Fiue bookes, of philosophicall comfort, full of Christian consolation, written a 1000. yeeres since / by Anitius, Manlius, Torquatus, Seuerinus, Boetius, a Christian consul of Rome ; newly trauslated out of Latine, together with marginall notes, explaining the obscurest places.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boethius, -524.

Contributor:

Walpole, Michael, 1570-1624?

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De consolatione philosophiae. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and religion--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy and religion.

Happiness--Early works to 1800.

Happiness.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 144 leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Boetius His philosophicall comfort

Five bookes, of philosophicall comfort, full of Christian consolation

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Iohn Windet for Mathew Lownes, 1609.

Notes:

Translator's dedication to the Countess of Dorset signed "I.T." [really Michael Walpole. Cf. STC (2nd ed.)].

Signatures: A-T⁸.

Foliation irregular: leaves 4, 5, 6, 7, 85, 87 numbered 5, 4, 7, 6, 87, 85 respectively; no. 3 repeated, no. 8 omitted.

Woodcuts: text and t.p. within border; initials; head-pieces.

First leaf ruled and signed; otherwise blank.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 3202

ESTC S102854

OCLC:

57393746