tid00241000

Text-inc Id:

tid00241000

Bod-inc Id:

D-090

Headings:

Dionysius Areopagita De mystica theologia; De divinis nominibus.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter to] Johannes de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[C]um et me Benius meus semel . . .’ Dated 1492; see Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, p. lxviii, no. l 1.
2. a1r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prohemium'. Incipit: ‘[D]ionysi Dei numen theologi veteres . . .’
3. a1v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in orationem Dionysii de trinitate'. Incipit: ‘[D]ionysius Areopagita platonice discipline culmen . . .’
4. a2r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prosecutio expositionis de trinitate'. Incipit: ‘[R]es quelibet quo magis bonitate vigent . . .’
5. a2v Dionysius Areopagita [pseudo-]: De mystica theologia. ‘Oratio . . . ad trinitatem'. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Dionysiaca, 565-97 (translation F).
6. a3r Ficinus, Marsilius: Expositio de trinitate. Incipit: ‘Bonum est super essentiam et intellectum . . . [Q]uatuor cognitionis species sunt . . .’
7. b8v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumenta . . . in Dionysium Areopagitam de diuinis nominibus'. Incipit: ‘[C]um multi tam Latini quam Greci . . .’
8. c1r Dionysius Areopagita [pseudo-]: De divinis nominibus. Translated by Marsilius Ficinus. Dionysiaca, 5-537 (translation F).

Imprint:

Florence: Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus, [after 2 Dec. 1496]. 4°.

Collation:

a-i l–t⁸ u⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: id00241000 GW 8410; HC (+ Addenda) *6234; Goff D‑241; BMC VI 669; Pr 6404; BSB‑Ink D‑171; Oates 2435; Sheppard 5208-9. LCN: 14341351, 14341439

Copies:

1. D-090(1) First copy The inner sheet of gathering s is misbound in the order s_{5, 6, 3, 4}. With a variant colophon as GW (Anm.): the last line on u4v reads ‘ . . . frāſciſci . . .’ Binding: Parchment over pasteboards. Size: 196 × 140 × 34 mm. Size of leaf: 186 × 132 mm. Provenance:Purchased for £1. 11. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 32, which gives the date of the imprint as 1492. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.78.
2. D-090(2) Second copy With a variant colophon as GW (Anm.): the last line on u4v reads ‘ . . . frāſciſci . . .’ Binding: Half parchment. Size: 196 × 135 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 130 mm. On u4v inscriptions: ‘Non est amicus noster qui hunc librum tollit' and ‘Ego non tuli, sed vinxi sorte' in early humanist hands. Initials are supplied in ink. Provenance: On a1r cancelled inscriptions: ‘Di fra Christoforo(?)' and ‘Ad [ ] pertinet [ ]'. Giuseppe Alberto Martini (1870-1944); Catalogue V (1899), no. 59. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased from David Nutt in 1899 (bill pasted in); Elenchus, no. 1108. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. M 3.13.