Bod-Inc: B-397
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus
De consolatione philosophiae, et al.
Analysis of Content
Part I.
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*2r] ‘Tabula'.
a1r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] See B‑382.
a2v Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. See B‑382.
a2v Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] See B‑382.
n8r [First colophon.]
Part II.
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v ‘Summarium dicendorum in sequenti libro'.
A3r Gerson, Johannes: [Preface to De consolatione theologiae.] ed. Glorieux IX no. 449, 185.
A3r Gerson, Johannes: [De consolatione theologie (verse)]. ed. Glorieux IV no. 189, 163-4.
A4v Gerson, Johannes: De consolatione theologiae (prose). ed. Glorieux IX no. 449, 186-245.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne]: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1488. Folio.
Remarks: In two parts dated: (I) 27 Jan. 1488; (II) 1488.
Collation
Collation: Part I: [*]6 a–c8 d6 e–h8 i6 k–n6.8; part II: A–C8.
Remarks: Gathering [*] numbered. Gathering A is signed as follows: A1 unsigned, A2 signed Aij, A3 aiij, A4 aiiij, and A5 av.
References
ISTC: ib00783000
GW: GW 4540;
Hain: HC *3380;
Goff: Goff B‑783;
Proctor: Pr 1074;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑604; CIBN B‑577; Sack, Freiburg, 715; Sheppard 815; Voulliéme, Köln, 262.
LCN: 13961684
Copies
Copy number: B-397(1)
Wanting the blank leaf C8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Leather index tabs.
Size: 297 × 222 × 28 mm.
Size of leaf: 286 × 209 mm.
Manuscript additions, in the contemporary hand of the Trier inscription, to the title-page.
Initials are supplied in red or blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Paulus Merensis (sixteenth century); signature on [*]1r and on recto of the back endleaf. Trier, North Rhine-Westphalia, Benedictines, S. Eucharius-Matthias, but for use of Benedictine priory of Vilmar an der Lahn; inscription in a sixteenth-century hand on [*]1r: ‘Codex monasterii S. Mathie apostoli extra muros Treuire ad vsum pastorie Vilmariensis'. Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse, Observant Franciscans, 1714; inscription on [*]2r: ‘Bibliothecæ Limburgensis, 1714'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label: sale (1835), lot 911. Purchased for £0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 4.30.
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