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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus

De consolatione philosophiae [Castilian].

 

Analysis of Content

Part I.

a1r [Title-page.]

a2r Ginebreda, Antoni: ‘Prologo' [Castilian]. Incipit: ‘[P]orque el libro de Boecio, De consolacion, es muy necessario a recrear los omnes que son en tribulacion . . .’

a3v ‘Tabla' [an abbreviated Castilian version of the ‘Compendiosa recensio']. Incipit: ‘En el primero metro tracta so qual forma Boecio llora su trabajo . . .’

a7r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [Castilian]. Translated from Antoni Ginebreda's Catalan version. Incipit: ‘[L]o cuytado que solia ser en grant estudio . . .’ On the background and sources of this translation, see Ronald G. Keightley, ‘Boethius in Spain: A Classified Checklist of Early Translations', in The Medieval Boethius: Studies in the Vernacular Translations of ‘De consolatione philosophiae’, ed. A. J. Minnis (Cambridge, 1987), 169-87, at 175-81; and Kaeppeli I 113 no. 292.

g4v [First colophon.]

Part II.

A1r [Jacobo de Benavente]: Vergel de consolación. Incipit: ‘[A]si como dize el apostol sant Pedro los omnes . . .’

E5v [Second colophon.]

Imprint

Imprint: Seville: Meinardus Ungut and Stanislaus Polonus, 1497. Folio.

Remarks: In two parts, dated: (I) 18 Feb. 1497; (II) 21 Feb. 1497.

Collation

Collation: Part I: a–e⁸ f⁶ g⁴; part II: A B⁸ C–E⁶.

Illustrations: Woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: ib00818000

GW: GW 4584;

Hain: H 3366; C 5979 (II) = 5980 (II);

Goff: Goff B‑818;

Proctor: Pr 9540;

Others: Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 59 (incl. 669); Sheppard 7310; Vindel, Arte, V 265: 97.

LCN: 13959567

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