florentinu_m_, Leonardi Aretini clarissimi oratoris, in ep_isto_las
plato_n_is quas ex græcis latinas fecit! p_rae_fatio; _Fol. 52^a_,
COLOPHON: FINIS.

Discite rectores diuinitus, ore platonis!
Quid uos, q_ui_d ciues reddat in urbe bonos;

Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^8, 6^2, 7^2], 52 leaves, 23 lines to
the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
place, printer's name or date. Three- to five-line spaces left for
capitals. The first initial supplied in blue and red, other
capitals in blue and red alternately. Initial strokes in yellow.
Claudia XIV. Philippe VII. Crevenna 1523. Hain 13066.

Leonardo Bruni, often called Leonardo Aretini from his birthplace
Arezzo, translated five of the dialogues of Plato in addition to the
letters.

The first notice of this edition is found in the _Catalogue
Bolongaro-Crevenna_ (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing
52 printed leaves. It appears from the price-list printed after the sale
in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was "retenu, faute de commissions
ou de concurrence," and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins.
No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only
to copy the catalogue description. Philippe (1885) described Heynlin's
copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as
consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two
blank leaves at the end. Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered
meantime in the Bibliothèque d'Angers at his command, finds one first
blank and forty-nine printed leaves, and remarks that the two blank