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Incunabula: Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae. Cologne,...

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Incunabula: Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae. Cologne, 1497.Title page with large woodcut device depicting a medieval scholastic scene with a master lecturing to students. Features commentary by Thomas Aquinas. Printed in Latin by Heinrich Quentell in Cologne. The Consolation serves as a philosophical treatise written while Boethius was imprisoned in Pavia, exploring themes of the vanity of fortune, the nature of evil, and the providence of God. Presented in custon-made clamshell box.

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