Boetii viri celeberrimi de consolatione Philosophie liber cu[m] optimo comme[n]to beati thome.

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Alternative Title:Incipit tabula super libros de [con]solatione phi[losophi][a]e s[e]c[undum] ordinem alphabeti.
Boecij Romani [et] oratoris celeberrimi libri de co[n]solatione philosophie [et] [com]me[n]tarius eximij preclariq[ue] doctoris sancti Thome sup[er] eosdem Incipiu[n]t feliciter.
Compendiosa succinctaq[ue] resumptio dictorum in libros Boetij de [con]solatione philosophi[a]e
De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Add: Compendiosa Consolationis resumptio.
Main Author: Boethius, -524
Other Associated Names: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274, van Breda, Jacob 1485-1519 (Printer)
Language:Latin
Published: Deventer : Jakob von Breda, 1490
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Collection:Marsh
Description
Item Description:ISTC ib00788000
No rubrication.
Tabula. 'Epilogu[m] [con]pendiosum [et] p[er]utilem totius libri. Require libri. Require in fine libri. Finit Tabula.'
Initials not filled in.
Parchment endleaves.
Fragments of manuscript stubs in Latin.
Printed fragment of Lactantius 'Divinarum Institutionum' liber primus in Gothic type in back board.
Manuscript headings.
Some annotations in Latin with underlining and passages marked in ink.
Missing last two leaves.
Previously numbered E3.3.8.
Marsh's Library stamp on half-title page.
Physical Description:4to
Published References:Oldham, Shrewsbury bindings, page 54 plate LIII; Mirjam M. Foot's The Decorated Bindings in Marsh's Library, 2004 pages 12-14.
Provenance Note:Inscriptions on half-title page in ink includes 'Wylhelmus hutton[ius] me sibi ve[n]dicat' and Marsh's Greek motto.
Binding Note:Unicorn binder, Cambridge. Brown calf over leather boards, tooled in blind to a panel design with fillets and small hand tools. Remnants of two pairs of clasps. Four spine compartments are tooled with blind lines. Edges are plain and endbands are missing. Parchment paste-down (now free) and a conjugate parchment manuscript stub at the front. Printed waste lines the lower board and there are the remnants of two parchment manuscript stubs.
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