Boeçio de consolaçio[ne] tornado de latin en romançe por el muy reuere[n]do padre fray Ant[oni]o ginebreda maestro en la sa[nc]ta theologia dela orde[n] delos pedricadores de barçelona.

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Accession number: 
PML 27332
Author: 
Boethius, -524.
Published: 
Inpressa en Tolosa : por maestro Enrique Mayer, a quatro dias del mes del Julio...de Mill e quatroçientos et ochenta e aocho años [4 July 1488].
Description: 
[10] iii-lxxiiii [2] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1930.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf l/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf k4v: Aqui feneçe el libro de consolaçion de Beoçio/ el qual fui inpresso en Tolosa de françia/ por maestro Enrique mayer aliman/ e acabose a quatro dias del mes del Julio. Año del nasçiminto de n[ost]ro señor ih[es]u [christ]o/ de Mill/ e quatroçientos/ et ochenta/ e aocho años.
Printed in Mayer's types 3:71G (in woodcut), 4:135G, and 5:116G.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Signatures: 1⁸ a-h⁸ i-k⁶: 84 leaves, leaf k6 blank. GW records variant (or incorrect) signatures and foliation: 1⁸ a-h⁸ i⁶ k⁴: 82 leaves; Gez. [19] iii-lxxiiij.
Translated from the Catalan version of Antonio Ginebreda.
1 woodcut, leaf a1v.
Capital spaces with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20.2 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary Iberian (or Toulouse?) black blind-stamped goatskin over wooden boards (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Vellum manuscript leaves as pastedowns, with plain paper endleaves. Two clasps, missing. In slipcase by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Pen trials, including inscriptions: "in medio omnis terre," "in medio orbis terrarum," and "boecio de co[n]ssolac[i]ao" (front pastedown and front endleaf 1 recto) and "Do[m] manuell p[er] graca de d[eos] Rey de portugal," Manuel I was King of Portugal 1495-1521 (rear pastedown).

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gabriel Wells, March 1930.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Genres: 
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books