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tib00778000
- Text-inc Id:
- tib00778000
- Bod-inc Id:
- B-395
- Headings:
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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus
De consolatione philosophiae.
- Analysis of content:
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a2r ‘Tabula'.
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b1r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione phiosophiae.] See B‑382.
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b3v Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. See B‑382.
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b3v Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] See B‑382.
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[et5r] ‘Compendiosa succinctaque resumptio'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus liber habet septem metra et sex prosas . . .’
- Imprint:
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Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1484. Folio.
- Collation:
- a–z8 [et] [con]6.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib00778000
GW 4534;
HC 3377;
Goff B‑778;
BMC IX 142;
Pr 9234;
Campbell 307 = 308; HPT II 436; ILC 415; Oates 3714; Rhodes, 396; Sheppard 7093.
LCN: 13961707
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B-395(1)
Copy
Binding: Contemporary Belgian(?) calf over wooden boards. Triple fillets form a border, a double intersecting frame, and divide the inner rectangle into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments. Two catches lost: holes repaired; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head (repaired) and middle of the lower cover. Contemporary manuscript label on head of the upper cover; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 300 × 220 × 50 mm.
Size of leaf: 291 × 193 mm.
On b1r a ten-line initial ‘P' is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, with infill of reserved white stylized mayflowers, and extensions into the margin and guttering, all touched with green; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Michael Brant (fifteenth/sixteenth century); signature on [con6v]: ‘Michaelis Brant/ Flandri Axellani'.
Louvain, Brabant, Pédagogie du Porc; demolished 1807; inscription on a2r: ‘Bibliothece Pedagogii Porcensis'.
Purchased from [Richard] Baynes, Catalogue (1832), no. 3910; for £2. 0. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 343; Books Purchased (1832), 3.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: L 6.3 Art.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 4.29.
