Bod-Inc: B-388
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus
De consolatione philosophiae.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. See B‑382.
[f8r] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Hic mea de prora in littus iactetur apertum | Anchora parua, cadant ducentia vela faselum'; 2 hexameters.
Imprint
Imprint: [Basel: Michael Wenssler, not after 1473]. Folio.
Remarks: BMC dates to [not after 1474].
Collation
Collation: [a b10 c–f8].
References
ISTC: ib00769000
GW: GW 4514;
Hain: H *3355;
Goff: Goff B‑769;
BMC: BMC III 719;
Proctor: Pr 7467;
Others: CIBN B‑560; Sack, Freiburg, 709; Sheppard 2311-12.
LCN: 13960285
Copies
Copy number: B-388(1)
The last letter in both lines of the colophon is not printed.
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) calf with gold-tooled spine.
Size: 282 × 203 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 278 × 191 mm.
Initials are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Jacobus Bobhart Schürz (fl. 1471?); faded inscription on [a1r]: ‘Sum Jacobi Bobhart nuncupati Schürz I.V.D. Comitis Palatini Cæsariensis'. Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp on front endleaf and purchase price of £1. 1. 0; see Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 1029. Purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1834), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.30.
Copy number: B-388(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 282 × 214 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 273 × 199 mm.
Early marginal and interlinear notes.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Paulus Sawrer de Erding (fl. 1473); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Boecius de consolatione philosophie fratris Pauli Sawrer de Erding ordinis Predicatorum sacre theologie licentiatus . . . et ordinis Bababerg' 1473 73 2'. ‘H 19 1824932' in an early hand on [a1r]. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); manuscript bibliographical note, apparently on this copy, pasted to pastedown. Purchased for £8. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1826), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.25.
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