Accession number
PML 16226
Creator
Boethius, -524.
Object title
Anitẏ Manlẏ Torquati Seuerini Boetẏ ordinarẏ patritẏ iuri exconsulis de consolatione philosophie.
Published
Nurembergensis : Antonius Coburger, Anno domini M.CCCC.lxxiij. xxiiij. mensis Julẏ [24 July 1473].
Description
[100, 100] leaves ; 40 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [2]/1r: Anitẏ Manlẏ Torquati Seuerini Boetẏ ordinarẏ patritẏ iuri exconsulis de consolatione philosophie liber primus incipit. Metrum primum eroicum elegiacum.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [22]/4v: Hic liber Beocii de [con]solatione philosophie in textu latina alemanica[que] lingua refertus ac translat[us] vna cu[m] apparatu & expositione beati Thome de aquino ordinis predicatorum finit feliciter. Anno domini M.CCCC.lxxiij. xxiiij. mensis Julẏ. Condidit hoc Civis alu[m]nis Nurembergensis Opus arte sua Antonius Coburger.
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2⁸ 3-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁸; 12-17¹⁰ 18⁶ 19-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22⁶]: 200 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [22]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
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).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.9 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/1 and [22]/5-6 (blanks); bottom margin of leaf [2]/1 cut away and repaired.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [22]/4v: Hic liber Beocii de [con]solatione philosophie in textu latina alemanica[que] lingua refertus ac translat[us] vna cu[m] apparatu & expositione beati Thome de aquino ordinis predicatorum finit feliciter. Anno domini M.CCCC.lxxiij. xxiiij. mensis Julẏ. Condidit hoc Civis alu[m]nis Nurembergensis Opus arte sua Antonius Coburger.
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2⁸ 3-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁸; 12-17¹⁰ 18⁶ 19-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22⁶]: 200 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [22]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
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).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.9 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/1 and [22]/5-6 (blanks); bottom margin of leaf [2]/1 cut away and repaired.
Binding
20th-century half brown goatskin, with brown cloth sides, over paper boards (40 x 28.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports (similar to bindings produced for Morgan by Jas. MacDonald Co. in New York, see PML 21240). Plain brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative enbands; figural gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks; illuminated initial with painted foliate border and flourished byzants (leaf [2]/1r); part II with red/blue initial with penword decoration (leaf [12]/1r). Annotations: Contemporary Latin marginal notations in at least two hands throughout text, including extensive interlinear notes in Latin text.
Provenance
Ágoston József, library stamp: "Kis-jókai Agoston Jozsef könyvtárából Budapesten" (front endleaf 2 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, Sept. 1909.
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