• This material is open for research.
• Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing a complete copy of Ficino's translation of two sections of the Corpus Hermeticum concerning divine wisdom and the creation of the world.
• Ex libris William John Monson, Baron Monson (Monson MSS 140). Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's sale, London, 2013 July 2, lot 62) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
• Colophon concludes: "Scriptus per me phillippum butinum civem parmen[ensis]."
• Ownership inscriptions of Baron Monson on front and back endleaves, recording his purchase of this volume in Padua in 1844.
• Bookplate: Armorial bookplate of Baron Monson on front pastedown.
• Layout: single columns of 22 lines.
• Script: humanist.
• Decoration: rubricated. 13 one-line initials in gold with purple penwork tracing; two large decorated initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds, within frames and enclosing knotwork designs.
• Binding: twentieth-century full dark red morocco.
• Marsilio Ficino, Agumentum in librum Mercuri Trismegisti. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Butini, Filippo, -- scribe.
• Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
• Hermes, Trismegistus.
• Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464.
• Hermetism -- Early works to 1800.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Italy -- 1268-1559.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- 15th century.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance, -- Italy -- 15th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
• Monson, John Monson, Baron, 1868-1940
• Monson, John Monson, Baron, 1868-1940