Lucii Apuleii Platonici Madaurensis philosophi Metamorphoseos liber ac nonnulla alia opuscula eiusdem, necnon epistoma Alcinoi in disciplinarum Platonis desinunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apuleius.

Contributor:

Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475.

Alcinous, active 2nd century.

Sancto Ursio, Henricus de, active 1480-1508, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1488

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Annotations (Provenance)

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Vicenza -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Austria. Bundesdenkmalamt (stamp)

Bembo, Bernardo, 1433-1519 (former owner)

Goldschmidt, E. Ph. (Ernst Philip) (bookplate)

Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938 (autograph)

Moss, Joseph William, 1803-1862 (autograph)

Penrose, Boies, 1902-1976 (donor)

Smith, George D. (George Dallas), 1870-1920 (inscription)

Warden, Frank L. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

178 unnumbered leaves (the first and last leaves blanks) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Metamorphoseos liber ac nonnulla alia opuscula eiusdem, necnon epistoma Alcinoi in disciplinarum Platonis desinunt

Goff title: Opera

Fingerprint:

etio t.bi o.em cote (C) 1488 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Vicenza] : Impressa per Henricum de Sancto Vrso in Vicentia, Anno salutis MCCCCLXXXVIII die nona Augusti [9 Aug. 1488]

Contents:

(from t.p. verso) L. Apuleii Madaurensis philosophi Platonici Metamorphoseos siue De asino aureo liber primus[-undecimus]

Lutii Apuleii Madaurensis philosophi Platonici Floridorum liber primus[-quartus]

Lutii Apuleii Madaurensis philosophi Platonici Apologiae siue Defensionis magiae ad clarissimum uirum Claudium Maximum proco[n]sule[m] pro se oratio prima-[secunda]

Lutii Apuleii Madurensis philosophi Platonici De deo Socratis liber ...

De philosophia liber

L. Apuleii Madaurensis philosophi Platonici Cosmographia siue De mundo ad Faustinu[m] liber ...

Hermetis Trimegisti Dialogus L. Apuleii Madaurensis philosophi Platonici in Latinu[m] co[n]uersio

Alcinoi Disciplinarum Platonis epitoma, id est, breuiarum ... Episcopi Troien[sis] [i.e. Pietro Balbi] ad Nicolaum Cusensem Cardinalem co[n]uersio.

Notes:

Edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi.

Title and imprint from colophon on leaf [con]4v, which reads: Lucii Apuleii platonici Madaurensis philosophi metamorphoseos liber: ac nonnulla alia opuscula eiusdem: necnon epistoma Alcinoi in disciplinarum Platonis desinunt.. Impressa per Henricum de Sancto Vrso in Vicentia. Anno salutis .M.CCCC.LXXXVIII. Die nona Augusti.

Chancery folio. Leaf a1v: 38 lines, plus headline; area of text: 211 (225) x 124 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut printer's device of Henricus de Sancto Ursio (73 x 44 mm.): "[T]he letters, R V, stand for the printer's Italian name, Rigo Vicentino (or possibly Ursio)."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 111. Register on leaf [con]5r.

Signatures: A⁶ a-m⁸/⁶ n-o⁸ p-u⁶/⁸ x-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ (leaves A1 and [con]6 blanks).

"On the probably erroneous attribution of Alcinous, Epitome to Albinus (cf. GW), see Alcinoos, Enseignement des doctrines de Platon, ed. John Whittaker (Paris, 1990). De mundo is the Latin reworking by Apuleius of the Pseudo-Aristotelian tract. The translation of Asclepius is probably not by Apuleius"--ISTC.

"Reprinted, to a large extent with the same page-contents, from the edition of Sweynheym and Pannarts, Rome, 1469 ... printed headings and head-lines being added."--BM 15th cent.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 287 x 192 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. marginal annotations in brown ink in text. A modern ms. note on the front free endpaper identifies the hand as that of Bernardo Bembo (1433-1519).

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown and in brown ink on front free endpaper; modern ms. inscription praising Giovanni Andrea Bussi on front free endpaper; initial supplied in ms. on leaf i6r; early ms. shelf-mark(?) ("Cl. VIII. rec[?]") at head of back pastedown; paper label with ms. numeral ("1465") in pencil at foot of back pastedown.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1955 by Boies Penrose.

Penn Libraries copy has gold-tooled black leather bookplate ("EX LIBRIS E. PH. G") of Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954) on front pastedown; autograph ("Jos. W. Moss Magd. Hall Oxon.") of Joseph William Moss (1803-1862), who matriculated at Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford, in 1820, on front pastedown; armorial bookplate of Frank L. Warden on front pastedown; two round stamps of the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt on front pastedown; dated early 20th-century autograph ("H.C. Hoskier 1905") of Herman C. Hoskier (1864-1938) on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. inscription ("of G.D. Smith") recording the purchase of this volume from George D. Smith (1870-1920).

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; 4 raised bands on spine; ms. title ("L Apuleij Metamorpho") and imprint date ("1488") on spine; all edges stippled red.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf [con]6 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins with damage to ms. marginalia; a few wormholes in pastedowns, free endpapers and leaves at beginning and end of volume; some leaves at beginning and end of volume dampstained at fore-edge; head outer corner of leaves [et]1-[con]5 torn off.

Cited in:

Goff A-935

BM 15th cent. VII, p. 1047 (IB.31851)

GW 2302

BN cat. des incun. A-493

BSB-Ink. A-659

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3508, 3509

ISTC ia00935000

Contains:

Asclepius.

OCLC:

17357708