Bod-Inc: B-384
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus
De consolatione philosophiae.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] ‘Prohemium'. See B‑382.
a3v Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] See B‑382.
a3v Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. See B‑382.
r1r ‘Tabula'.
A1r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De disciplina scholarium.] ‘Prohemium'. See B‑382.
A2r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Commentary on De disciplina scholarium.] See B‑382.
A2r Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. See B‑382.
F8v [Conradus(?): Verse.] See B‑382.
Imprint
Imprint: [Lyons: Jacques Maillet] for Johannes Fabri, [c.1496]. 4°.
Remarks: GW assigns the printing to Johannes Fabri, but the types are Maillet's (see below).
Collation
Collation: Part I: a–p8 q r6; part II: A–F8.
Types: Types: 81 G and 70 G, as used in Ovidius, Metamorphoses, 26 Feb. 1497 (Bod-inc. O‑078), signed by Maillet; for a note on these types see BMC VIII 303.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ib00799700
GW: GW 4560;
Proctor: Pr 8634;
Others: Sheppard 6682.
LCN: 13960294
Copies
Copy number: B-384(1)
For this copy see Coates–Jensen 246, no. 5. Gathering r bound after gathering F.
Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; triple fillets form a border; rebacked. ‘Edward Gwynn' stamped in gold on the upper cover.
Size: 233 × 168 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 226 × 152 mm.
Occasional sixteenth-century marginal notes, probably in two or more English hands. Fragment of paper pasted to upper pastedown: ‘John Faringdon | Mar 28 1610 | 3 books'.
Provenance: William Godmersham (fl. 1469-1510); see Ker, Medieval Libraries, 47, 244; inscription on a1r: ‘Liber fratris Willelmi Godmersham monachi Sancti Augustini Cant.' Edward Gwynn († in or shortly after 1645); name stamped on the upper cover. John Selden (1584-1654); Greek motto on a1r; see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44: ‘Boethius Severinus. De consolatione Philosophiæ et de disciplina scholarum cum commentis St Thomæ'. Presented in 1659.
SHELFMARK: 4° B 2 Art. Seld.
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