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BOETHIUS, ANICIUS MANLIUS TORQUATUS SEVERINUS. De consolatione philosophiae. With commentary attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, and Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. [190] leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 190x136 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with roll border of running stags around center panel containing twin vertical impressions of text roll reading 'Miserere Mei O Mater Dei,' spine in 3 compartments, each with intersecting diagonal triple fillets filled in with fleurs-de-lis, lacking catches and clasps; title soiled, occasional marginal foxing, light dampstaining toward end, early signatures and inscriptions on endpapers. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Lansdowne. (Strassburg): [Johann Pruess, before 6 March 1491]
