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Metadata

DS ID:

DS678

Shelfmark:

LJS 438

Title:

Neoplatonic and neopythagorean translations.

Neoplatonic translations

Neopythagorean translations

Author:

Accademia platonica (Florence, Italy)

Platonic Academy WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

[circa 1475]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 94 leaves : paper ; 210 x 137 (142 x 80) mm bound to 222 x 148 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cavalli, Francesco

Franco Cavalli WIKIDATA

Note:

Decoration: 3 illuminated initials in gold on blue, pink, and green ground with white scrollwork (f. 1r, 3r, 10r); 2-line initials in blue ink with guide letters visible in third work only (f. 11v-40v); rubrication in red in first section of manuscript (f. 1r-47v, works translated or written by Marsilio Ficino); some spaces left for initials in second section (f. 51r-91v); occasional...
Origin: Written in Florence, circa 1475.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Contemporary (15th-century) oak boards and leather back with remains of 2 pairs of clasps. Parchment pastedowns are fragments from a large 14th-century manuscript; the one inside the upper cover shows the end of one of 2 columns, with 2 intials infilled simply with red and yellow, with text from Saint Ambrose's De fide resurrectionis.
Foliation: Paper, i (14th-century parchment pastedown) + ii + 94; 1-8¹⁰ 9⁶ 10⁸; 1-57, 59-93, [94-95], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Parchment guards on gatherings. Vertical catchwords on lower right of last verso of each gathering except the last (f. 10v, 20v, 30v, 40v, 50v, 61v, 71v, 81v, 87v).
Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
Script: Written in humanistic cursive script by at least 2 hands (f. 1r-47v, 51r-92v).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Sold by Libreria antiquaria Pregliasco (Turin, Italy) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, July 2002.
Formerly owned by Francesco Cavalli (inscription ex libris Fsci Cavalli, f. 1r), late 18th or early 19th century?

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Fifteenth century

translations (documents)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Plato

Criticism and interpretation

Early works

Neoplatonism

Humanism

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959472393503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3901zg6x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania