[Opera]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Opera]
Classmark: Strong Room for. fol. 1491 PLA
Creator(s): Plato
Additional creator(s): Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499) (Other); Cori, Bernardino de' (Printer); Luere, Simone da (Printer); Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529) (Publisher)
Publisher: per Bernardinu[m] de Choris de Cremona [et] Simone[m] de luero, impe[n]sis Andree Toresani de Asula; Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona and Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus, de Asula
Publication city: Impressum Venetijs [Venice]
Date(s): 13. Augusti.1491. [13 August 1491]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 4 unnumbered pages, 444 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35766
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007634129705181
Description
Signatures: [a]⁴ 2a⁸ b-o⁸ p-q¹⁰ r-z⁸ A-D⁸ E-F¹⁰ G-Z⁸ AA-FF⁸ GG-HH¹⁰.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on HH8v reads: Impressum Venetijs per Bernardinu[m] de Choris de Cremona [et] Simone[m] de luero impe[n]sis Andree Toresani de Asula 13.Augusti.1491.
Translated into Latin by Marsilio Ficino.
Printed in two columns with 62 lines to a full column.
Printed catchwords on versos.
Initial spaces with guide-letters, also spaces for Greek.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00772000.
Indexed in: Goff P772; Hain 13063; S 14974.
Features
On the leaf opposite the title page in sixteenth-century black ink manuscript is a list of members of the Platonic Academy.
Marginal annotations and manicules in red and black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century.
Astrological charts in red and black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, on a2v and HH1v.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding of dark brown calf over bevelled wooden boards, rebacked. The leather is blind-stamped on the upper and lower covers with an interlace pattern forming lozenges of different sizes. The spine has three raised bands. The Roman numeral II is written in black ink manuscript on the tail-edge. There is evidence of four metal clasps, now lost, at the head and tail and at the fore-edge. Size: 323 x 222mm. Leaf size: 306 x 212mm.
Provenance
Cutting from a sale catalogue pasted on the inside front cover, price £21.
Access and usage
Access
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