Bod-Inc: F-048
Ficinus, Marsilius
Liber de sole et lumine.
Analysis of Content
a1v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prohemium', [addressed to] Petrus de Medicis. Incipit: ‘[N]ouam Platonis interpretationem auspiciis iandiu tuis . . .’ Explicit: mente complectaris amatum See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, p. lxvii, no. i 1, pp. cxi–cxiii, and pp. 72-3.
a2r Ficinus, Marsilius: Liber de sole et lumine. Incipit: ‘[P]ythagoricum preceptum est, magnanime Petre, profecto diuinum de rebus . . .’ Prosatori latini del Quattrocento, ed. Eugenio Garin (Milan, 1952), 970-1008; see Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Platone: mostra di manoscritti stampe e documenti 17 maggio – 16 giugno 1984, ed. S. Gentile and others (Florence, 1984), nos 118-19.
e1r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Apologia in librum suum de sole et lumine', [addressed to] Philippus Valor. Incipit: ‘[M]arsilius Ficinus Florentinus Philippo Valori oratori apud pontificem Florentino S. D. Librum de sole clarissimo Petro Medici destinatum . . .’ Explicit: est splendore pugnabuntur . . .
e1v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Saepe in celestibus gemini sunt. Item soles duo', [addressed to] Martinus Prenninger. Incipit: ‘[M]arsilius Ficinus Florentinus Martino Vranio Prennyngero Germano suo quasi germano . . .’ Explicit: ipsum iam alit . . .
e2v Bindactius Ricassolanus: ‘Nonnulla de lumine. Item catalogus librorum Marsilii', [addressed to] Georgius [Merula] Alexandrinus. Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, 73-4.
e3v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Catalogus librorum Marsilii Ficini Florentini'. Incipit: ‘Composita. Opiniones philosophorum de deo et anima. Declarationes Platonice in adolescentia . . .’ Explicit: commentariisque illustrat See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, pp. cxiii–cxiv.
e4v [Colophon.]
[f1r] ‘Emendata'.
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 31 Jan. 1493. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d8 e4 [f2].
References
ISTC: if00156000
GW: GW 9880;
Hain: HC *7079;
Goff: Goff F‑156;
BMC: BMC VI 641;
Proctor: Pr 6166;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑115; Sheppard 5118.
LCN: 14382236
Copies
Copy number: F-048(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half russia over marbled paper boards; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 211 × 149 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 204 × 132 mm.
Four-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. Contemporary manuscript foliation: 157-94 in red.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' in pencil on a1r. R. Chardey; book-plate. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); apparently purchased from Cehec(?) sale, Apr. 1911, lot 2081 for 60 Francs; Elenchus, no. 1297b. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. N 1.2.
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