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IAMBLICHUS (c.250 - c.325). De mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldaeorum. Assyriorum. – PROCLUS (412-484). In Platonicum Alcibiadem. –De sacrificio et magia. – PORPHYRIUS (233-c.305). De occasionibus. –De abstinentia. – SYNESIUS (370-413). De Somniis. – Michael PSELLUS (1018-1081?). De daemonibus. – Lydus PRESICANUS and Marsilius FICINUS (1433-1499). In Theophrastum De Sensu, phantasia, et intellectu. – ALBINUS Platonicus (fl. 2nd century). De doctrina Platonis. – SEUSIPPUS (c.407-339 B.C.). De Platonis definitionibus. – PYTHAGORAS (attributed to). Aurea verba et symbola. – XENOCRATES (339-314 B.C.). De morte. All edited and translated from the Greek by Marsilius Ficinus (1433-99). Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1497.
Super-chancery 2° (299 x 211mm). Collation: a-i8 K4 L-M6 N-Z8 &10 (a1r title, a1v Ficino's dedication to Cardinal Giovanni de'Medici and Argumentum, a2r Iamblichus, f1v Proclus, h8v Porphyrius, K4v blank; L1r dedications to Lorenzo and Piero de' Medici, L1v Synesius, N1r Psellus, N8v Priscianus, S6r Albinus, V8r Seusippus, X2v Pythagoras, X7v Ficino, &8v colophon, &9r register, &9v-&10 blank). 185 leaves (of 186, without final blank). Type: 2:114R, 2:114 Greek (quotations). 37 lines and headline. Opening 7-line woodcut white-vine initial, 2- to 6-line initial spaces, most with guide-letters. (A few small wormholes, filled in some leaves, outer bifolium in first and last quire rehinged.) Later vellum, spine lettered, edges marbled red and green (leather missing from foot of spine, new endpapers). Provenance: occasional marginalia in several early Italian hands.
FIRST EDITION of this important collection of classical and Byzantine Platonic works, which became widely known to the humanists through Ficino's excerpts and Latin versions. Except for Alcinous on Plato (first printed in Petrus Balbus's translation at Nuremberg in 1472) and the Pythagorean Golden Verses (previously published by Aldus in the 1495 Lascaris and 1496 Theocritus), all these texts first appeared in print in Aldus's edition. Ficino began learning Greek at the age of 23. Cosimo de' Medici gave him the use of a villa at Careggi before he turned 30, and commissioned translations of the Hermetic corpus and Plato. The present translations date from the early 1460s and late 80s, and Ficino dedicated the Aldine edition of them to Lorenzo the Magnificent's second son, Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) and also to Lorenzo himself and his father, Piero, who had all shared Cosimo's role of patron after his death in 1464. HC *9358; BMC V, 557 (IB. 24445-6); IGI 5096; BSB-Ink I-127; CIBN J-147; Bod-inc J-093; Flodr 195:1 (Iamblichus); Klebs 529.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 17; Renouard Alde, 13:6; Goff J-216.
Super-chancery 2° (299 x 211mm). Collation: a-i8 K4 L-M6 N-Z8 &10 (a1r title, a1v Ficino's dedication to Cardinal Giovanni de'Medici and Argumentum, a2r Iamblichus, f1v Proclus, h8v Porphyrius, K4v blank; L1r dedications to Lorenzo and Piero de' Medici, L1v Synesius, N1r Psellus, N8v Priscianus, S6r Albinus, V8r Seusippus, X2v Pythagoras, X7v Ficino, &8v colophon, &9r register, &9v-&10 blank). 185 leaves (of 186, without final blank). Type: 2:114R, 2:114 Greek (quotations). 37 lines and headline. Opening 7-line woodcut white-vine initial, 2- to 6-line initial spaces, most with guide-letters. (A few small wormholes, filled in some leaves, outer bifolium in first and last quire rehinged.) Later vellum, spine lettered, edges marbled red and green (leather missing from foot of spine, new endpapers). Provenance: occasional marginalia in several early Italian hands.
FIRST EDITION of this important collection of classical and Byzantine Platonic works, which became widely known to the humanists through Ficino's excerpts and Latin versions. Except for Alcinous on Plato (first printed in Petrus Balbus's translation at Nuremberg in 1472) and the Pythagorean Golden Verses (previously published by Aldus in the 1495 Lascaris and 1496 Theocritus), all these texts first appeared in print in Aldus's edition. Ficino began learning Greek at the age of 23. Cosimo de' Medici gave him the use of a villa at Careggi before he turned 30, and commissioned translations of the Hermetic corpus and Plato. The present translations date from the early 1460s and late 80s, and Ficino dedicated the Aldine edition of them to Lorenzo the Magnificent's second son, Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) and also to Lorenzo himself and his father, Piero, who had all shared Cosimo's role of patron after his death in 1464. HC *9358; BMC V, 557 (IB. 24445-6); IGI 5096; BSB-Ink I-127; CIBN J-147; Bod-inc J-093; Flodr 195:1 (Iamblichus); Klebs 529.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 17; Renouard Alde, 13:6; Goff J-216.
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