(Q3439)
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Neoplatonic and neopythagorean translations.
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Accademia platonica (Florence, Italy)
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Cavalli, Francesco
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Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
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Plato--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800
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Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
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Pythagoras and Pythagorean school--Early works to 1800
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[circa 1475]
15. century
1475Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: 94 leaves : paper ; 210 x 137 (142 x 80) mm bound to 222 x 148 mm
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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...
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Origin: Written in Florence, circa 1475.
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Ms. codex.
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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.
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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).
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Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
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Script: Written in humanistic cursive script by at least 2 hands (f. 1r-47v, 51r-92v).
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
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Sold by Libreria antiquaria Pregliasco (Turin, Italy) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, July 2002.
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Formerly owned by Francesco Cavalli (inscription ex libris Fsci Cavalli, f. 1r), late 18th or early 19th century?
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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