Auicij [i.e. Anicij] Torquati Seuerini Boecij viri nominis celebritate q[uem?] memorandi textus De p[hilosoph]ie [con]solac[i]one : cu[m] edic[i]one [com]mentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis p[re]dicato[rum].
Imprint:
Nuremberg: Antonij Coburgers ciuis inclite Nurnbergensiu[m] vrbis industria fabrefactus finit feliciter, anno 1476 p[ri]die idus Noue[m]bris [12 Nov.]
Comments
and Notes:
Commentary attributed to Thomas, Wallensis, also known as the Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas, by GW.
Title and imprint from colophon (p. [278]).
Tabula has caption title (p. [3]), which reads: Incipit Tabula sup[er] libris Boecij De consolatione philosophie secundum ordinem alphabeti.
Text has caption title (p. [13]), which reads: Auicij [i.e. Anicij] Manlij Torquati Seuerini Boecij ordinarij patricij viri exconsulis De consolatione philosophie liber primus[-quintus] incipit metrum primum heroicum elegiacum.
Commentary has caption title (p. [83]), which reads: Sancti Thome de Aquino sup[er] libris Boecij De consolatione philosophie comentum cum expositione feliciter incipit.
Leaves printed on both sides; 34 lines of text, 47 lines of commentary per page.
Unsigned gatherings.
Spaces for initials.
The Tabula and the commentary are printed in double columns.
Pages [1-2], [79-82], [211-212] and [279-280] are blank.
Includes index.
Rubricated throughout in red and blue inks.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Printed booksellers' catalog descriptions of this copy [?] are pasted on front free endpapers.
Eighteenth-century full leather binding; gilt-tooled covers and spine; raised bands; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
B659 .C7A92 1476
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIB00771000-B
B-0771
Author:
Boethius, d. 524
Short
Title:
De consolatione philosophiae
(1495)
Title:
Boetius De [con]solatio[n]e philosophie cum co[m]me[n]to angelici doctoris Thome de Aquino.
Imprint:
Nuremberg: Anthonij Kobergers ciuis inclite Nurnbergensi u vrbis industria fabrefactus ..., 1495, die 8 mensis Iunij.
Comments
and Notes:
Commentary has also been attributed to Thomas Waleys.
Imprint from colophon.
Leaf B missigned B .
Final blank leaf wanting.
Ms. rubrication and marginalia.
