![BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-c.524). De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. [Lyons: Guillaume Le Roy, before 30 April 1489, c.1485].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0074_001(boethius_anicius_manlius_torquatus_severinus_de_consolatione_philosoph054554).jpg?w=1)
![BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-c.524). De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. [Lyons: Guillaume Le Roy, before 30 April 1489, c.1485].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0074_000(boethius_anicius_manlius_torquatus_severinus_de_consolatione_philosoph072444).jpg?w=1)
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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-c.524). De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. [Lyons: Guillaume Le Roy, before 30 April 1489, c.1485].
An uncommon edition of the Consolation of Philosophy, a major conduit of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought in the middle ages. Written in prose and verse while Boethius was in prison at Pavia on charges of treachery, it consists of a dialogue between Boethius and Philosophy, who has come to console the author in his autobiographical desolation. RBH/ABPC record no copies of this edition at auction; ISTC lists 11 copies in institutions: no copy at the BL or BSB. GW 4543; CIBN B-570 (dating it to c.1485); ISTC ib00785500; Goff Suppl. B-785a.
Chancery folio (305 x 212mm). 166 leaves (of 168, without both blanks), text with surrounding commentary, 3 large initials in red and blue with penwork extensions in the border, other initials in red and blue (occasional faint staining at extreme margins, some small wormholes). Contemporary French blindstamped calf over wooden boards (lacking clasps, head and foot of spine and corners restored, endpapers renewed). Provenance: ‘RDvS’ (early inscription on a2) – a few words struck through in ink on d1.
An uncommon edition of the Consolation of Philosophy, a major conduit of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought in the middle ages. Written in prose and verse while Boethius was in prison at Pavia on charges of treachery, it consists of a dialogue between Boethius and Philosophy, who has come to console the author in his autobiographical desolation. RBH/ABPC record no copies of this edition at auction; ISTC lists 11 copies in institutions: no copy at the BL or BSB. GW 4543; CIBN B-570 (dating it to c.1485); ISTC ib00785500; Goff Suppl. B-785a.
Chancery folio (305 x 212mm). 166 leaves (of 168, without both blanks), text with surrounding commentary, 3 large initials in red and blue with penwork extensions in the border, other initials in red and blue (occasional faint staining at extreme margins, some small wormholes). Contemporary French blindstamped calf over wooden boards (lacking clasps, head and foot of spine and corners restored, endpapers renewed). Provenance: ‘RDvS’ (early inscription on a2) – a few words struck through in ink on d1.
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