tib00769000

Text-inc Id:

tib00769000

Bod-inc Id:

B-388

Headings:

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus De consolatione philosophiae.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. See B‑382.
2. [f8r] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Hic mea de prora in littus iactetur apertum | Anchora parua, cadant ducentia vela faselum'; 2 hexameters.

Imprint:

[Basel: Michael Wenssler, not after 1473]. Folio. BMC dates to [not after 1474].

Collation:

[a b¹⁰ c–f⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00769000 GW 4514; H *3355; Goff B‑769; BMC III 719; Pr 7467; CIBN B‑560; Sack, Freiburg, 709; Sheppard 2311-12. LCN: 13960285

Copies:

1. B-388(1) First copy The last letter in both lines of the colophon is not printed. Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) calf with gold-tooled spine. Size: 282 × 203 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 278 × 191 mm. Initials are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: Jacobus Bobhart Schürz (fl. 1471?); faded inscription on [a1r]: ‘Sum Jacobi Bobhart nuncupati Schürz I.V.D. Comitis Palatini Cæsariensis'. Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp on front endleaf and purchase price of £1. 1. 0; see Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 1029. Purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1834), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.30.
2. B-388(2) Second copy Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 282 × 214 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 273 × 199 mm. Early marginal and interlinear notes. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. Provenance: Paulus Sawrer de Erding (fl. 1473); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Boecius de consolatione philosophie fratris Pauli Sawrer de Erding ordinis Predicatorum sacre theologie licentiatus . . . et ordinis Bababerg' 1473 73 2'. ‘H 19 1824932' in an early hand on [a1r]. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); manuscript bibliographical note, apparently on this copy, pasted to pastedown. Purchased for £8. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1826), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.25.