Index eorum quae hoc in libro habentur
Subtitle: Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum, Proclus In Platonicum Alcibiadem de anima, atq[ue] demone, Proclus De sacrificio, & magia, Porphyrius De diuinis, at[que] daemonibus, Synesius Platonicus De somniis, Psellus De daemonibus, Expositio Prisciani, & Marsilii in Theophrastum de sensu, phantasia, & intellectu, Alcinoi Platonici philosophi Liber de doctrina Platonis, Speusippi Platonis discipuli Liber de Platonis definitionibus, Pythagoræ philosophi Aurea uerba, Symbola Pithagorae philosophi, Xenocratis philosophi Platonici Liber de morte, Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander, eiusdem Asclepius, Marsilii Ficini De triplici uita lib. II, eiusdem liber De uoluptate, eiusdem De sole & lumine libri II, Apolgia eiusdem in librum suum de lumine, eiusdem Libellus de magis, Quod necessaria sit securitas, & tranquillitas amini, Praeclarissimarum sententiarum huius operis breuis annotatio
Publisher: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri
Published: 1516
Place of publication: Venitiis
Language: lat
Translated from: gre
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Theurgy; Early works to 1800; Religion; Philosophy; Demonology; Supernatural; Mysticism; Occultism
Other titles: Index eorvm qvae hoc in libro habentvr Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum; Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum; Index eorum quae hoc in libro habentur Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum; De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum; Index eorvm qvae hoc in libro habentvr; Corpus Hermeticum.; Axiochus.; Golden verses.
Description: Second Aldine edition, considerably expanded from the first Aldine edition of 1497.
Notes: Translated and edited by Marsilio Ficino.

2nd, expanded Aldine edition. First issued 1497.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A-Y⁸.

Leaf 175 misnumbered 177. Several other pages misnumbered.

Leaves printed on both sides.

Capital space with guide letters.

Woodcut Aldine device on t.p. and verso of last leaf.

Cf. Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. 3e. éd., 13, no. 6.

Albinus "De doctrina Platonis" formerly ascribed erroneously to Alcinous; cf. R.E. Witt, Albinus and the history of middle Platonism, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1937.

Adams I1

Brunet, III, col. 493

Grässe, III, 447

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 338

Edit 16 (online) CNCE 37529

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. 3e. éd., p. 77, no. 8

Kallendorf & Wells. Aldine Press books at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 135

Ahmanson-Murphy (2001), 150

Graesse, III, 477

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries I1

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres (5e éd.), III, column 493

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, III, 447

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 338

EDIT 16 CNCE 37529

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, page 77, number 8

Latin; Roman type.

Contemporary ms. notes passim, in 2 early hands.

Contemporary ms. notes; some misnumbered pages corrected in contemporary ms.; stamp: Bibl. Coll. SS. Pauli et Barnarbae Mediolani.

Facsimile t.p. from another edition? Title-page (A1) verso blank, lacking Ficino's dedication and Argumentum in librum Iamblichi; recto has text in a different, smaller setting of type (compared with copy A), and the Aldine device is 6.9 x 5.3 cm. (as compared to 10 x 7.4 cm on copy A).

Bound in contemporary vellum.

Bound in early blue boards backed with brown leather, very worn; spine completely worn away at hea, revealing head-bands; remains of gilt-lettered label on spine; old paper label at foot of spine with shelfmark "R x 5".