Venice: Per Bernardinu[m] de Choris de Cremona [et] Simone[m] de Luero, impe[n]sis Andree Toresani de Asula, 13 Augusti 1491.
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Contents: Hipparchus; De philosophia; Theages; Meno; Alcibiades I-II; Minos; Euthyphro; Parmenides; Philebus; Hippias maior; Lysis; Theaetetum; Ion; Sophista; Civilis de regno; Protagoras; Euthydemus; Hippias minor; Charmides; Laches; Clitophon; Cratylus; Gorgias; Convivium; Phaedrus; Apologia Socratis; Crito; Phaedo; Menexenus; De republica; Timaeus; Critias; De legibus; Epinomis; Epistolae. Ficinus: Vita Platonis; Epitoma in Theaetetum; Commentarium in Convivium; Compendium in Timaeum; Theologia platonica. Naldus Naldius: Disticha in laudem operis.
Translated from the Greek, with commentaries, by Marsilio Ficino.
At head of title: Naldus Nandius [i.e. Naldius?] Florentinus in huius operis laudem; followed by 7 distichs.
Imprint from colophon (leaf 2H8 verso).
Signatures: [a]4 2a8 b-o8 p-q10 r-z8 A-D8 E-F10 G-Z8 2A-2F8 2G-2H10.
Leaves printed on both sides.
Text in double columns; 62 lines per page.
Guide-letters; catch-words.
"Prohemium Marsilij Ficini Florentini in libros Platonis ad Laurentiu[m] Medice[m] viru[m] magnanimu[m]" --Leaf [a]1 verso.
"Marsilij Ficini Florentini Platonica theologia de animorum immortalitate" --Leaves 338a-442b (T2 recto-2H8 verso).
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Ms. notes on recto of 1st leaf: Urbani Pavinini sum; Collegij Societatis Iesu Viennae, Catalogo miseriphil., 1608.
Bound in old full vellum over paper boards; title inked on spine; yapp edges.