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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Severinus (ca. 480-524). De consolatione philosophiae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 November 1476.
Royal 2° (340x228 mm). Collation: [π6 110 28 310 46] (π1 blank, π2 tabula, 1/1 blank, 1/2r text). 38 (of 140, without blanks π1 and 1/1, and lacking the commentary of Thomas Waleys) leaves. 34 lines, table in two columns. Type: 2:115G. A small armorial device in red, white and blue on first page, 3- and 6-line initials in red and blue, other initial spaces left blank, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, some early ms. guide-letters still visible in gutter. (4/6v very slightly soiled, small wormholes in table rarely affecting letters.) Modern vellum-backed pastepaper boards covered with printed leaf.
The works of Boethius were essential to the Middle Ages as the chief conduits of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought, and in De consolatione philosophiae Boethius incorporated large parts ot Plato's Timaeus. The figure of Philosophy in allegorical female form comes to Boethius to lead him to the ultimate knowledge, which, for the Christian Boethius, was God. HC *3370; GW 4526(I); BMC II, 413 (IC. 7134-5); Goff B-771; Pellechet 2513; IDL 906; IGI 1822; BSB B-596
Royal 2° (340x228 mm). Collation: [π6 110 28 310 46] (π1 blank, π2 tabula, 1/1 blank, 1/2r text). 38 (of 140, without blanks π1 and 1/1, and lacking the commentary of Thomas Waleys) leaves. 34 lines, table in two columns. Type: 2:115G. A small armorial device in red, white and blue on first page, 3- and 6-line initials in red and blue, other initial spaces left blank, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, some early ms. guide-letters still visible in gutter. (4/6v very slightly soiled, small wormholes in table rarely affecting letters.) Modern vellum-backed pastepaper boards covered with printed leaf.
The works of Boethius were essential to the Middle Ages as the chief conduits of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought, and in De consolatione philosophiae Boethius incorporated large parts ot Plato's Timaeus. The figure of Philosophy in allegorical female form comes to Boethius to lead him to the ultimate knowledge, which, for the Christian Boethius, was God. HC *3370; GW 4526(I); BMC II, 413 (IC. 7134-5); Goff B-771; Pellechet 2513; IDL 906; IGI 1822; BSB B-596