Accession number
PML 1010
Creator
Boethius, -524.
Object title
Anicij Manlij Torquati Seuerini Boecij ordinarij patricij viri exconsulis de consolatione philosophie liber prima incipit.
Published
Nurnbergensium : Antonij Coburgers, Anno Mcccclxxvj. pridie Idus Nouembris [12 November 1476].
Description
[40, 100] leaves ; 40 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1906.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [2]/2r: Anicij Manlij Torquati Seuerini Boecij ordinarij patricij viri exconsulis de consolatione philosophie liber prima incipit. Metrum primum heroicum elegiacum.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [16]/5v: Anicij Torquati Seuerini Boecij viri nominis celebritate q[uam] memorandi: textus de ph[ilosoph]ie [con]solac[i]o[n]e [com]mentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis p[re]dicato[rum]: Anthonij Coburgers ciuis inclite Nurnbergensiu[m] vrbis industria fabrefactus finit feliciter. Anno Mcccclxxvj. p[ri]die Idus Noue[m]bris.
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰ 5⁶; 6-11¹⁰ 12⁶ 13-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16⁶]: 140 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [2]/1, [6]/1, and [16]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
The commentary is ascribed by GW to Thomas Waleys.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.9 x 27.2 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [16]/5v: Anicij Torquati Seuerini Boecij viri nominis celebritate q[uam] memorandi: textus de ph[ilosoph]ie [con]solac[i]o[n]e [com]mentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis p[re]dicato[rum]: Anthonij Coburgers ciuis inclite Nurnbergensiu[m] vrbis industria fabrefactus finit feliciter. Anno Mcccclxxvj. p[ri]die Idus Noue[m]bris.
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰ 5⁶; 6-11¹⁰ 12⁶ 13-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16⁶]: 140 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [2]/1, [6]/1, and [16]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
The commentary is ascribed by GW to Thomas Waleys.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.9 x 27.2 cm.
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled (with tools cited in Barber, Waddesdon Manor, II: cats. 54 (attributed to Louis Redon) and 101 (attributed to Louis Douceur)) red morocco over paper boards (40 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, with red paragraph marks and capital strokes; illuminated initial with foliate border, in Mainz style with elements similar to Fust-Master (leaf [2]/2r); part II with red/blue initial with red penwork decoration (leaf [6]/2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Johannes de Cronenberg, of the Mainz, Carmelites, inscription: "Boe[thius] de [con]so[latione] fr[ater] Johannis de Cronenb[ur]g sacre theo[log]e lectoris ord[inis] ca[r]melia[rum] filii [conven]t[us] mog[untinas]" (leaf [1]/1r) and later Mainz, Carmelites inscription: "Carmeli moguntini" (leaf [1]/2r), with multiple shelfmarks, including: K. num. 26, A.n.6., F n 2, Lin.i.n.i., and Lin.9.n.i. (leaf [1]/1v); Paul Girardot de Préfond (d. about 1800), not in his 1757 sale; Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), purchase inscription, 30 Nov 1785 (front endleaf 1 recto), purchased at Payne sale, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 443 for £18.10.0; unidentified modern shelfmarks: W.I.3. (front endleaf 1 verso) and IF (rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan, purchased by 1906.
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