Boethius: Opera.
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1491-92.
Fol. Part I: π2 A-B6 a8 b10 c-d8 e-f6 g4 h6 i8 k-q6 r4 s-u6 uu6 uuu6 uuuu6 v8 x-y6 z8 aa-kk6 ll8. [256] leaves. Part II: π4 A8 B-P6. [96] leaves. Woodcuts; woodcut printer’s device.
Part I dated 18 Aug. 1492; part II dated 26 Mar. 1491.
ISTC ib00767000; GW 4511; Goff B767; BMC V 341 (IB. 21008), XII 25 (IB. 21007); Bod-inc B-382; CIBN B-557; BSB-Ink B-618.
| GIP number: | B84 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll E.x.52 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; Euing's inventory number "No 522" on aa1r. Glasgow, Anderson’s College: Euing bequest, 1874; with book-plate of Euing Musical Library, Anderson’s College, Glasgow, on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: ownership of Euing Musical Library transferred to University of Glasgow Library in 1936. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century parchment; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves; binder’s ticket on rear free endpaper “Bound by R. Nelson Glasgow”. Size: 295 x 210 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 290 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | Quires ii-ll have cropped marginal annotations in a humanist hand in Latin with some geometrical terms in Greek included; early annotations in Latin in two different hands in quires aa, cc, dd, hh. |
| Decoration: | Faintly printed lines of a few woodcut diagrams strengthened by pen and ink (e.g. on gg3v). |
| Imperfections: | A fragment of 68 leaves consisting only of quires aa-kk6 ll8 of Part I (with title on aa1r “Arithmetica Geometria et Musica Boetii”). |
