Charming miniature edition (3.5x2.5" or 91x65mm) contemporary calf rebacked with newer end papers. Titlepage within decorative frame of printer's ornaments 192pp Edge repairs to last three pages thus some loss of text to a few ends/beginnings of lines. Minor edge browning and a few signs of use including old marginalia in only one case being more than the occasional word or two. *Historically important work as it formed one of the more important influences on mediaeval thought and learning. Boethius wrote this while imprisoned by Emperor Theodoric on the charge of treason. It is a dialogue between Philosophy and Boethius, in which the Queen of Sciences strives to console the fallen statesman. The main argument of the discourse is the transitoriness and unreality of all earthly greatness and the superior desirability of the things of the mind [Catholic Encylopaedia]. From a good Consular Roman family Boethius was acceptable to both Catholics and humanists and as such was widely read and studied. This edition contains a short life of Boethius by Jul(ius) Martiano Rota forming the last twelves pages of this Oxford printed volume.
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