Lucii Apuleii platonici Madaurensis philosophi Metamorphoseos liber ac nonnulla alia opuscula eiusdem, necnon epitoma Alcinoi in disciplinarum Platonis desinunt..
Apuleius.
Bussi, Giovanni Andrea,1417-1475.
Hermes,Trismegistus
Balbi, Pietro,1399-1479.
Sancto Ursio, Henricus de,active 1480-1508,printer.
Aristotle.De mundo.Latin
Alcinous,active 2nd century.Didaskalikos.Latin
Benoit, Aegidio de,former owner.StEdNL
A. Rosenthal Ltd.,bookseller.StEdNL
[Venice] : Impraessa perHenricum de Sancto Urso in Vicentia.,
anno salutis .M.CCCC.LXXXVIII. die nona Augusti. [9 August 1488]
Title and imprint from colophon.
Edited by Giovanni Andrea, Bishop of Aleria.
Woodcut printer's device below colophon.
The first and last leaves are blank.
With marginal annotations.
Illuminated initials on a2 and a7, the others in red and blue.
From ISTC: Asinus aureus, sive, Metamorphosis -- Florida -- Apologia -- De deo Socratis -- De Platonis dogmate -- De mundo / [Pseudo-Aristoteles] ; tr. Apuleius -- [Asclepius] / Hermes Trismegistus ; tr. Apuleius -- Epitome disciplinarum Platonis / Alcinous ; tr. Petrus Balbus.
The Epitoma Alcinoi is actually a Latin translation of the Didaskalikos of Albinus.
On the probably erroneous attribution of Alcinous, Epitome to Albinus (cf. GW), see Alcinoos, Enseignement des doctrines de Platon, ed. John Whittaker (Paris, 1990). De mundo is the Latin reworking by Apuleius of the Pseudo-Aristotelian tract. The transaltion of Asclepius is probably not by Apuleius (CIBN)--ISTC.
Reprinted, to a large extent with the same page-contents, from the edition of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469 (IB.17116, vol. iv, p. 6), printed headings and head-lines being added--BM 15th cent.
Signatures: A⁶ a-m⁸·⁶ n⁸ o-x⁸·⁶ y-z⁶ & ⁶ [us]⁶.
38 lines and headlines. Types: 112 R., Gka. Capita spaces with guide letters. Register.
Goff
ISTC
Hain-Copinger
Copinger
BM 15th cent.,
GW
Pellechet
BN cat. des incun.,
Polain
IGI
Rhodes, Oxford colleges,
Bod. Lib. 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink
Proctor
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
On front pastedown: Dono datus [?] Aegidio de Benoit. Bought by the Library from A. Rosenthal with the Lauriston Castle Fund 20 July 1943.
18th-century red morocco with double fillet gilt rolled border on front and back boards and five raised bands on spine forming six gilt tooled compartments. Unidentified gilt armorial stamp on front and back boards, see plate 1280 in Olivier. Manuel de l'Amateur de Reliures Armoriées Françaises. Exposed printed waste below front pastedown.
Plato
Platonists
Italy Venice.