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Opera. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 August 1492, 26 March 1491.
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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-524)
Opera. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 August 1492, 26 March 1491.
A fresh copy of the first collected edition of Boethius’s works, including the first printing of De musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. Other works are on mathematics, logic and philosophy, including his highly influential De consolatione philosophiae. This text and Boethius’s other work as a translator and commentator played a vital role in the transmission of Classical knowledge in the Middle Ages. The first part of Porphyry’s Isagoge (in Boethius’s translation) was clearly bound at the end from the time of binding, as indicated by the table contents annotated with pagination in a strictly contemporary hand. H 3351*; GW 4511; BMC V 341, XII 25; BSB-Ink B-618; Bod-inc B-382; CIBN B-557; Klebs 192.1; Goff B-767; ISTC ib00767000.
Two parts in one, chancery folio (312 x 207mm). 352 leaves, quires A-B [Porphyry part I] bound at end. Greek and Roman types, incipits of first two sections printed in red, numerous woodcut musical and mathematical diagrams, initials in red or blue, red capital strokes (a few small wormholes in first 3 quires, faint rubricator’s smudge in 2 leaves). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards with floral and Laubstab tools, index tabs, title written on fore-edge (rebacked, repaired in place of earlier metalpieces, scuffed). Provenance: some contemporary annotations, including deleted note in margin of one leaf – ?Louvain, Friars Minor (inscription erased from second leaf – Paul Heilbronner (bookplate).
Opera. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 August 1492, 26 March 1491.
A fresh copy of the first collected edition of Boethius’s works, including the first printing of De musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. Other works are on mathematics, logic and philosophy, including his highly influential De consolatione philosophiae. This text and Boethius’s other work as a translator and commentator played a vital role in the transmission of Classical knowledge in the Middle Ages. The first part of Porphyry’s Isagoge (in Boethius’s translation) was clearly bound at the end from the time of binding, as indicated by the table contents annotated with pagination in a strictly contemporary hand. H 3351*; GW 4511; BMC V 341, XII 25; BSB-Ink B-618; Bod-inc B-382; CIBN B-557; Klebs 192.1; Goff B-767; ISTC ib00767000.
Two parts in one, chancery folio (312 x 207mm). 352 leaves, quires A-B [Porphyry part I] bound at end. Greek and Roman types, incipits of first two sections printed in red, numerous woodcut musical and mathematical diagrams, initials in red or blue, red capital strokes (a few small wormholes in first 3 quires, faint rubricator’s smudge in 2 leaves). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards with floral and Laubstab tools, index tabs, title written on fore-edge (rebacked, repaired in place of earlier metalpieces, scuffed). Provenance: some contemporary annotations, including deleted note in margin of one leaf – ?Louvain, Friars Minor (inscription erased from second leaf – Paul Heilbronner (bookplate).
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