Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland (GB)
: Inc.289
ISTC No.ib00779000
AuthorBoethius
TitleDe consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Add: Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium (Comm: pseudo- Thomas Aquinas)
Imprint[Lyons : Guillaume Le Roy], 1484-85
Formatf°
Languagelat
SubjectPhilosophy
KeywordsEducation; Theology-moral; Theology-moral; Commentary; Collection
Periodpatristic
Description of Copy
Copy Id02128180
Holding InstitutionEdinburgh, National Library of Scotland (GB)
ShelfmarkInc.289
Also bound with this copyPetrus Brantschen: [A Collection of Engravings of the Arms of Churches, Monasteries and Church Dignitaries of the Diocese of Sitten]. - Fribourg : Guillaume Maess, 1603
Josse Clichetove: Propugnaculum Ecclesiae. - Paris : Simon de Colines, 1526
NoteCreated by Angeline Rais
Physical DescriptionBound first in the volume. Clichtove's work bound second. Brantschen's work bound third.
Copy FeaturesIncomplete
Copy Features - NotePart I only, lacks a1 and x8 (both blank), gathering x (tabula) is bound at the beginning of the text
Support material (book)Paper
SourceBeattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland, p. 191
Provenance
1490
PlaceMarsens (Geonames ID: 2659755)
Areae-sz
Time period - 1490
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn v8v: inscription ‘Iste liber est d[omi]no fratri Johanni michaelis Religioso Humilismo[n]tis alias de m[ar]sens ordinis premonstratensis’ followed by his signature in black ink.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1490 -
1580
PlaceMarsens (Geonames ID: 2659755)
Areae-sz
Time period1490 - 1580
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteMichaelis probably gave this book to the Abbey.
Method of acquisitionDonation
Decoration NoteThroughout the text: initials, capital letters and paragraph marks in red ink
RubricationYes
Manuscript notesThroughout the text: pagination in red ink
Location in BookThroughout
Historic ShelfmarkOn v8v: shelfmark ‘C. 68’ in red ink. (Shelfmark pattern No.: 12)
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1582 -
1823
PlaceFribourg (Geonames ID: 2660718)
Areae-sz
Time period1582 - 1823
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
Documentary Evidence
NoteIn 1580, Humilimont Abbey was suppressed and its library was then transferred to the College of the Jesuits of Fribourg (see HS, A.-J. Marquis, Le Collège Saint- Michel Fribourg (Suisse), sa fondation et ses débuts, 1579-1597 (Fribourg, Saint-Paul, 1969), pp. 86-87). This book is recorded in the first catalogue of the Jesuits' library. For this, see Fribourg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Ms. L 560, fol. 16r. On fols x1r and a1r (item 2): inscriptions ‘Societatis Jesu Friburgi’ in black ink.
Method of acquisitionInstitutional transfer
Manuscript notesThroughout this item and at the beginning of item 2: occasional mss comments in black ink; on fols II and IX of item 3: mss comments reporting mistakes in black ink
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookThroughout
CommentsYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Library catalogue
Documentary source
Provenance
1823 -
1872
PlaceBroadway (Geonames ID: 2654628)
Note on provenance placeIn Middle Hill estate near Broadway until 1863 when he moved to Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham.
Areae-uk-en
Time period1823 - 1872
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
Documentary Evidence
NotePhillipps bought this book from the Jesuits of Fribourg in January 1823 through the bookseller Jean A. Lamy (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, c. 413, fols 11r and 16r for Lamy's bills). He recorded the purchase in a list headed ‘Empti de Collegio Jesuitarum apud Friburgi in Helvetia (vide priores)’ as 'Boethius de Philosphia no date' (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, f. 72, fol. 8v). He catalogued this copy in his ‘Catalogue of Printed Books’ (Middle Hill, 1824): Books from Berne – 6 boxes, in box 5: 'Boethius de Consolatione, per St. T. Aquinas, cum aliis.', p. 2 and in his ‘Catalogue of Printed Books at Middle Hill’ (Middle Hill, 1828): ‘[no.] 489 [Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae] per S. T. Aquinascum aliis.’, p. 7. Upper pastedown: inventory number(?) ‘771’ in pencil.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Binding noteRebound by Bretherton: half-calf binding over pasteboards. Paper pastedowns and endleaves. Red sprinkled edges. Upper pastedown: label with ‘BRETHETON, ligavit 1850’ printed in black ink. Spine: gold-tooled ‘BOETII CONSOLATIO PHILOSOPHIAE’.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialMixed
FurnitureNo
Binding statusRebound
Binding Dimensions300 × 195 × 60 mm
TitlingTooled
EdgesColoured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Library catalogue
Documentary source
Provenance
1885 -
PlaceCheltenham (Geonames ID: 2653261)
Areae-uk
Time period1885 -
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteFenwick, Phillipps's grandson, inherited the Phillipps library and started to sell it from 1885 onwards. See A.N.L. Munby, Phillipps studies 5 (Cambridge, CUP, 1960), pp. 14-21. Probably auctioned as lot 126, but has not been identified in a Sotheby’s catalogue of the Bibliotheca Phillippica published before 1943. Bookseller's or auction catalogue cutting on front pastedown in which this book is lot 126.
Method of acquisitionBequest
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Library catalogue
Provenance
1943
PlaceCrathie
Areae-uk-st
Time period - 1943
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteSee below.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Library catalogue
Provenance
1943 -
PlaceEdinburgh (Geonames ID: 2650225)
Areae-uk-st
Time period1943 -
Provenance TypeStamp
Manuscript Notes
NoteGiven by Stirton. Upper pastedown: bibliographical information and references to catalogues in pencil, label with ‘NATIONAL LIBRARY | OF SCOTLAND | EDINBURGH’ printed in black ink and shelfmark ‘Inc. 2056[obliterated] 289’ in pencil; upper endleaf v: inscription ‘Presented 31 Dec. 1943’ and ‘Part of Gesamtkatalog 4535 without the blank leaves’. On fols x1r and v8v, a1r and B9v (item 2) and 10v (item 3): round stamps with ‘NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND’ in black ink
Method of acquisitionDonation
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Library catalogue
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
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