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Bessarionis Cardinalis Sabini & Patriarche Consta[n]tinopolitani capitula libri p[ri]mi aduersus calu[m]niatore[m] Plato[n]is incipiu[n]t feliciter

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [before 28 Aug. 1469]
Call number: 84848
Creator: Bēssariōn (1403-1472)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Inscription on front blank verso: R . no . c . xxiiij. Volumen hoc extestamento d[omi]nj nicholai de co[m]bras[i.e. Coimbra?] donavit monast[eri]o carth. floren[tiae] 1480 Defensione diplatone. Occasional contemporary marginal ms. annotations, some trimmed. Acquired by Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, at an unknown date and remained in the Herbert family until the sale at Sotheby in 1914. Purchased by George D. Smith from Sotheby's in 1914. Acquired by the Huntington Library from Smith after 1914. Laid-in anonymous unpriced bookseller's description, one in ms. on lined paper, one carbon copy typescript.
Dimensions: 35 cm (folio)
Associated people: Sweynheim, Konrad, (-1477,); Pannartz, Arnold, (-approximately 1478,); Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, (1656-1733,)
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