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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-c.524). De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary by Thomas Waleys. [Geneva: Jean Croquet, c.1480].
Chancery 2° (312 x 210mm). Collation: a-x8 (a1 blank, a2r commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas, a4r text with commentary surround, v8v blank, x1r tabula, x8 blank). 167 (of 168, without first blank) leaves. 44 lines of commentary and headline. Type: 1:101/2G, 2:110G. 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letter; rubricated. Mis-signing of sheet e4 corrected as in BL copy, probably in the printing shop. (First leaf repaired at two margins, waterstaining, a few wormholes, short marginal wormtrack in 2 quires.) 16th-century pigskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled with rolls and stamps, two fore-edge clasps (lightly worn, rebacked, clasp leather renewed). Provenance: author's name written on last leaf in a contemporary ?French hand -- a few annotations in two hands, early and modern.
One of only 8 books attributed to the third press at Geneva. Geneva incunabula are rare on the market, and Jean Croquet incunabula are especially rare: only one Croquet imprint (Goff C-770) has sold at auction in over 35 years. Croquet's is the second edition with this commentary, and the first 'in which the commentary is disposed around the text' (BMC). The Consolation of Philosophy was a major conduit of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought in the middle ages. In it, Philosophy, in female form, comes to Boethius to console him in his sorrow and to lead him to the ultimate knowledge. NO COPY IN THE USA. H 3369; C 1105; GW 4527; BMC VIII, 422 (IB. 38463); CIBN B-563.
Chancery 2° (312 x 210mm). Collation: a-x8 (a1 blank, a2r commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas, a4r text with commentary surround, v8v blank, x1r tabula, x8 blank). 167 (of 168, without first blank) leaves. 44 lines of commentary and headline. Type: 1:101/2G, 2:110G. 3- to 6-line initial spaces with guide-letter; rubricated. Mis-signing of sheet e4 corrected as in BL copy, probably in the printing shop. (First leaf repaired at two margins, waterstaining, a few wormholes, short marginal wormtrack in 2 quires.) 16th-century pigskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled with rolls and stamps, two fore-edge clasps (lightly worn, rebacked, clasp leather renewed). Provenance: author's name written on last leaf in a contemporary ?French hand -- a few annotations in two hands, early and modern.
One of only 8 books attributed to the third press at Geneva. Geneva incunabula are rare on the market, and Jean Croquet incunabula are especially rare: only one Croquet imprint (Goff C-770) has sold at auction in over 35 years. Croquet's is the second edition with this commentary, and the first 'in which the commentary is disposed around the text' (BMC). The Consolation of Philosophy was a major conduit of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought in the middle ages. In it, Philosophy, in female form, comes to Boethius to console him in his sorrow and to lead him to the ultimate knowledge. NO COPY IN THE USA. H 3369; C 1105; GW 4527; BMC VIII, 422 (IB. 38463); CIBN B-563.
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