Boethius: Opera.
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1497/98-99.
Fol. Part I: π2 a-z8 ⁊8 ↄ10. [2], 1-‘201’ [i.e. 202] leaves. Part II: π2 a-i8. [2], 1-‘69’ [i.e. 71], [1] leaves. Part III: π4 a-k8 l-m6. [4], 1-92 leaves. Many errors in foliation throughout. Woodcut initials and diagrams; woodcut printer’s device at end of part II.
ISTC ib00768000; GW 4512; Goff B768; BMC V 351 (IB. 21143) + V 350 (IB. 21129); Bod-inc B-383; CIBN B-558; BSB-Ink B-619.
Part I undated; part II dated 8 July 1499; part III dated 10 Feb. 1497/9; the third part first issued separately. BMC treats in two parts. Part I contains the minor philosophical and theological works; part II the mathematical works; part III De consolatione philosophiae and [Pseudo-] Boethius De disciplina scholarium with commentary by [Pseudo-] Thomas Aquinas (Thomas Waleys?). The register for all three parts is found on the recto of the last leaf in part III.
| GIP number: | B85 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Mu6-x.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Unidentified owner: traces of an illegible, oval-shaped early library stamp on π1v of Part I. David Murray (1842-1928), Glasgow lawyer, antiquary and bibliographer: bookplate on front pastedown; source unknown. University of Glasgow: Murray library donation, 1927. |
| Binding: | 19th/20th-century dark blue goatskin; covers decorated with a single gold fillet forming three concentric rectangles; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 308 x 221 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 301 x 209 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in various 16th-century hands - more frequently in parts I and III, rarely in part II; 19th/20th-century pencil number “126” on front pastedown. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting π2 of part I containing the Tabula. |
