tib00818000

Text-inc Id:

tib00818000

Bod-inc Id:

B-407

Headings:

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus De consolatione philosophiae [Castilian].

Analysis of content:

1. Part I.
2. a1r [Title-page.]
3. a2r Ginebreda, Antoni: ‘Prologo' [Castilian]. Incipit: ‘[P]orque el libro de Boecio, De consolacion, es muy necessario a recrear los omnes que son en tribulacion . . .’
4. a3v ‘Tabla' [an abbreviated Castilian version of the ‘Compendiosa recensio']. Incipit: ‘En el primero metro tracta so qual forma Boecio llora su trabajo . . .’
5. a7r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [Castilian]. Translated from Antoni Ginebreda's Catalan version. Incipit: ‘[L]o cuytado que solia ser en grant estudio . . .’ On the background and sources of this translation, see Ronald G. Keightley, ‘Boethius in Spain: A Classified Checklist of Early Translations', in The Medieval Boethius: Studies in the Vernacular Translations of ‘De consolatione philosophiae’, ed. A. J. Minnis (Cambridge, 1987), 169-87, at 175-81; and Kaeppeli I 113 no. 292.
6. g4v [First colophon.]
7. Part II.
8. A1r [Jacobo de Benavente]: Vergel de consolación. Incipit: ‘[A]si como dize el apostol sant Pedro los omnes . . .’
9. E5v [Second colophon.]

Imprint:

Seville: Meinardus Ungut and Stanislaus Polonus, 1497. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 18 Feb. 1497; (II) 21 Feb. 1497.

Collation:

Part I: a–e⁸ f⁶ g⁴; part II: A B⁸ C–E⁶. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00818000 GW 4584; H 3366; C 5979 (II) = 5980 (II); Goff B‑818; Pr 9540; Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 59 (incl. 669); Sheppard 7310; Vindel, Arte, V 265: 97. LCN: 13959567

Copies:

1. B-407(1) Copy Wanting E6, containing the table. Binding: Old Spanish parchment, with two gold-tooled rosettes, a gold-tooled fleuron at each corner. Title on fore-edge and on spine in black ink. Manuscript text in Spanish on the lower cover. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 275 × 195 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 270 × 192 mm. Note marks in margins in black ink. Provenance: Purchased at the anonymous sale 13 Jan. 1825, lot 206 for £9; see Books Purchased (1825), 5. ‘Purch'd 1825' on the title-page, in the hand of Bandinel. SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.3.