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Beinecke MS 1196
Italy, [between 1450 and 1499]
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499, Argumentum in librum Mercuri Trismegisti ad Cosmum Medicem.
In Latin.
74 l. : parchment ; 180 x 120 mm.
- 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