tib00815000

Text-inc Id:

tib00815000

Bod-inc Id:

B-406

Headings:

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus De consolatione philosophiae [German] Der Trost der Weisheit.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v [Preface.] Incipit: ‘In disem Büch das do genant würt Boecius von dem Trost der Weisheyt . . .’
3. a2r [Introduction to De consolatione philosophiae [German]]. ‘Der Trost der Weisheit'. Incipit: ‘[H]ie hebt sich an das Büch von dem Trost der Weisheit des Maisters Boecii . . .’
4. a3r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [German]. Incipit: ‘[D]ie gedicht die ich etwan mit wunsamen fleis . . .’ See B‑403.

Imprint:

Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 31 Aug. 1500. 4°. Worstbrock dates to 29 Aug.

Collation:

a–d⁸ e⁸⁺¹ f–m⁸ n o⁶. Nine woodcuts: see Schramm XX pls 2291 (used three times), 2292-4, 2296 (used three times).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00815000 GW 4575; HC *3359; Goff B‑815; BMC I 167; Pr 763; BSB‑Ink B‑617; Sack, Freiburg, 723; Charles Schmidt, Martin and Jean Schott, Répertoire bibliographique strasbourgeois, 2 (Strasbourg, 1893), 2; Schramm XX p. 30; Schreiber V 3518; Sheppard 555; Worstbrock, Antikerezeption, no. 42. LCN: 13959658

Copies:

1. B-406(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Aelius Donatus, Ars minor, with interlinear glosses in German. [Augsburg]: J[ohann] S[chönsperger], 1497 (D‑147). Leaf apparently removed between e3 and e4. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, bound for the Bodleian Library; with leather index tabs and marbled pastedowns. Size: 207 × 147 × 26 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 130 mm. Occasional early notes. On old endleaves, bound after item 1: on the recto, a list of virtues and vices in German; on the verso, the Lord's Prayer, ‘Ave Maria' and Creed in German, in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Provenance of item 1: Casparus Degemair (sixteenth/seventeenth century); signature on a1r. Purchased for £0. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1850), 7. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.64(1).