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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c. 480-524)

Lot 51
09.07.2025 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 51 | BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c. 480-524)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c. 480-524)
De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 November 1476.
First edition with this commentary: according to RareBookHub, no copy of this edition complete with all blanks has previously appeared at auction. Boethius wrote De consolatione Philosophiae while in prison at Pavia, and his autobiographical desolation forms the starting point of his masterpiece. Philosophy, in allegorical female form, comes to Boethius to console him in his sorrow and to lead him to the ultimate knowledge. This work, along with others by Boethius, was the chief conduit of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought in the Middle Ages, and incorporates large parts of Plato's Timaeus. HC *3370; GW 4526; BMC II, 413; BSB B-596; Goff B-771; ISTC ib00771000.

Royal folio (388 x 274mm). 140 leaves, complete with all 5 blanks. Red painted initial opening Commentary, smaller initials in red, capital strokes in red (closed tear in opening blank strengthened, corner of [g2] restored without loss, lightly washed). 20th-century brown morocco, gilt lettered on spine (upper hinge cracked, head of spine defective, somewhat rubbed). Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead (bookplate) – Rowland Thomas Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer (1877-1953; bookplate, inscribed in upper margin with the signature of John Burns (1858-1943), English trade unionist and politician) – Clifford Rattey (bookplate) – W. Senn-Dürck, Basel-Riehen (1904-2001; booklabel); by descent.
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