tif00150000

Text-inc Id:

tif00150000

Bod-inc Id:

F-046

Headings:

Ficinus, Marsilius De christiana religione [Italian] Della cristiana religione.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Table of contents.]
2. [b1r] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prohemio'. Incipit: ‘[S]e lhumana generatione laquale puo collume dellintellecto comprehendere . . .’
3. [b3r] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prohemio secundo' [addressed to Laurentius de' Medici.] Incipit: ‘[L]etterna sapientia di dio ordino che emisterii diuini almeno . . .’
4. [b4v] Ficinus, Marsilius: Della cristiana religione. Incipit: ‘[L]experientia naturale ci mostra che tucte ledote delluomo excepta . . .’ See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, pp. lviii–lix, no. b 1, and 7-10; this translation is based on the first redaction of the text; the Latin edition above on the third.

Imprint:

[Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, before 25 Mar. 1475]. 4°. A. della Torre, Storia dell'Accademia Platonica di Firenze (Florence, 1902), 602, note 2, records a copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence (Inc. Magl.B.7.23), with a manuscript note of purchase in 1474; see also Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I, pp. lviii–lix, and R. Ridolfi, ‘Contributi sopra Niccolò Tedesco', Bibliofilia, 58 (1956), disp. 1, p. 2.

Collation:

[a² b c¹⁰ d–k⁸ l⁴ m–p⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: if00150000 GW 9878; HCR 7071; Goff F‑150; BMC VI 625; Pr 6126; BSB‑Ink F‑114; Sheppard 5053. LCN: 14382272

Copies:

1. F-046(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [l4]. Binding: Parchment (Italian). Size: 278 × 196 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 273 × 182 mm. Occasional early notes and underlining in the text. Epigraphic initials are supplied in blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858); sale (1860), lot 2569. Purchased for £0. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 27. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sub. fen. 2.12.