Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. With commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas (Thomas Waleys?).
Add: Compendiosa consolationis resumptio.
Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 19 Mar. 1491.
4to. π6 a8 b-r6 s4 t-z6 [et]6 A-D6 (third leaf only of the preliminary gathering numbered). [174] leaves.
ISTC ib00794000; Goff B794; BMC IX 67; Bod-inc B-399; GW 4552.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BC14-c.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | D1r, line 3: “... conſoſolatione ...” as in Bod-inc B-399 and Polain 736, not “... conſolatione ...” as in BMC. |
| Bound with: | The first of three incunabula bound together. Bound with: (2) Boethius [pseudo-]. De disciplina scholarium. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1490; (3) Aristoteles [pseudo-]. Problemata. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1490]. |
| Provenance: | Cyriacus Trendelbach, of Ascania (Saxony), (16th/17th century): inscription on π1r (title-page) “Ciriac[us] Trendelbach de ascania”. Johannes [...] (fl. 1649): partially deleted inscription on π1r “Sum Johannis [...] 18 Maij 1649”. I.B.P.S. (second half of 17th century): initials “I B P S” and date 1668” stamped in black on front cover. Unidentified, 19th-century German bookseller: tipped onto front flyleaf is an extract (price not included) from a 19th-century German bookseller’s catalogue: item 794 listing all three works in the volume, the final item described as “Ohne Druckort und Jahr” and the binding as “Pgbd”. Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh: source unknown - but perhaps bought from the above catalogue. University of Glasgow: Hamilton collection donation, 1878. |
| Binding: | Germany, 17th-century vellum; initials “I B P S” and date “1668” stamped in black on front cover; manuscript spine titles; remains of leather tabs; dark green-edged leaves. Size: 190 x 139 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 182 x 130 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious underlining and numerous pointing hands in Tabula (gathering π) - less frequent underlining in text; erroneous headline “Quintus” on z3r corrected to “Quartus”; two biographical/bibliographical notes on π1r (title-page) in different hands. |
| Decoration: | Small marginal pen-and-ink drawings in Tabula e.g. St George and dragon, head of an ass, personification of the winds. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
