![BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480-524). [Opera, pat II of part I:] Arithmetica, Geometria et Musica. Commentary by Thomas Waleys. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 August 1492. Super-chancery 2° (310 x 216mm). Roman type. Numerous woodcut diagrams, large printer's device on final page. (Some repaired worming in first 2 and final quire, occasional light marginal stain, stamp removed from first and last page.) Modern flexible vellum. Provenance: a few early marginal annotations -- Lodovico Amorini Bolognini (19th-century armorial bookplate) -- Michael Sharpe (leather bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_07558_0065_000(boethius_anicius_manlius_torquatus_severinus_opera_pat_ii_of_part_i_ar011810).jpg?w=1)
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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480-524). [Opera, pat II of part I:] Arithmetica, Geometria et Musica. Commentary by Thomas Waleys. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 August 1492. Super-chancery 2° (310 x 216mm). Roman type. Numerous woodcut diagrams, large printer's device on final page. (Some repaired worming in first 2 and final quire, occasional light marginal stain, stamp removed from first and last page.) Modern flexible vellum. Provenance: a few early marginal annotations -- Lodovico Amorini Bolognini (19th-century armorial bookplate) -- Michael Sharpe (leather bookplate).
Second edition of De arithmetica and FIRST EDITION of De Musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. These texts form part of the first edition of the Opera, but have their own collective title-page and are sometimes found separately. H *3351; GW 4511; BMC V, 341 (IB. 21008); Klebs 192.1; IGI 1816; BSB-Ink. B-618; Goff B-767.
Second edition of De arithmetica and FIRST EDITION of De Musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. These texts form part of the first edition of the Opera, but have their own collective title-page and are sometimes found separately. H *3351; GW 4511; BMC V, 341 (IB. 21008); Klebs 192.1; IGI 1816; BSB-Ink. B-618; Goff B-767.