Anitii Mallii Seuerini Boetii viri clarissimi Topicorum liber Primus..
Boethius,-524.
Servius, Oliverius,active 1481?-1484,publisher.
Schoemberger, Johannes,printer.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.Topica.
Boethius,-524.In Ciceronis Topica commentum.
Freebairn, Robert,-1747,bookseller.StEdNL
[Rome] : Impressum. per Dominum Oliuerium Seruium. de Tholentino.,
anno domini. Millesimoquadringentesimooctuagesimoquarto. die uero Vigesima me[n]sis Februarii. [20 February 1484]
Caption title.
Imprint from colophon (leaf [r3]v): Anitii Manlii Seuerini Boetii V.C. & Illustris: ex consulum ordine, Comentarium, In Martii Tullii Ciceronis, Librum Topicorum: Explicitum & impressum, per Dominum Oliuerium Seruium, de Tholentino. Anno domini, Millesimoquadringentesimooctuagesimoquarto, die uero Vigesima me[n]sis Februarii.
Printer recorded as: Johannes Schoemberger for Servius--BMC IV 132.
With Cicero's Topica (begins leaf [e1]) and Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica commentum (begins leaf [f4]v).
Initial spaces, some with printed guide-letters, with spaces for Greek.
Large woodcut initials on leaf [e]1r, [f4]v and [k5]r.
Signatures: [a-d⁸ e⁶ f-l⁸ m-q⁶ r⁴].
With an initial blank leaf.
ISTC
USTC
BM 15th cent.
Goff
GW
St Andrews University Library Catalogue of Incunabula (1956),
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Bought by the Advocates Library from Robert Freebairn for £1-0-0, paid 18 March 1736.
18th-century red morocco with gilt tooled borders and central motif on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine with six raised bands, gilt rolled board edges, speckled edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Aristotle.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Topic (Philosophy)
Italy Rome.