Lot 34
Incunabula.- Boethius (Anicius Manilus Torquatus) de Consolatione philosophica et de disciplina scolarium, 1498.
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Boethius (Anicius Manilus Torquatus Severinus) de consolatione philosophica et de disciplina scolarium, edited by Conradus Poseiaen, collation: a-m8 n6, table triple column, text and commentary double column, 101 ff. (of 102, lacking final blank), 66 lines of commentary surrounding text and headline, Gothic type, woodcut historiated initials, f4 bound before f1, water-stained, some marginal worming, marginal repairs, later vellum, spotted, folio (314 x 210mm.), [Venice], [Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus], [14 June, 1498].
⁂ The second work is pseudo-Boethius and the commentary pseudo-Thomas Aquinas.
Provenance; 'E libris Josephi H. Lupton' (ink signature to front free endpaper); E.C. Simpson (modern bookplate to front pastedown).
Literature: BMC V, 450; Goff B-804; HC 3407; Proctor 5089; GWK 4565.
Description
Boethius (Anicius Manilus Torquatus Severinus) de consolatione philosophica et de disciplina scolarium, edited by Conradus Poseiaen, collation: a-m8 n6, table triple column, text and commentary double column, 101 ff. (of 102, lacking final blank), 66 lines of commentary surrounding text and headline, Gothic type, woodcut historiated initials, f4 bound before f1, water-stained, some marginal worming, marginal repairs, later vellum, spotted, folio (314 x 210mm.), [Venice], [Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus], [14 June, 1498].
⁂ The second work is pseudo-Boethius and the commentary pseudo-Thomas Aquinas.
Provenance; 'E libris Josephi H. Lupton' (ink signature to front free endpaper); E.C. Simpson (modern bookplate to front pastedown).
Literature: BMC V, 450; Goff B-804; HC 3407; Proctor 5089; GWK 4565.
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