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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (ca. 480-524). Opera. -pseudo-Boethius. De disciplina scholarium. Commentary by Thomas Waleys. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 26 March 1491, 18 August 1492.
Super-chancery 2° (309x217mm). Collation: A-B6 (In Porphyrium Isagogen editio prima); a8 b10 (...editio secunda); c-d8 e-f6 (In Predicamenta Aristotelis); g4 h6 i8 k-q6 r4 (In librum De interpretatione, r4 blank); s6 (De divisionibus); t6 (Introductio ad categoricos syllogismos); u4-u6 (In libros Topicorum Ciceronis); v8 (De differentiis Topicis); x-y6 z8 (De syllogismo categorico, De syllogismo hypothetico, De trinitate, De hebdomadibus, De unitate et uno, Contra Eutychen & Nestorium); aa-kk6 ll8 (De arithmetica, De musica, ps-Boethius, De geometria, ll8r colophon dated 18 August 1492, register, ll8v printer's device (Husung 162)); ξ4 A8 B-P6 (ξ1 title to De consolatione philosophiae, ξ2r tabula, A1r commentary by Thomas Waleys, A2r text with commentary, L3v ps-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, P6r colophon dated 26 March 1491, P6v blank). 254 (of 256, lacking 2-leaf quire containing general title and contents list); 94 (of 96, lacking N1.6 and with N2.5 supplied in duplicate, N1 from another copy laid in) leaves, part II containing De consolatione philosophiae bound first. 70 lines and headline, double column. Type: 16:66G, 17:80Gb, 22:130G, 88 Greek. Many diagrams, red-printed incipits to In Porphyrium Isagogen editio prima-secunda, 2- to 5-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (A few small wormholes affecting an occasional letter in first and final quires, quire bb loose, some light dampstaining.) Nineteenth-century vellum-backed marbled paper over pastepaper boards, spine label. Provenance: some marginal annotations in an early hand; Mr. Sodigini, 18th-century note of gift, F.P. M[agist]ris Frac'sti(?) R. Sodigini et dono R[everen]di M[agist]ri Hieronymi Viehnii.
FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTED WORKS and the first edition of several individual tracts, such as De musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. H *3351; GW 4511; BMC V, 341 (IB. 21008); Goff B-767; Klebs 192.1; Pellechet-Polain 2490; IDL 926; IGI 1816; BSB B-618
Super-chancery 2° (309x217mm). Collation: A-B6 (In Porphyrium Isagogen editio prima); a8 b10 (...editio secunda); c-d8 e-f6 (In Predicamenta Aristotelis); g4 h6 i8 k-q6 r4 (In librum De interpretatione, r4 blank); s6 (De divisionibus); t6 (Introductio ad categoricos syllogismos); u4-u6 (In libros Topicorum Ciceronis); v8 (De differentiis Topicis); x-y6 z8 (De syllogismo categorico, De syllogismo hypothetico, De trinitate, De hebdomadibus, De unitate et uno, Contra Eutychen & Nestorium); aa-kk6 ll8 (De arithmetica, De musica, ps-Boethius, De geometria, ll8r colophon dated 18 August 1492, register, ll8v printer's device (Husung 162)); ξ4 A8 B-P6 (ξ1 title to De consolatione philosophiae, ξ2r tabula, A1r commentary by Thomas Waleys, A2r text with commentary, L3v ps-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, P6r colophon dated 26 March 1491, P6v blank). 254 (of 256, lacking 2-leaf quire containing general title and contents list); 94 (of 96, lacking N1.6 and with N2.5 supplied in duplicate, N1 from another copy laid in) leaves, part II containing De consolatione philosophiae bound first. 70 lines and headline, double column. Type: 16:66G, 17:80Gb, 22:130G, 88 Greek. Many diagrams, red-printed incipits to In Porphyrium Isagogen editio prima-secunda, 2- to 5-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (A few small wormholes affecting an occasional letter in first and final quires, quire bb loose, some light dampstaining.) Nineteenth-century vellum-backed marbled paper over pastepaper boards, spine label. Provenance: some marginal annotations in an early hand; Mr. Sodigini, 18th-century note of gift, F.P. M[agist]ris Frac'sti(?) R. Sodigini et dono R[everen]di M[agist]ri Hieronymi Viehnii.
FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTED WORKS and the first edition of several individual tracts, such as De musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. H *3351; GW 4511; BMC V, 341 (IB. 21008); Goff B-767; Klebs 192.1; Pellechet-Polain 2490; IDL 926; IGI 1816; BSB B-618