Bessarionis Cardinalis Sabini & Patriarche Consta[n]tinopolitani capitula libri p[ri]mi aduersus calu[m]niatore[m] Plato[n]is incipiu[n]t feliciter
Contributors: Perotti, Niccolo, 1430-1480, translator; Bessarion, Cardinal, 1403-1472; Bessarion, Cardinal, 1403-1472; Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477, printer; Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478, printer; Ashburner, Walter, 1864-1936, former owner
Published: 1469
Language: lat
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Bessarionis Cardinalis Sabini et Patriarchae Constantinopolitani capitula libri primi adversus calumniatorem Platonis incipiunt foeliciter; Adversus calumniatorem Platonis; Elenchoi ton kata Platonos blasphemion. Latin; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction); De erroribus interpretis Legum Plantonis.; De natura et arte.
Work titles: In calumniatorem Platonis
Notes: Title from caption at beginning of the table of contents on [1́] recto.

Place of printing and printers' names from colophon on [24́] verso.

"Dated from mention in a letter of Georgius Trapezuntius to Bessarion (J. Monfasani, Collectanea Trapezuntiana (Binghamton 1984), p. 165, sect. 14)"--ISTC.

"For Nicolaus Perottus as the translator see John Monfasani, 'Bessarion Latinus', Rinascimento, 2nd ser., 21 (1981), 165-209. Book V is known elsewhere as 'De erroribus interpretis Legum Plantonis', book VI as 'De natura et arte'; see Monfasani 184; on the manuscript used for this edition, Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Marc. lat. Z 228, see G. Lombardi, 'Dal manoscritto alla stampa', in Gutenberg e Roma: Le origine della stampa nella citta dei papi (1467-1477), ed. M. Miglio and O. Rossini (Naples, 1997), 29-47, at 33-5."--Bod-inc.

Signatures: [1́ı 2́œ 3-17℗£́ʻ 18℗£℗ø 19-20℗£́ʻ 21℗£℗ø 22℗£́ʻ 23́ı 24́ı] (all leaves unsigned; first leaf and last two leaves blank).

Median folio; 38 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00518000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-518

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IV, 7 (IB. 17126)

Text in Latin, with portions in Greek.

Cataloged 20161227 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern black goatskin with the title stamped in gilt onto the spine. Leaf dimensions: 32.3 x 23.2 cm. The three blank leaves are wanting. Early manuscript foliation, in both arabic and roman numerals, is present on each leaf. Large initial spaces decorated with illuminated initials showing white vines over fields of blue, green, and red, including a three-quarter illuminated white vine border containing the arms of the Boncompagni family on the first page of the main text ([3́] recto). The ink stamp of Walter Ashburner is present on all illuminated pages. Early marginalia is present throughout. The lower margin of [24́] verso is torn away and repaired with no losses to text.