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Boëthius (Rome, ca. 480 - Pavia, 525) 

Tags: Philosophy. Neo-platonism

Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinuBoethius was a philosopher, theologian, and statesman of the 6th century CE. He was born into a noble family in Rome and received a classical education in literature, philosophy, and music. He served as a consul under the Ostrogothic king Theodoric and held high positions in the Roman government.

Boethius is best known for his influential works in philosophy, including the Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote while imprisoned and facing execution on false charges of treason. In this work, he explores the nature of happiness, the problem of evil, and the role of fate in human life.

Boethius drew on classical and Christian sources to provide a synthesis of philosophy and theology that influenced medieval thought for centuries. He is considered one of the last great Roman philosophers and a key figure in the transmission of classical learning to the Middle Ages.

De institutione arithmetica. Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 20 May 1488

Arithmetica. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1521

De consolatione philosophiae. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 24 July 1473 |

De consolatione philosophiae. [Köln, Arnold Ther Hoernen, about 1475]

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Köln, Johann I Koelhoff, 25 May 1481 |

De consolatione philosophiae. Resumptio compendiosa consolationis. Louvain, Johannes de Westfalia,1484

De consolatione philosophiae. Gent, Arend de Keysere, 3 May 1485

De consolatione philosophiae. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23 June 1486 |

De consolatione philosophiae. De disciplina scholarium. Lyon, Jean Du Pré, 8 February 1487-1488

De consolatione philosophiae. Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Louvain, Johannes de Westfalia,1487

De consolatione philosophiae. Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium. Venezia, [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 24 December 1489

De consolatione philosophiae [Catalan]. Tr: Antonio Ginebreda. [Lérida, Heinrich Botel], 2 June 1489

De consolatione philosophiae. De disciplina scholarium. Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, 27 February 1490

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Add: Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium (Comm: pseudo- Thomas Aquinas). Lyon, Jean Du Pré, 22 April 1490

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Strasbourg, [Johann Prüss, before 6 March 1491]

De consolatione philosophiae. Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, 19 March 1491

De consolatione philosophiae. Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Hagenau, [Heinrich Gran], 21 February 1491

De consolatione philosophiae. Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Köln, Heinrich Quentell, 31 October 1493 |

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 8 June 1495 |

De consolatione philosophiae. Sevilla, Meinardo Ungut y Estanislao Polono, 1497

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Add: Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium (Comm: pseudo- Thomas Aquinas). Lyon, Jacobus Maillet, [about 1497-1498]

De consolatione philosophiae. Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium. Venezia, Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 14 June 1498 |

De consolatione philosophiae. De officio discipulorum. De disciplina scholarium. Lyon, Jean de Vingle, for Etienne Gueynard, 20 April 1498

De consolatione philosophiae. Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium. Venezia, Otinus de Luna, 19 July 1499

De la consolacion de la filosofia. Sevilla, Meinardo Ungut y Estanislao Polono para Guido de Lavezari y Juan de Porras y Lázaro de Gazanis, 1499

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Compendiosa consolationis resumptio. Köln, Heinrich Quentell, 2 September 1500 |

De consolatione philosophiae. [German] Der Trost der Weisheit. Strasbourg, Johann Schott, 31 August 1500 | |

De philosophico consolatum sive de consolatione philosophie: cum figuris ornatissimis noviter expolitus. [Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1501]

Boetii viri celeberrimi de consolatione philosophie liber cum optimo commento beati Thome. [Köln, Heinrich Quentel (heirs of), 1502] | |

Anitii manlii torquati boecii: alias divi seuerini philosophi: oratoris: et poete excellentissimi: rhomani quondam patricii: opus quinqua librorum de philosophica consolatione spectatissimu: et ad amussim elaboratu: iamqua recentiorilima in Lipsensi gymnasio ab innumeris mendis quibus ante maculatissimu circumferebatur purgatu: et proqua fideliter castigatu. [Leipzig, Jakob Thanner, 1505]

Duplex commentatio ex integro reposita atque recognita in Boetium, seu Boethum mavis de consolatione philosophica et de disciplina scholastica. Lyon, Claude Davost impensis Simon Vincent, 1506

Anitii manlii seuerini boetii viri clarissimi elegantissimus divisionum liber. [Leipzig, per Jakob Thanner, 1508]

Boetii qritii sanguinis viri illustris de consolatione philosophie volumina quinqque. [Leipzig, per Martin Landsberg, 1509]

Opus quinque librorum de philosopica consolatione spectatissimu: .. Ab innumeris mendis purgatum: et perqua fideliter castigatum. [Leipzig, per Jakob Thanner, 1510]

De consolatione philosophie. Paris, 1509

Boetius cum triplici commento. Consolatio philosophica et disciplina scholarium cum argutissimis commentariis adjecimus difficilium locorum explanationem. Lyon, ex calcographia Jean de La Place [et] Simon Vincent, 1512

Boetii qritii sanguinis viri illustris de consolatione philosophie volumina quinqua.[Leipzig, per Martin Landsberg, 1513] |

De philosophiae consolatione. Firenze, 1513

Seuerini boethii de consolatione philosophie libri quinqque. Cum proclaris Joannis Murmellii commentariis. Cuqua Rodolphi agricole phrisii et Augustini dathi .in boethii partem enarratione. Köln, [in officina Heinrich Quentel (heirs of)], 1516 |

De consolatione philosophiae liber. Epistola ad lectorem, cum authoris vita. Quae de boetianis carminibus tradidit Nicolaus perottus. Centrimetrum seruii grammatici. Quot metrorum generibus, et quoties singulis sit usus boetius. Basel, [in aedibus Thomas Wolff, 1522]

Di consolatione philosophica volgare. Venezia, 1527

De consolatione philosophiae. Köln , 1535

De conforti filosofici. Venezia, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrara, 1563

Vande vertroosting der wysheyd. Leiden, Christophe Plantin, 1585 (Google)

De consolacion. Valladolid, por Juan del Bostillo vendese en casa de Antonio Coello, 1604 |

De Consolatione Philosophiae Libri V. , nunc denuo Variis lectionibus [et] Notis illustrati A Theodoro Sitzmano, Thuringo Quibus subiunctus [et] Theodori Pulmani de Metris Boethianis libellus. Hanau, typis Andre as Wechel (heirs of), apud Claude de Marne [et] Johann Aubry (I, heirs of), 1607 |

De consolatione philosophiae libri V. Amsterdam, 1631 |

Consolationes: philosophica. Jena 1639

Troost-medecijne-wynckel der zedighe wysheyt. Brugge, 1653

Consolationis philosophiae libri V. Oxford, 1698

Consolationis philosophiae libri V. Leiden, 1671 | |

De trinitate. Utrum pater et filius. Quomodo substantiae bonae sint. [Venezia, Paganinus de Paganinis, about 1489]

Opera. Venezia, Johannes de Gregoriis, and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1491-1492

Opera. Venezia, Johannes de Gregoriis, and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1497-1499 | |

Opera, Basel, Henricpetri, 1570 |

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