Index eorum, quæ hoc in libro habentur. Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldæorum. Assyriorum... [etc.]
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Type of record: Book
Title: Index eorum, quæ hoc in libro habentur. Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldæorum. Assyriorum... [etc.]
Other titles: De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum; Index eorum, quae hoc in libro habentur. Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldaeorum. Assyriorum
Classmark: BC Incunabula IAM
Additional creator(s): Albinus (Other); Porphyry (234-305) (Other); Priscianus Lydus (Other); Proclus (410-485) (Other); Pythagoras (c. 580 B.C.-500 B.C) (Other); Speusippus (Other); Iamblichus (250-330) (Other); Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499) (Other); Manuzio, Aldo (1515) (Other); Psellus, Michael (Other); Synesius of Cyrene, bishop of Ptolemaïs (Other); Manuzio, Aldo (1515) (Printer); Vaughan, Wilmot Earl of Lisburne (1730?-1800) (Former owner); Grey, Charles Hervey (1875-1955) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Plato; Theophrastus
Publisher: In ædibus Aldi; Aldus Manutius, Romanus
Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Mense Septembri M.IIID. [September 1497]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 186 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/58521
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007756759705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-i⁸ L-M⁶ N-O⁸ p-q⁸ R-Z⁸ &¹⁰.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on &8v reads: Venetiis mense Septembri.M.IIID. In ædibus Aldi.
Printed with 37 long lines to a full page.
Printed headlines and catchwords.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Partial contents: In Platonicum Alcibiadem / Proclus. -- De sacrificio et magia. -- De divinis et daemonibus / Porphyrius. -- De somniis / Synesius. -- De daemonibus / Psellus. -- In Theophrastum De sensu / Priscianus et Marsilius Ficinus. -- De doctrina Platonis / Alcinous. -- De Platonis definitionibus / Speusippus. -- Aurea verba et symbola / Pythagoras. -- De morte / Xenocrates. -- De voluptate / Marsilius Ficinus.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00216000.
Indexed in: Goff J216; BMC V 557.
Features
Occasional marginal annotations in early ink manuscript, mostly faded or washed.
The woodcut initial on a2r has been painted in red, yellow and blue.
The major initials on f1v, h7r, h8v, K1v, L1v, N7v, N8v, S5r, S6r, V8r and X8r are decorated in red and blue with pen ornamentation extending down the margins.
Other major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Wanting the final blank leaf.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of full citron goatskin over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are decorated with an identical design comprising a gold-tooled border with a repeating pattern of scrolls and squares and a blind-tooled panel decorated with scrolls containing a central gold-tooled motif in the shape of an eight-pointed star. The spine has six raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Iamblichus De mysteriis. The other panels are gold-tooled with a border of fillets inside which are scrolls and fleurons. The book has marbled paper pastedowns featuring the comb and and curl patterns in red, yellow, blue and cream. The turn-ins are blind-tooled with a repeating pattern of flowers and the board edges are gold-tooled with a repeating pattern of scrolls and squares. The book has gilt edges and a green silk ribbon register. Size: 326 x 230mm. Leaf size: 312 x 215mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: The Right Honourable Wilmot Viscount Lisburne, in the Kingdom of Ireland.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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Profile: Charles Hervey Grey (1875-1955)
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Profile: Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
Biography of Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.