BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-c.524). Libri dialectici. Venice: Joannus Gryphius, 1546. 2° (303 x 210mm). With the final blank. Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and diagrams. (Ownership inscription excised from title, faint waterstaining at end.) Contemporary North Italian [? Bologna] brown morocco over pasteboard, a wide decorative blindstamped border, gilt arms with initials MC and 8 gilt fleurons on sides added later, probably in Germany (arms expunged from lower cover, some scuff marks, rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped, lacks yellow silk ties). Provenance: 'MC' (binding).
An early separate edition of the Dialectica by Boethius, the chief minister of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic King of Italy, but garotted by him after a dubious trial, and regretted by the king ever after. This edition not in Adams.
BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c.480-c.524). Libri dialectici. Venice: Joannus Gryphius, 1546. 2° (303 x 210mm). With the final blank. Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and diagrams. (Ownership inscription excised from title, faint waterstaining at end.) Contemporary North Italian [? Bologna] brown morocco over pasteboard, a wide decorative blindstamped border, gilt arms with initials MC and 8 gilt fleurons on sides added later, probably in Germany (arms expunged from lower cover, some scuff marks, rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped, lacks yellow silk ties). Provenance: 'MC' (binding).
An early separate edition of the Dialectica by Boethius, the chief minister of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic King of Italy, but garotted by him after a dubious trial, and regretted by the king ever after. This edition not in Adams.
