[a2r] Boethius: Topica [Also known as De differentiis topicis]. ‘Anitii Mallii Severini Boethii viri clarissimi Topicorum liber primus.’ Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ratio disserendi, quam logicem peripatetici veteres appellaverunt ...’ [d8v] Explicit: ‘... quos in Aristotilis topica a nobis translata conscripsimus expeditum est.’ ‘Boetii viri clarissimi Topicorum libellus explicitus.’ See B‑382.
[e1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica. ‘M.T.C. viri aeloquentissimi in Topica ad Trebatium textus sequitur.’ Incipit: ‘[M]aiores nos rescribere ingressos C. Trebati, et hiis libris quos brevi tempore ...’ [f4r] Explicit: ‘... quod quasi mancipio dare debuimus, ornamenta quaedam voluimus non debita accedere.’ ‘Finis Topicae.’ Cic. Top.
[f4v] Boethius: [Preface] In Ciceronis Topica commentum [addressed to] Patricius. ‘Anitii Manlii Severini Boethii viri clarissimi et illustris. ex consulum ordine ad Patricium in Topica Ciceronis comentum.’ Incipit: ‘[E]xhortatione tua, Patrici, rhetorum peritissime, quae et presentis honestate propositi ...’ [f6v] Explicit: ‘... Nam nec in singulis, ut ille facit, verbis haerere volumus, et ad ampliora huius operis festinamus.’ See B‑382.
[f6v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica. ‘Textus.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um omnis ratio diligens disserendi duas habeat partes ...’ [r3v] Explicit: ‘... hi qui consulunt, et hi qui defendunt; at quod primum est quod sequitur igitur.’
[f6v] Boethius: In Ciceronis Topica commentum. ‘Commentum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um philosophia maximis in rebus operam suam sudiumque consumat ...’ [r5v] Explicit: ‘... que concurrentia fidem facerent preditionis talis etiam fortuitarum rerum concursio est.’
[r3v] Colophon: ‘Anitii Manlii Severini Boetii V.C. et illustriss. ex consulum ordine comentarium in Martii Tullii Ciceronis librum Topicorum, explicitum et impressum per dominum Oliverium Servium de Tholentino, anno Domini Millesimoquadringentesimooctuagesimoquarto, die vero vigesima mensis Februarii.’
[r4r] [Printer's register]. ‘Registrum huius libri.’
Imprint:
[Rome]
Oliverius Servius
Folio
For the ascription to [Johannes Schoemberger, for Oliverius Servius], see BMC IV 132, note.
Secundo folio: [a3r] quis ita proponat
20 Feb. 1484.
Collation:
[a–d8 e6 f–l8 m–q6 r4]. Collation as BMC and Sheppard. Woodcut initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib00829000
HC 3429;
Goff B‑829;
BMC IV 130, 133;
GW 4587;
Pr 3960;
Sheppard 3134.
LCN: 13960940
Copies:
B-411(1)
Copy
Binding: Old parchment; two ties lost.
Size: 294 × 223 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 288 × 208 mm.
Early marginal notes and pointing hands in both red and black ink.
Paragraph marks are supplied in red ink. Running headings supplied irregularly in black ink. Irregular manuscript foliation in black ink. Title, ‘Boetius in Topica', in black ink on lower edge of leaves.
Provenance: Two shelfmarks on pastedown: ‘T‑3' and ‘G.3'.
Purchased from Albert Cohn, Catalogue 212, no. 12, for 75 Marks; see Library Bills, 30 Nov. 1896.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. d. I98.1484.1.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I2.1484.1.
