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tib00794000
- Text-inc Id:
- tib00794000
- Bod-inc Id:
- B-399
- Headings:
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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus
De consolatione philosophiae.
- Analysis of content:
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[*1r] [Title-page.]
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[*1v] ‘Tabula'.
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a1r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] See B‑382.
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a3r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. See B‑382.
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a3r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] See B‑382.
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D1r ‘Compendiosa succinctaque resumptio'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus liber habet septem metra et sex prosas . . .’
- Imprint:
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Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 19 Mar. 1491. 4°.
- Collation:
- [*]6 a8 b–r6 s4 t–z [et] A–D6. Third leaf only of gathering [*] numbered.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib00794000
GW 4552;
C 1111;
Goff B‑794;
BMC IX 67;
Pr 9053;
Campbell 313; CIBN B‑583; HPT II 412; ILC 418; Oates 3539; Polain 736; Rhodes 398; Sheppard 6968.
LCN: 13959665
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B-399(1)
Copy
Variant on D1r, l. 3: ‘ . . . conſoſolatione', as Polain, but not BMC.
Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English calf, with double and triple gold-tooled fillets forming a border and a frame, decorated with a gold-tooled fleuron at each corner; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 210 × 150 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 138 mm.
Early marginal notes and pointing hands in black ink. On D6r–v an objection in English in a sixteenth-century hand, to Thomas Pounde's Six reasons of 1580, defending the authority of the Roman Catholic church with regard to the interpretation of scripture; cf. Robert Crowley, An aunswer to sixe reasons . . . London, 1581 (STC 6075).
Provenance: Thomas Bull (sixteenth century); signatures on [*]1r and note ‘pretium 3s -0'; perhaps to be identified with Thomas Bull (†1546).
Jo[hn] Barber (sixteenth century); signature on [*]1r; perhaps to be identified with John Barber (Pryor) (†1549).
Date of acquisition unknown; probably acquired after 1738; not in Fysher, Catalogus; although the shelfmark may indicate an earlier date of acquisition, it was possibly acquired after 1847 and before c.1892; not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.10.
