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De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 8 June 1495.
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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-524)
De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 8 June 1495.
A fine copy of the fourth Koberger edition. The Consolation of Philosophy was a chief source of Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy in the middle ages and was then the most widely copied work of secular literature in Europe. It is also of importance for incorporating large parts of Plato's Timaeus. HC 3388*; GW 4559; BMC II 440; BSB-Ink. B-609; Bod-inc. B-400; CIBN B-585; Goff B-799; ISTC ib00799000.
Chancery quarto (214 x 147mm). 174 leaves, with final blank. Initials, paragraph marks and some capital strokes in red (light dust-soiling on title, single wormhole in first few quires, occasional faint spotting). Contemporary Germanic blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards tooled with ‘maria’ rosettes and undulating fillets, single fore-edge clasp, title label on upper cover, index tabs, manuscript fragments from a 12th-century German noted missal on vellum as spine liner (a little darkened). Provenance: unlocalised convent of St. Peter, possibly at Salzburg (title inscription).
De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 8 June 1495.
A fine copy of the fourth Koberger edition. The Consolation of Philosophy was a chief source of Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy in the middle ages and was then the most widely copied work of secular literature in Europe. It is also of importance for incorporating large parts of Plato's Timaeus. HC 3388*; GW 4559; BMC II 440; BSB-Ink. B-609; Bod-inc. B-400; CIBN B-585; Goff B-799; ISTC ib00799000.
Chancery quarto (214 x 147mm). 174 leaves, with final blank. Initials, paragraph marks and some capital strokes in red (light dust-soiling on title, single wormhole in first few quires, occasional faint spotting). Contemporary Germanic blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards tooled with ‘maria’ rosettes and undulating fillets, single fore-edge clasp, title label on upper cover, index tabs, manuscript fragments from a 12th-century German noted missal on vellum as spine liner (a little darkened). Provenance: unlocalised convent of St. Peter, possibly at Salzburg (title inscription).
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