[De consolatione philosophiae]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [De consolatione philosophiae]
Other titles: De consolatione philosophiae
Classmark: BC Incunabula/BOE
Creator(s): Boethius (524)
Additional creator(s): Thomas Waleys (1287-1350?) (Commentator); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Thomas; Koberger, Anton; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Condidit hoc Ciuis alu[m]nis Nurembergensis Opus arte sua Antonius Coburger; Anton Koberger
Publication city: [Nuremberg]
Date(s): Anno domini M.CCCC.lxiij.xxiiij.mensis July. [24 July 1473]
Language: German
Size and medium: [201] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39494
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007738529705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf 198v reads: Hic liber Boecii de [con]solatione philosophie in textu latina alemanicaq[ue] lingua refertus ac translatu[m] vna cum apparatu & expositione beati Thome de aquino ordinis predicatorum finit feliciter. Anno domini M.CCCC.lxiij.xxiiij.mensis July. Condidit hoc Cuius alu[m]nis Nurembergensis arte sua Antonius Coburger.
With the commentary of Thomas Waleys, erroneously attributed to Thomas Aquinas (GW). The attribution of the translation to Peter von Kastel is now confutable (cf Verfasserlexikon I, p. 921 in CIBN).
Printed with 23 lines of Latin text and 46 lines of German text to a full page.
Commentary printed in two columns with 47 lines to a full column.
No signatures.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Leaves 82, 98-100, 101, 166 and 200 are blank.
Capital strokes supplied in red.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00816000.
Indexed in: Goff B816; H 3398; Pell 2551; CIBN B-592; Delisle 292; Polain(B) 750; IDL 905; IGI 1847; IBP 1113; Sajó-Soltész 718; Madsen 776; Nentwig 87; Voull(B) 1640; Borm 533; Mittler-Kind 240; Sheppard 1427; Pr 1966; BMC II 412; BSB-Ink B-593; GW 4573.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in ink manuscript to the Latin text, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
On leaf 8r, the first page of the parallel text, are two highly decorated initials, one in blue and white, the other in green and white, against chased burnished gold backgrounds. An ornate border of stylised foliage, floral motifs and scrolls in blue, green, red and pink, highlighted with gold, extends down the inner margin and along the top and bottom of the page.
On leaf 102r, the start of the commentary, the major inital is decorated in red and blue ink and is surrounded with pen ornament in green and purple which extends down the inner margin.
Major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Paragraph markers and underlinings supplied in red and blue.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century German binding of half calf and brown paper over pasteboard. The paper on the covers has been surface-coated and sprinkled with black ink. The leaf edges are sprinkled red. The spine has five raised bands with blind-tooled triple fillets to either side of each. In the first panel is a paper label, much worn, with writing in ink manuscript: Boethius [...] de consolatione philosophiae cum [...] Nuremb. Ant. Koberger. 1473. The head of the spine is damaged and the endband and sewing supports are visible. The upper and lower covers have been damaged by insects and there is worm damage to the spine. Size: 398 x 292mm. Leaf size: 392 x 278mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown, pasted over the older version of his bookplate. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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