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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480?-524?). Consolationis Philosophiae Libri V. Leiden: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1671.
8vo (197 x 120 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved portrait, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum (covers slightly bowed, some minor soiling).
Later edition including the commentaries of Bernartius, Sitzmanus and Vallini. Few works were as influential or widely read during the Middle Ages as The Consolation of Philosophy. Brunet I:390.