In calumniatorem Platonis
Subtitle: An natura et ars consilio agant
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 174, item 5
Publisher: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz
Published: 1469
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 234
Notes: Signatures: [a⁸, b⁶, c-r¹⁰, s¹², t-v¹⁰, x¹², y¹⁰, z⁸, A⁸] ([a]¹, [A]7-8 blank).

Verse colophon: Aspicis illustris lector quicunqus libellos/ Si cupis artificum nomina nosse: lege./ Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona: forsan/ Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum./ Cõradus suueynheym: Arnoldus pãnartzqus magistri/ Rome impresserunt talia multa simul./ Petrus cum fratre Francisco Maximus ambo/ Huic operi aptatam contribuere domum./

Space for capital & heading at the beginning of each book.

Includes (sig.[z]2-[A]6) Bessarion's An natura et ars consilio agant.

Directed against Georgius Trapezuntius.

Hain-Copinger, 3004*.

Proctor, 3300.

Goff, B-518.

GW, 4183.

BM 15th cent., IV, 7 (IB.17126).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib00518000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1286-1287.

Polain, 634.

From the library of Henry Huth, with his booklabel.

Imperfect: blank leaves [A]7-8 wanting.

Initial and heading spaces at beginning of each book not filled in; without rubrication.

Manuscript annotations, illegible and almost entirely faded, on verso of preliminary blank leaf. Beginning on leaf 18, rectos foliated at upper right. Marginal annotations, illegible and almost entirely faded on leaf 18r, and scattered throughout. Handwriting 18th century or earlier.

Initials and occasional capital strokes added in red.

Leaves [a]-2-[c]-1 (table of contents) misbound at end; blank leaves [a]1 & [A]7-8 not present.

Bound in modern brown morocco by R. Petit; edges gilt.

Bound in 19th-century brown morocco, edges gilt.