Title from incipit, leaf [2]/1r: Anitẏ Manlẏ Torquati Seuerini Boetẏ ordinarẏ patritẏ iuri exconsulis de consolatione philosophie liber primus incipit. Metrum primum eroicum elegiacum.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [22]/4v: Hic liber Beocii de [con]solatione philosophie in textu latina alemanica[que] lingua refertus ac translat[us] vna cu[m] apparatu & expositione beati Thome de aquino ordinis predicatorum finit feliciter. Anno domini M.CCCC.lxxiij. xxiiij. mensis Julẏ. Condidit hoc Civis alu[m]nis Nurembergensis Opus arte sua Antonius Coburger.
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2⁸ 3-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁸; 12-17¹⁰ 18⁶ 19-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22⁶]: 200 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [22]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
With the commentary of Thomas Waleys, erroneously attributed to Thomas Aquinas (GW). The attribution of the translation to Peter von Kastel is now confutable (cf Verfasserlexikon I, p. 921 in CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.9 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/1 and [22]/5-6 (blanks); bottom margin of leaf [2]/1 cut away and repaired.
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks; illuminated initial with painted foliate border and flourished byzants (leaf [2]/1r); part II with red/blue initial with penword decoration (leaf [12]/1r). Annotations: Contemporary Latin marginal notations in at least two hands throughout text, including extensive interlinear notes in Latin text.