- Text-inc Id:
- tib00771500
- Headings:
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Boethius
De consolatione philosophiae. (With commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas)
- Imprint:
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[Geneva
Jean Croquet
about 1480]
f°
Precedes the Paris edition dated 1480 (Goff B772) with the same disposition of text and commentary (BMC); The commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas is in reality by Thomas Waleys
- References:
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ISTC: ib00771500
Source: Cambridge UL
- Cambridge Metadata:
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=240 13$aDe consolatione philosophiae
=245 10$aSancti thome de aquino super libris Boecii de consolatione philosophie co[m]mentum cum expositione feliciter incipit.
=260 \\$a[Geneva :$bJean Croquet,$cabout 1480].
=300 \\$a[168] leaves ;$c302 mm. (fol.)
=500 \\$aSignatures: a-x8 (a1 and x8 blank).
=500 \\$aPrecedes the Paris edition dated 1480 (Goff B772) with the same disposition of text and commentary (BMC).
=500 \\$aThe commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas is in reality by Thomas Waleys.
=500 \\$aTitle from heading on a2r.
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=510 4\$aOates (MS additions),$c2863.5
=510 4\$aBMC,$cVIII, 422
=510 4\$aGW,$c4527
=561 \\$aProvenance: Several early inscriptions at the rear. To the lower margin of x7 verso is "Iste liber [...]tus est usum fr[...] or. mi. obs[...] p[er]rdum p. in x° fr[...] Bernardinum de Cayis eiusdem or. ac provincie [...] tunc vicarium dignissimum [and in a different hand] et pertinet loco .s. Bernardini apud Caravagium". To the verso of the blank x8 is a similar inscription concerning the same individual, dated 1511. The rear pastedown (taken from a sixteenth-century manuscript) is inscribed, in a sixteenth-century hand, "Quoniam dominus sic voluit ut adimpleanus scripturas Thomas R." Bought at Sotheby's (lot 106) on 23rd May 1960. A letter concerning this sale from J. O. T. Howard of Quaritch to J. C. T. Oates of the Library (dated 16th May 1960), is slipped in.$5UkCU
=563 \\$aBinding: Contemporary bevelled wooden boards with a MS vellum spine, the boards lines with pieces from a MS nominal roll, giving short physical descriptions opposite each name. Once clasped in the middle of the boards (i.e. top and bottom) as well as at the foredge; now only part of the foredge clasp remains.$5UkCU
=599 \\$aIn the British Library copy, e4 is printed d, and corrected in manuscript; in this copy, it is printed correctly.$5UkCU
=599 \\$aDecoration: Marginal annotations in two Italic hands of the sixteenth-century, with some maniculae. Some paragraph marks in red at the beginning.$5UkCU
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=655 \7$aManuscript waste (Binding)$2rbbin
=700 1\$aCroquet, Jean,$ebinder.
=700 1\$aThomas,$cAquinas, Saint,$d1225?-1274,$ecommentator.
=710 2\$aQuaritch, firm, booksellers, London.$5UkCU
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