Boetij viri celeberrimi de [con]solatio[n]e phylosophie liber cu[m] optimo [com]me[n]to beati Thome. Colonia.

Accession number: 
PML 79129
Author: 
Boethius, -524.
Published: 
In Colonia : per Heinricum Quentell, Millesimo.cccc xcvij pridie kalendas Ianuarij [31 December 1497].
Description: 
[192] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf F4r: Libri quinq[ue] de consolatione philosophie Boetij Rhomani consultis ac oratioris splendissimi, una cum commentaria editione, per Henricum Quentell in Colonia diligenter elaborati expliciunt. Anno gratie Millesimo.cccc xcvij pridie kalendas Ianuarij.
The date "pridie kalendas Januarii [1497]" is sometimes interpreted as referring to the end of 1496.
Printed in Quentell's types 6:63G, 7:80G, and 10:155G.
Signatures: a⁶; A⁶ ²a⁶ b-i⁶ k⁸ l-z⁶ [et]⁶ ²A⁶ B-E⁶ F⁴: 192 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
Woodcut on title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: c5-6 and e6, e6 replaced in 18th/19th-century manuscript.

Binding: 
18th-century(?) mottled calf or sheepskin over paper boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Decorative paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Sporadic contemporary rubrication, mostly unrealized. Woodcut hand colored. Annotations: Sporadic contemporary marginal notations throughout text. Multiple unidentified annotations on title page.

Provenance: 
Unidentifiend inscription, written over an earlier one: Seminarium Sancti Ignati el P[???] (leaf a1r); unidentified (English?) gilt armorial booklabel: demi stag rampant with motto: Laboremus (front pastedown); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 67, purchased from Sotheby's London, Dec. 1935, lot 138 for £1.15.0, bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Sheepskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books