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Jamblichus

De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Table of contents.]

a1v Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Julianus de Medici. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II (Basel, 1576), 1873; see Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, p. lxix, no. n 1; part of the manuscript used for this edition is now Paris, BnF, MS. suppl. gr. 212; see Martin Sicherl, ‘Druckmanuskripte der Platonikerübersetzungen Marsilio Ficino's', Italia medioevale e umanistica, 20 (1977), 323-39, at 323-4.

a2r Jamblichus: De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum. Translated, or rather paraphrased, by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1873-1908; see Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I lxix no. n 1; Martin Sicherl, Die Handschriften, Ausgaben und Übersetzungen von Iamblichos De mysteriis: Eine kristisch-historische Studie, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 5,7 (Berlin, 1957), 182-8.

f1v Proclus: In Platonicum Alcibiadem. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. ‘Excerpta Marsilii Ficini ex graecis Procli commentariis in Alcibiadem Platonis primum.’ Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1908-28.

h7r Proclus: De sacrificio et magia. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1928-9.

h8v Porphyrius: De divinis et daemonibus. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. ‘Porphyrius de occasionibus, siue causis ad intelligibilia nos ducentibus.’ Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1929-32.

i4r Porphyrius: De abstinentia animalium. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1932-9.

L1r Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1968.

L1r Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter addressed to] Petrus de' Medici. Dated 15 Apr. 1489. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1968.

L1v Synesius: De somniis. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1968-78.

N1r Psellus, Michael: De daemonibus. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1939-45.

N3r Ficinus, Marsilius: Letter addressed to Philippus Valor. C. B. Schmitt, ‘Theophrastus', CTC III 175-82, at 78-9.

N7v Priscianus Lydus: Metaphrasis in Theophrastum. ‘Interpraetatio Prisciani Lydi in Theophrastum de sensu traducta et exposita a Marsilio Ficino . . .’ Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1801-35; see Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I p. xv; the text alternates with Ficino's commentary; see also Schmitt as above.

S5r Ficinus, Marsilius: [Preface dedicated to] Giovanni Cavalcanti. ‘Prohemium in Alcinoi et Speusippi et Pythagorae opuscula . . .’ Marsilio Ficino, Lettere, ed. Sebastiano Gentile, I (Florence, 1990), 99-102.

S6r Alcinous; [Albinus pseudo-]: De doctrina Platonis. [Also known as Disciplinarum Platonis epitome.] Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1946-62; on the work and the ascription of authorship see A‑151.

V8r Speusippus: De Platonis definitionibus. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1962-4; on Ficino's ascription to Xenocrates see, J. Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance (Leiden, 1990), 307.

X2v Pythagoras [pseudo-]: Aurea verba et symbola. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1978-9.

X3v Ficinus, Marsilius: [Preface dedicated to] Petrus de' Medici. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1965.

X4r Xenocrates [pseudo-?]: De morte. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, II 1965-8. On the authorship see Jackson P. Hershbell, Pseudo-Plato, ‘Axiochus’, Society of Biblical Literature, Texts and Translations, 21, Graeco-Roman Religion ser., 6 (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981), 20-1. On the translation see Jacques Chevalier, Étude critique du dialogue pseudo-platonicien l'Axiochos (Paris, 1915), 3 no. 3; on Ficino's ascription to Xenocrates see, J. Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance (Leiden, 1990), 307, note 104.

X7v Ficinus, Marsilius: [Preface dedicated to] Antonio Canigiani. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, I 986.

X8r Ficinus, Marsilius: De voluptate. Marsilius Ficinus, Opera, I 987-1012.

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Sept. 1497. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a–i8 k4 L M6 N O p q R–Z8 [et]10.

References

ISTC: ij00216000

Hain: HC *9358;

Goff: Goff J‑216;

BMC: BMC V 557;

Proctor: Pr 5559;

Others: BSB‑Ink I‑127; CIBN J‑147; Hillard 1125; Oates 2177-9; Rhodes 1002; Sack, Freiburg, 2010; Scapecchi, ‘Annali', 17; Sheppard 4639-41.

LCN: 14532953, 14533012

Copies

Copy number: J-093(1)

Wanting the blank leaf [et]10.

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf. ‘3' across the fore-edge. ‘24' on the upper left-hand corner of the front pastedown.

Size: 293 × 200 × 30 mm.

Size of leaf: 285 × 193 mm.

Manuscript foliation, even numbers only, from f2r to h8r.

On a2r a seven-line initial ‘A' is supplied in burgundy and gold on a square blue ground with white pen-work decoration.

Provenance: De l'Argilière family, seigneurs du Fay, Champagne; on a2r: coat of arms: or, a fess gules, between three trefoils slipped of the second; see A‑475(1). Acquired by 1835; see Catalogus (1843), III 385.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1R 4.7.

Copy number: J-093(2)

Wanting the blank leaf [et]10.

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia, with marbled pastedowns and yellow-edged leaves.

Size: 307 × 204 × 30 mm.

Size of leaf: 298 × 197 mm.

Provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1833); manuscript note on the front endleaf; according to the Bodleian's annotated copy of the sale catalogue, Heber purchased the book for £2. 12. 6; see Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 3761, for £1. 5. 0 (Bodleian's annotated sale catalogue). Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 1744. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. C. 6.4.

Copy number: J-093(3)

Wanting the blank leaf [et]10.

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) gold-tooled diced russia, with marbled pastedowns; rebacked.

Size: 311 × 208 × 33 mm.

Size of leaf: 304 × 201 mm.

On X7v and X8r a few marginal notes, extracting key words, in a contemporary Italian hand.

Provenance: Marco Domenico Cepollini (fifteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘ex munere Mci Dominici Cȩpollini I[uris] C[onsulti] Coll. Ian[uensis]'; the assumption that ‘Ian.' should be expanded as Ianuensis is supported by Walsh 3222, a copy of the Genoese statutes, which has the inscription: ‘Dominici Cepollini J. C.' Robert Finch (1783-1830). Bequeathed to the University by R. Finch; see Finch catalogue 147. Taylor Institution, University of Oxford; book-plate with shelfmark in blue ink: ‘V 193'. Transferred to the Bodleian from the Taylor Institution in 1921.

SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1497.3.


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