsilius
De christiana religione [Italian] Della cristiana religione.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Table of contents.]
[b1r] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prohemio'. Incipit: ‘[S]e lhumana generatione laquale puo collume dellintellecto comprehendere . . .’
[b3r] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prohemio secundo' [addressed to Laurentius de' Medici.] Incipit: ‘[L]etterna sapientia di dio ordino che emisterii diuini almeno . . .’
[b4v] Ficinus, Marsilius: Della cristiana religione. Incipit: ‘[L]experientia naturale ci mostra che tucte ledote delluomo excepta . . .’ See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, pp. lviii–lix, no. b 1, and 7-10; this translation is based on the first redaction of the text; the Latin edition above on the third.
Imprint
Imprint: [Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, before 25 Mar. 1475]. 4°.
Remarks: A. della Torre, Storia dell'Accademia Platonica di Firenze (Florence, 1902), 602, note 2, records a copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence (Inc. Magl.B.7.23), with a manuscript note of purchase in 1474; see also Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, pp. lviii–lix, and R. Ridolfi, ‘Contributi sopra Niccolò Tedesco', Bibliofilia, 58 (1956), disp. 1, p. 2.
Collation
Collation: [a2 b c10 d–k8 l4 m–p8].
References
ISTC: if00150000
GW: GW 9878;
Hain: HCR 7071;
Goff: Goff F‑150;
BMC: BMC VI 625;
Proctor: Pr 6126;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑114; Sheppard 5053.
LCN: 14382272
Copies
Copy number: F-046(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [l4].
Binding: Parchment (Italian).
Size: 278 × 196 × 32 mm.
Size of leaf: 273 × 182 mm.
Occasional early notes and underlining in the text.
Epigraphic initials are supplied in blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858); sale (1860), lot 2569. Purchased for £0. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 27.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sub. fen. 2.12.
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