FICINUS, Marsilius (1433-99). Epistolae. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 24 February 1497.

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FICINUS, Marsilius (1433-99). Epistolae. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 24 February 1497.

Super-chancery 4 (201 x 143mm). Collation: s10 A-Z8 a-g8 h4 ( title, v author's introduction, r table, A1r text, h3v colophon, h4 blank). 253 leaves (of 254, without final blank). 42 lines and headline with foliation. Type: 22:108 (title), 23:75R (text). 3- to 8-line initial spaces with printed guide-letter. Initials and some paragraph marks supplied in red. (Some browning, spotting and staining, one or two headlines shaved, small wormholes in title and final three quires touching some letters.) 19th-century brown morocco-backed marbled-paper boards, top edge gilt. Provenance: underlinings in blue, occasional early annotations; Albert Mrlin of Knigsberg, 1579 (title inscription); Gottl. Schelwig, 1715 (title inscription).

Second edition of the collected letters of the greatest proponent of the Italian Renaissance. This Nuremberg edition, reprinting the first, Venetian, edition of 1495, highlights the spread of Renaissance thought north of the Alps. HC *7062; BMC II, 443 (IA. 7529); GW 9874; Polain(B) 1478; Goff F-155.