Boetii viri celeberrimi de consolatione Philosophie liber
Subtitle: cu[m] optimo commento beati Thome.
Contributors: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.; Thomas, Waleys, ca. 1287-1350?; Gran, Henri, d. 1527, printer.; Lieber, Ernst, 1838-1902, former owner.; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [Heinrich Gran]
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Impressi imperiali in oppido Hagenaw
Language: lat
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Philosophy and religion -- Early works to 1800.; Happiness -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: The commentary, originally ascribed to Thomas Aquinas, is now attributed to Thomas Wallensis.
Place of publication and date from colophon; printer from Goff.
Imprint year spelt out in colophon (leaf F3v): ... Millesimo q[ua]dringentesimo nonagesimo primo ...
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ d-e⁸ f⁴ g-h⁸ i⁴ k-l⁸ m⁴ n-o⁸ p⁴ q-r⁸ s⁴ t-v⁸ x⁴ y-z⁸ [et]⁴ A-B⁸ C⁴ D-E⁸ F⁴.
Typographically distinguished text surrounded on 3 sides by commentary.
"Compendiosa succinctaq[ue] resumptio dicto[rum] in libros boetij de consolatione philosophie": leaves E4v-E5.
Includes index.
LC copy has one initial in red and one initial in red and blue, with pen-drawn decoration. Has (16th cent.?) inscription: Pro Franciscanis de obseru[anti]a Tabernensib[us] [Saverne, Alsace]. Has dealer's (J. Halle, Munich, Katalog XLV) description mounted on front pastedown. Final blank wanting.
With: [Ars dictandi (Ut minores)]. Ut minores et nouelli faciliore[m] capia[n]t mod[um] dictandi : p[rese]ns appendiolu[m] in q[u]o varios mod[o]s scri[ben]di ... me[n]te diligenti p[er]legant ... [ca. 1500] ; manuscript.
LC copy has armorial ink stamp: Dr. Ernst Lieber, Camberg.
Goff B-791
Hain 3383
GW 4549
BM 15th cent., III, p. 682 (IA. 13712)