Plotinus, Opera, Basel, 1580, later mottled calf

Plotinus

Operum philosophicorum omnium libri LIV in sex Enneades distributi ex antiquiss. codicum fide nunc primum Graece editi, cum Latina Marsilii Ficini interpretatione & commentatione. Basel: Pietro Perna, 1580

folio (346 x 225mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials and headpiece, woodcut portrait of Ficino opposite start of text, parallel Greek and Latin text, later mottled calf with double gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, quires E-F slightly browned at head, binding somewhat worn

FIRST EDITION of the Greek text of Plotinus; the Latin translation by Ficino was first printed in Florence in 1492, using a manuscript brought back from Constantinople by Giovanni Aurispa and subsequently entered the library of the Medici.

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VD16 P 3571