Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae.
(With commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Add: Resumptio compendiosa Consolationis.
Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1484.
Fol. a-z8 [et]6 [con]6. [196] leaves, the first and last blank.
ISTC ib00778000; Goff B778; BMC IX 142; Bod-inc B-395; GW 4534.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Bifolium o4.5 misbound before o3.6. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Thomas Molyneux (17th century): signature on b1r “Tho: Molyneux”; initials “T: M:” on a2r; on detached fragment of front free endpaper a note “14to die Sept: 1680.” and below colophon “N.B. Liber hic Impressus est 36. annis post artis Typographicae Inventionem” - both notes probably by Molyneux. Thomas Patrick Young (1727-1778), D.D., F.S.A., of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge: armorial bookplate (Franks 32933). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ah.4.1”. |
| Binding: | Low Countries, 17th-century calf; covers decorated with a double blind-fillet frame with a blind floral tool at inner corners; rear free endpaper has arms of Amsterdam watermark; rebacked in the 19th or 20th century; original pastedowns remain. Size: 272 x 206 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 267 x 203 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal “nota” marks; annotations in a late 15th/early 16th-century hand on the lower margins of o2v, o3v, o5v indicate the misplacement of leaves in gathering o (noted above) is of an early date; on rear pastedown the number “IIII X”; on rear free endpaper a price “3gl. 10st.” |
| Decoration: | Eight-line initial “P” on b1r supplied in red with reserved white; similar initials at the beginning of each book; other initials supplied in red throughout (a few with marginal pen-flourishing); paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
