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De consolatione philosophie.

Accession number
PML 21240
Creator
Boethius, -524.
Object title

De consolatione philosophie.

Published

Gheprendt te Ghend : by my Arend de Keysere, den derden dach in Mey ... duust vierhondert viue [3 May 1485].

Description

[306] leaves ; 38 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf V7v: Hier endt/ dat weerdich bouc/ boecius de consolatione philosophie/ te[n] twoste leeringhe ende conworte aller memschen [sic] Gheprendt te Ghend by my Arend de Keysere/ den derden dach in Mey. Int iaer ons heeren duust vierhondert viue ende tachten tich. Deo Gracias. [Printer's mark]
Printed in de Keysere's types 2:125G and 3A:99G.
Signatures: a-b⁶; a-z [et]⁸; A-K M⁸ ²M⁸ N-R⁸ S-T⁶ V⁸: 360 leaves, leaves a1, b6, ²a1 and V8 blank; quire [L] signed M.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Latin text with a Dutch translation and commentary.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.3 x 25.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding
20th-century half brown goatskin, with brown cloth sides, over paper boards (37.5 x 28 cm), sewn on 4 supports (similar to bindings produced for Morgan by Jas. MacDonald Co. in New York, see PML 16226). Plain, brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative, stuck-on endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: De consolatione philosophiae. In Latin and Flemish
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Low countries rubrication, red/blue primary initials and red initials; illustrations at book incipits unrealized. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text; a few manicules throughout. Manuscript roman numeral foliation. Drawing of a face (leaf k8v).
Provenance
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1967-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Nov. 1920.
Classification
Century
Department