Bod-Inc: F-053
Ficinus, Marsilius
De vita libri tres.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page, with list of contents.]
a1v ‘Capita primi libri qui tractat de uita sana'.
a3v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prooemium' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. See F‑050; Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, p. lxiv, no. g 2.
a4v Ficinus, Marsilius: [Epistolary preface addressed to] Georgius Antonius Vespuccius and Johannes Baptista Boninsegnius. ed. Kaske and Clark, 106.
b1r Ficinus, Marsilius: De vita libri tres. See F‑050.
y4r Ficinus, Marsilius: Apologia [addressed to] Petrus Nerus, Petrus Guicciardinus and Petrus Soderinus. See F‑050.
z2v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Quod necessaria sit ad uitam securitas et tranquillitas animi', [addressed to] Bernardus Canisianus, Johannes Canacius, and Amerigus Corsinus. See F‑050.
z3v Corsinus, Amerigus: [Verse addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. ed. Kaske and Clark, 404.
z4r ‘Praeclarissimatum sententiarum . . . breuis annotatio'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: [Bartholomaeus Pelusius, Gabriel Bracius, Johannes Bissolus and Benedictus Mangius], 1498. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–z & [con]4.
References
ISTC: if00161000
GW: GW 9886;
Hain: H *7066;
Goff: Goff F‑161;
BMC: BMC XII 41;
Proctor: Pr 5639;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑118; Sheppard 4718.
LCN: 14386484
Copies
Copy number: F-053(1)
Binding: Nineteeenth-century Italian blue quarter morocco over marbled paperboards; bound for Boutourlin.
Size: 214 × 159 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 146 mm.
Early marginal notes, extracting key words and passages pointing hands and underlining in the text in black ink. Manuscript pagination: 1-208. On [con]3v –4r manuscript tables of contents for books 2 and 3, written in the same eighteenth-century(?) hand, which wrote the pagination.
Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); book-plate and shelfmark no. 599, see catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1841), lot 215. Purchased for £0. 5. 0: see Books Purchased (1842), 18.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.3.
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