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Title

[Opera]

Author

Boethius, -524.

Publication

[Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 10 Feb. 1498-8 July 1499]

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Additional Authors

• Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
• Thomas, Waleys, approximately 1287-1350?

Description

3 v. in 1. diagrs.; 32.5 cm. (fol.)

Note

• [Vol. 1] l. 1a: Hec sunt opera Boetii ...
• [Vol. 1] f. 201a [i.e. 202a]: ... incõmutabilis / bonitas atq[ue] omnium bonorum cãperscribit.
• [Vol. 2] l. 1a: De Arithmetica ... / ... / De Musica ... / De Geometria ... / De philosophie consolatione ... / ... / De scholariũ disciplina ...
• Colophon [v. 2] f. 69b [i.e. 71b]: Uenetiis. Jmp[r]essum ... per Joannem [et] / Grego[r]ium de grego[r]iis fratres ... / ... Anno / ... 1499. die .8. Julii ... / ... / ...
• [Vol. 3] l. 1a: Boetius de consolatione. [et] / de disciplina scholarium
• Colophon [v. 3] f. 92a: Jmp[r]essis venetiis per Joannẽ de Fo[r]liuio [et] / G[r]ego[r]iũ fratres Anno salutis.Mcccclxxxxvii / die .x.februarii.
• Gothic and Greek type (Prcotor 4555, 4559); 2 columns, 65 lines ([v. 1-2]), 70 lines ([v. 3]). With catchwords, foliation, headlines, initial indicators and spaces (on scattered leaves of [v. 3] only), historiated and ornamental initials, registers (for [v. 1-3] on last leaf of [v.2], for [v. 3] on l. 4b) and signature marks. Printer's mark on verso of last leaf of [v. 2] Scattered leaves of [v. 3] rubricated.
• Signatures: [v. 1] [*]², a-z⁸, [et]⁸, [con]¹⁰. [v. 2] [*]⁴, a-k⁸, l-m⁶.
• Collation: [v. 1] 2 p.l., 201 [i.e 202] f. Several folios wrongly numbered, and no. 199 repeated. [v.2] 2 p. l., 69 [i.e. 71] f., 1 l. Folio 71 wrongly numbered 69. [v. 3] 4 p. l., 92 f. Several folios wrongly numbered.
• The De consolatione philosophiae, separately published 10 Feb. 1497/98 but included in the register in [v. 2], is accompanied by a commentary purporting to be by St. Thomas Aquinas but now attributed to Thomas Wallensis.--cf. Mantius, Maximilianus. Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters. München, 1911. Teil 1, p. 35.

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• GW
• BMC

Call Number

*KB+ 1498 (Boethius. [Opera])

OCLC

42898994

Author

Boethius, -524.

Title

[Opera]

Imprint

[Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 10 Feb. 1498-8 July 1499]

Indexed In:

GW 4512

BMC, V, 350-351.IB.21129 and 21143

Local Note

Imperfect: [v. 2] wanting, [v. 1] slightly wormed.

With inscription: Conuentûs S. Petrj Salisburgi.

With autograph and bookplate of Otto H.F. Vollbehr.

Bound in stamped pigskin over wooden boards; with remains of metal and leather clasps, and with paper label pasted to front cover.

With this is bound his: Collected works. Latin. 1491-92. [Opera] [Venice, 1491-92] [v. 1] l. 189-256 (text corresponding to the missing v. 2 of this edition)

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Added Author

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas, Waleys, approximately 1287-1350?

Research Call Number

*KB+ 1498 (Boethius. [Opera]) Library has: v. 1, 3 only