Severini Boetii De philosophiae consolatione. Eivsdem De scholastica disciplina, qvi alii qvoqve avtori à nonnvllis adscribitvr

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Lot #37Severini Boetii De philosophiae consolatione. Eivsdem De scholastica disciplina, qvi alii qvoqve avtori à nonnvllis adscribitvr

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Title:

Severini Boetii De philosophiae consolatione. Eivsdem De scholastica disciplina, qvi alii qvoqve avtori à nonnvllis adscribitvr

Author:

Boethius; Nicolaus Crescius

Place Published:

Venetiis

Publisher:

Per Melchiorem Sessam & Petrum de Rauanis Socios

Date Published:

1522

Description:

80 leaves (a-i8, K8). Woodcut initials. (8vo) 14.5x9.5 cm. (5¾x3¾"), modern vellum.

Scarce little edition of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues written while he was imprisoned awaiting execution on the orders of King Theodoric the Great. The Consolation became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages. OCLC/WorldCat list only 6 copies of this edition.

Condition:

Title-page with some soiling and repairs to wormholes, old ink notation; marginal repairs to following leaf; very good.

Item#:

213660

Headline:

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy 1522
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